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10-letter words containing a, c, d, e

  • ad-hockery — reliance on temporary solutions rather than on consistent, long-term plans.
  • addictives — Plural form of addictive.
  • adenectomy — surgical removal of a gland
  • adequacies — Plural form of adequacy.
  • adherences — Plural form of adherence.
  • adipocytes — Plural form of adipocyte.
  • adjacently — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
  • adjectival — Adjectival means relating to adjectives or like an adjective.
  • adjectives — Grammar. any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying, as wise in a wise grandmother, or perfect in a perfect score, or handsome in He is extremely handsome. Other terms, as numbers (one cup; twelve months), certain demonstrative pronouns (this magazine; those questions), and terms that impose limits (each person; no mercy) can also function adjectivally, as can some nouns that are found chiefly in fixed phrases where they immediately precede the noun they modify, as bottle in bottle cap and bus in bus station. Synonyms: modifier, qualifier, identifier, describer, describing word.
  • adjudicate — If you adjudicate on a dispute or problem, you make an official judgment or decision about it.
  • adjunctive — that constitutes an adjunct
  • admiraunce — admirance
  • admittance — Admittance is the act of entering a place or institution or the right to enter it.
  • adolescent — Adolescent is used to describe young people who are no longer children but who have not yet become adults. It also refers to their behaviour.
  • adrenergic — releasing or activated by adrenaline or an adrenaline-like substance
  • advertence — heedfulness or attentiveness
  • advertency — the state or quality of being advertent.
  • advocacies — the act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending; active espousal: He was known for his advocacy of states' rights.
  • advocaters — Plural form of advocater.
  • advocative — characterized by advocating
  • affectedly — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
  • affordance — A potential action that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
  • africander — one of a breed of red beef cattle, raised originally in southern Africa, well adapted to high temperatures.
  • afterdecks — Plural form of afterdeck.
  • aid agency — an organization that gives money, equipment, or services to people who need them but who cannot provide them for themselves
  • aiken code — (data)   An alternative form of the Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) system for encoding numbers. Where BCD encodes each decimal digit in normal binary, Aiken code uses the encoding shown below. This is supposed to be less prone to corruption. The following table shows the encoding of each decimal digit, D, in BCD and Aiken code: D BCD Aiken 0 0000 0000 1 0001 0001 2 0010 0010 3 0011 0011 4 0100 0100 5 0101 1011 (inverted 4) 6 0110 1100 (inverted 3) 7 0111 1101 (inverted 2) 8 1000 1110 (inverted 1) 9 1001 1111 (inverted 0) The Aiken code was probably designed by Howard Aiken in the 1940s or 1950s for use in data transmission. Compare: Gray code.
  • air-cooled — An air-cooled engine is prevented from getting too hot when it is running by cool air that passes over it, rather than being cooled by a liquid.
  • alchemized — Simple past tense and past participle of alchemize.
  • alcibiades — 450–404 bc, Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War: brilliant, courageous, and unstable, he defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the Athenian victories at Abydos (411) and Cyzicus (410)
  • aldermanic — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
  • alice band — an ornamental band worn across the front of the hair to hold it back from the face
  • allowanced — Simple past tense and past participle of allowance.
  • ambuscaded — Simple past tense and past participle of ambuscade.
  • ambuscader — a person waiting in ambush; an ambusher
  • ambuscades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambuscade.
  • anchor bed — a sloping, slightly projecting platform on the forecastle of a ship, for supporting an anchor when not in use.
  • anderlecht — a town in central Belgium, a suburb of Brussels. Pop: 92 755 (2004 est)
  • androecium — the stamens of a flowering plant collectively
  • androgenic — any substance, as testosterone or androsterone, that promotes male characteristics.
  • andromache — the wife of Hector
  • anecdotage — anecdotes collectively
  • anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes
  • anglecized — Misspelling of anglicized.
  • anglicised — Made into a form similar to that used by the English.
  • anglicized — having become or been made English in outlook, attitude, form, etc
  • antecedent — An antecedent of something happened or existed before it and was similar to it in some way.
  • anteceding — to go before, in time, order, rank, etc.; precede: Shakespeare antecedes Milton.
  • anucleated — without a nucleus
  • aphidicide — substance for killing aphids
  • apocopated — to shorten by apocope.
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