9-letter words starting with at
- atom trap — a device in which atoms or particles are slowed by the use of lasers and then confined to a small region of space.
- atom-bomb — to bomb (a target) with an atomic bomb.
- atomicity — the state of being made up of atoms
- atomistic — of atoms or atomism
- atomizers — Plural form of atomizer.
- atomizing — Present participle of atomize.
- atomology — (dated) The doctrine of atoms.
- atonalism — atonality.
- atonalist — a composer who composes without knowingly or being aware of alluding to a particular tone or scale
- atonality — absence of or disregard for an established musical key in a composition
- atonement — If you do something as an atonement for doing something wrong, you do it to show that you are sorry.
- atonicity — lack of tone; atony.
- atoningly — in an expiating manner
- atrahasis — a legendary Akkadian sage who built a boat in which he and his family, servants, and chattels escaped the Deluge.
- atriotomy — (medicine) The surgical opening of an atrium.
- atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- att. gen. — Attorney General
- attaching — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- attack ad — a public notice, such as a printed display or a short film on television, in which a political party criticizes or abuses an opponent
- attackers — Plural form of attacker.
- attacking — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
- attackman — a player whose primary role is to attack
- attainder — (formerly) the extinction of a person's civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felony
- attainers — Plural form of attainer.
- attaining — to reach, achieve, or accomplish; gain; obtain: to attain one's goals.
- attainted — Law. to condemn by a sentence or a bill or act of attainder.
- attalus i — (Soter) king of Pergamum 241–197 b.c.
- attempted — An attempted crime or unlawful action is an unsuccessful effort to commit the crime or action.
- attempter — One who attempts.
- attenable — Alternative form of attainable.
- attendant — An attendant is someone whose job is to serve or help people in a place such as a petrol station, a car park, or a cloakroom.
- attendees — a person who is present at a specific time or place: a conference with thousands of attendees.
- attenders — Plural form of attender.
- attendeth — Archaic third-person singular form of attend.
- attending — having primary responsibility for a patient.
- attention — If you give someone or something your attention, you look at it, listen to it, or think about it carefully.
- attentive — If you are attentive, you are paying close attention to what is being said or done.
- attenuant — causing dilution or thinness, esp of the blood
- attenuate — To attenuate something means to reduce it or weaken it.
- attesting — to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.
- attingent — touching; in contact.
- attitudes — Plural form of attitude.
- attleboro — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- attolaser — a high-power laser capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
- attollent — (of muscle action) lifting up or raising
- attorneys — Plural form of attorney.
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- attotesla — one-quintillionth (10 -18) of a tesla. Abbreviation: aT.