10-letter words containing a, b, i
- ambidexter — someone who is ambidextrous
- ambilevous — (rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
- ambiophony — the reproduction of sound to create an illusion to a listener of being in a spacious room, such as a concert hall
- ambisexual — relating to or affecting both the male and female sexes
- 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.
- ambystomid — Also called mole salamander. any of various small- to moderate-sized salamanders of the genus Ambystoma, terrestrial or semiaquatic, inhabiting North America from New England to Florida and westward to Texas.
- ametabolic — (of certain insects) having no obvious metamorphosis
- amiability — Amiability is the quality of being friendly and pleasant.
- amoebalike — Having the characteristics of an amoeba.
- amoebiasis — infection, esp of the intestines, caused by the parasitic amoeba Endamoeba histolytica
- amoebiform — resembling, shaped, or changing in shape like an amoeba
- 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.
- amphibious — In an amphibious military operation, army and navy forces attack a place from the sea.
- amphibolic — equivocal; uncertain; changing; ambiguous.
- amphibrach — a metrical foot consisting of a long syllable between two short syllables (◡ – ◡)
- 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
- applicable — Something that is applicable to a particular situation is relevant to it or can be applied to it.
- applicably — applying or capable of being applied; relevant; suitable; appropriate: an applicable rule; a solution that is applicable to the problem.
- aquabatics — gymnastic feats performed in water
- aquaphobia — an abnormal fear of water, esp because of the possibility of drowning
- aquaphobic — abnormally afraid of water
- arbitrable — that can be arbitrated; subject to arbitration
- arbitraged — Simple past tense and past participle of arbitrage.
- arbitrager — In finance, an arbitrager is someone who buys currencies, securities, or commodities on one country's market in order to make money by immediately selling them at a profit on another country's market.
- arbitrages — Plural form of arbitrage.
- arbitrated — to decide as arbitrator or arbiter; determine.
- arbitrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arbitrate.
- arbitrator — a person selected to judge a dispute; arbiter, esp. one, as in collective bargaining negotiations, named with the consent of both sides
- arboriform — Resembling a tree in shape or appearance.
- arborvitae — any of a number of N. American or Far Eastern evergreen conifers, belonging chiefly to the genus Thuja
- arbutamine — Lb pharmaceutical drug A cardiac stimulant drug.