10-letter words containing a, b, i, n
- absumption — (obsolete) Gradual destruction or disintegration; wasting away.
- abu hanifa — a.d. 699–767, Islamic scholar and founder of one of the schools of Islamic law.
- abyssinian — a native or inhabitant of Abyssinia
- accubation — the action or state of leaning backwards, esp at a table for meals
- acerbating — Present participle of acerbate.
- acerbation — (rare) Bitterness of feeling.
- actionable — If something that you do or say to someone is actionable, it gives them a valid reason for bringing a legal case against you.
- actionably — In an actionable manner.
- afterbrain — metencephalon (sense 1)
- aktyubinsk — city in W Kazakhstan: pop. 248,000
- al-battani — Battani.
- alabandite — a mineral form of manganese sulphide (MnS) with cubic crystals
- albigenses — members of a Manichean sect that flourished in S France from the 11th to the 13th century
- albinistic — Of or pertaining to albinism.
- albondigas — Small meatballs, prepared in the Mexican, Spanish, or South American way.
- albumenize — to coat with a solution containing albumen or albumin
- albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
- albuminate — any of several substances formed from albumin by the action of acid or alkali
- albuminize — to convert into albumin
- albuminoid — resembling albumin
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- albuminous — of or containing albumin
- alice band — an ornamental band worn across the front of the hair to hold it back from the face
- ambiophony — the reproduction of sound to create an illusion to a listener of being in a spacious room, such as a concert hall
- ambisonics — the technique of reproducing and transmitting surround sound
- ambitioned — sought after, desired
- ambivalent — If you say that someone is ambivalent about something, they seem to be uncertain whether they really want it, or whether they really approve of it.
- ambulating — Present participle of ambulate.
- ambulation — to walk about or move from place to place.
- amphibians — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Amphibia, comprising frogs and toads, newts and salamanders, and caecilians, the larvae being typically aquatic, breathing by gills, and the adults being typically semiterrestrial, breathing by lungs and through the moist, glandular skin.
- anabaptise — to rebaptise
- anabaptism — a member of any of various Protestant sects, formed in Europe after 1520, that denied the validity of infant baptism, baptized believers only, and advocated social and economic reforms as well as the complete separation of church and state.
- anabaptist — a member of any of various 16th-century Protestant movements that rejected infant baptism, insisted that adults be rebaptized, and sought to establish Christian communism
- anabaptize — to baptize again
- anaerobies — (biology) anaerobes.
- anaerobium — anaerobe
- angioblast — one of several mesenchymal cells capable of developing into the endothelium of the blood vessels.
- angwantibo — a rare gold-coloured prosimian primate of tropical Africa, Arctocebus calabarensis, having digits that are specialized as a pair of pincers for climbing: family Lorisidae (lorises)
- anti-labor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- antibaryon — the antiparticle of any of the baryons
- antibiosis — an association between two organisms, esp microorganisms, that is harmful to one of them
- antibiotic — Antibiotics are medical drugs used to kill bacteria and treat infections.
- antibodies — any of numerous Y -shaped protein molecules produced by B cells as a primary immune defense, each molecule and its clones having a unique binding site that can combine with the complementary site of a foreign antigen, as on a virus or bacterium, thereby disabling the antigen and signaling other immune defenses. Abbreviation: Ab.
- antibusing — opposed to busing, the policy of transporting students to faraway schools in order to achieve racial balance within the public education system
- antifebrin — acetanilide.
- antirabies — acting against or preventing rabies
- arbutamine — Lb pharmaceutical drug A cardiac stimulant drug.
- ascendible — Capable of being ascended; climbable.
- asking bid — a conventional bid by which a bidder asks for specific information about the strength of his or her partner's hand in a given suit.
- assembling — to bring together or gather into one place, company, body, or whole.