9-letter words that end in te
- aulophyte — a free-living plant growing on or in another plant.
- auspicate — to begin or inaugurate with a ceremony intended to bring good fortune
- austenite — a solid solution of carbon in face-centred-cubic gamma iron, usually existing above 723°C
- austinite — (rare, mineral) A secondary mineral found in the oxidized zone of some arsenic-rich base-metal deposits.
- autophyte — an autotrophic plant, such as any green plant
- autoroute — a French motorway
- aydelotte — Frank, 1880–1956, U.S. educator.
- babacoote — a species of large lemur, Lichanotus brevicaudatus, native to Madagascar
- bacchante — a priestess or female votary of Bacchus
- backplate — a plate of armour which guards the back
- bad taste — lack of discernment
- baleboste — a capable, efficient housewife, especially a traditional Jewish one, devoted to maintaining a well-run home.
- bank note — a promissory note issued by a bank, payable on demand: it is a form of paper money
- bank rate — The bank rate is the rate of interest at which a bank lends money, especially the minimum rate of interest that banks are allowed to charge, which is decided from time to time by the country's central bank.
- banquette — A banquette is a long, low, cushioned seat. Banquettes are usually long enough for more than one person to sit on at a time.
- barberite — an alloy of about 88 percent copper, 5 percent nickel, 5 percent tin, and 2 percent silicon, resistant to sea water and sulfuric acid.
- barquette — a boat-shaped pastry shell
- base rate — In Britain, the base rate is the rate of interest that banks use as a basis when they are calculating the rates that they charge on loans.
- baseplate — a flat supporting plate or frame at the base of a column, designed to distribute the column's weight over a greater area and provide increased stability
- bassanite — (mineral) A saline evaporite, consisting of calcium sulphate, found at Vesuvius.
- batchmate — (India) classmate.
- batholite — (obsolete) alternative name of batholith.
- baud rate — a rate of data transmission measured in baud
- bay state — Massachusetts
- bedlamite — a lunatic; insane person
- belafonte — Harry, born 1922, U.S. singer and actor.
- belemnite — any extinct marine cephalopod mollusc of the order Belemnoidea, related to the cuttlefish
- benitoite — a rare mineral, barium titanium silicate, BaTiSi 3 O 9 , occurring in blue hexagonal crystals exhibiting dichroism.
- bentonite — a valuable clay, formed by the decomposition of volcanic ash, that swells as it absorbs water: used as a filler in the building, paper, and pharmaceutical industries
- biathlete — an athlete taking part in a biathlon
- bicaudate — having two tails or taillike appendages.
- bidentate — having two teeth or toothlike parts or processes
- bifoliate — having only two leaves
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- big skate — See under skate2 .
- bigotgate — an incident in the 2010 British general election in which the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, described in private a voter he had met as a ‘bigoted woman’ not realizing that his radio microphone was still on and that his comments were being recorded
- bilabiate — divided into two lips
- bilineate — marked with two usually parallel lines.
- binervate — (of leaves) having two longitudinal ribs
- biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
- bipartite — consisting of or having two parts
- bipinnate — (of pinnate leaves) having the leaflets themselves divided into smaller leaflets
- birthdate — Your birthdate is the same as your date of birth.
- birthrate — the number of births per year per thousand of population in a given community, area, or group: sometimes other units of time or population are used
- biseriate — (of plant parts, such as petals) arranged in two whorls, cycles, rows, or series
- biserrate — (of leaf margins, etc) having serrations that are themselves serrate
- bismutite — a mineral, bismuth carbonate, resulting from the alteration of bismuth minerals: a minor source of bismuth.
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bisulfite — an acid sulfite containing the monovalent negative radical HSO3