10-letter words containing a, b, t
- amoebocyte — any cell having properties similar to an amoeba, such as shape, mobility, and ability to engulf particles
- 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
- analphabet — an illiterate person unfamiliar with the letters of the alphabet
- 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)
- ankle boot — a boot that extends up as far as the ankle
- antebellum — of or during the period before a war, esp the American Civil War
- antenumber — a number that immediately precedes another: Three is the antenumber of four.
- 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
- approbated — Simple past tense and past participle of approbate.
- aquabatics — gymnastic feats performed in water
- arbalester — a soldier carrying an arbalest
- 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
- arboretums — Plural form of arboretum.
- 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.
- archiblast — egg protoplasm
- arcubalist — an arbalest
- arrestable — An arrestable offence is an offence that you can be arrested for.
- arse about — to play the fool; act stupidly, esp in an irritating manner
- asbestosis — inflammation of the lungs resulting from chronic inhalation of asbestos particles
- ascerbated — Simple past tense and past participle of ascerbate.
- ascorbates — Plural form of ascorbate.
- aspectable — having the ability to be seen
- assertable — having the ability to be affirmed or professed or deserving of affirmation
- assibilate — (of a speech sound) to be changed into a sibilant
- astarboard — to or from the starboard side
- astrobleme — a mark on the earth's surface, usually circular, formed by a large ancient meteorite impact
- astrolabes — Plural form of astrolabe.
- at liberty — free, unoccupied, or unrestricted
- athabascan — a family of languages spoken by American Indians in most of inland northwest Canada and Alaska, in coastal Oregon and California, and in Arizona and the Rio Grande basin, and including especially Navajo, Apache, and Chipewyan. Compare family (def 14).
- athabaskan — a family of North American Indian languages, including Chipewyan, Hupa, and Navajo
- atrabiliar — (obsolete) melancholy; atrabilious.
- attachable — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.