10-letter words containing a, c, e, r
- ascigerous — of or relating to asci.
- ascorbates — Plural form of ascorbate.
- ascospores — Plural form of ascospore.
- ascribable — to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians.
- ascriptive — having the ability to be attributable to
- aspherical — (of a reflecting surface or lens) deviating slightly from a perfectly spherical shape and relatively free from aberrations.
- ass-kicker — to kick ass. See kick (def 33).
- assertoric — (of a statement) stating a fact, as opposed to expressing an evaluative judgment
- assurances — Plural form of assurance.
- astrictive — Binding; astringent.
- astrocytes — Plural form of astrocyte.
- asymmetric — Asymmetric means the same as asymmetrical.
- at a price — If you can buy something that you want at a price, it is for sale, but it is extremely expensive.
- atascadero — a town in SW California.
- atef-crown — a symbolic headdress of certain Egyptian gods, as Osiris, and of Egyptian kings, consisting of a tall conical cap flanked by two plumes and bearing representations of the uraeus and the sun.
- athermancy — an inability to transmit radiant heat or infrared radiation
- atrocities — acts of extreme cruelty, esp against prisoners or civilians in wartime
- attoparsec — (unit, humour) About 31 mm (one inch). "atto-" is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^-18. A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attoparsec is thus 3.26 * 10^-18 light years. Thus, one attoparsec per microfortnight is about one inch per second. This unit is reported to be in use (though probably not very seriously) among hackers in the UK.
- attractive — A person who is attractive is pleasant to look at.
- auctioneer — An auctioneer is a person in charge of an auction.
- aureomycin — chlortetracycline
- auriculate — having ears
- auriscopes — Plural form of auriscope.
- autarchies — Plural form of autarchy.
- autochrome — a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet.
- autoerotic — producing sexual excitement or pleasure without association with another person or external stimulation.
- auxochrome — a group of atoms that can be attached to a chromogen to convert it into a dye
- aviatrices — Plural form of aviatrix.
- aviculture — the keeping and rearing of birds
- avirulence — The state of being avirulent.
- awe-struck — filled with awe
- ayers rock — a conspicuous red monadnock in central Australia, in the SW Northern Territory: tourist attraction. 1143 feet (348 meters) high.
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- b particle — B meson.
- bachelor's — a person who has been awarded a bachelor's degree.
- back cover — the back part of the cover of a book or magazine
- back green — grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement
- back order — an order to be filled when stock is renewed
- back river — a river in N Canada, flowing northeast through Nunavut to the Arctic Ocean. Length: about 966 km (600 miles)
- back score — a line at each end of the rink parallel to and equidistant from the foot score and the sweeping score.
- back water — to reverse the direction of a boat, esp to push the oars of a rowing boat to slow it down or stop it
- back-order — to treat as a back order: We have to back-order your sofa until the new fabric arrives.
- backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
- backburned — Simple past tense and past participle of backburn.
- backburner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- backhander — A backhander is an amount of money that is illegally paid to someone in a position of authority in order to encourage them to do something.
- backlasher — something or someone who produces a backlash
- backmarker — a competitor who is at the back of a field in a race
- backpacker — A backpacker is a person who goes travelling with a backpack.
- backseater — A navigator who accompanies the pilot of an aircraft.