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

  • athermancy — an inability to transmit radiant heat or infrared radiation
  • atomic age — the period characterized by the use of atomic energy: regarded as beginning with the creation of the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction on December 2, 1942
  • atrocities — acts of extreme cruelty, esp against prisoners or civilians in wartime
  • attachable — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
  • attachment — If you have an attachment to someone or something, you are fond of them or loyal to them.
  • attackable — Which may be attacked.
  • attendance — Someone's attendance at an event or an institution is the fact that they are present at the event or go regularly to the institution.
  • attendancy — the condition or quality of accompanying or attending
  • attic base — (in classical architecture) a base for a column, consisting of an upper and a lower torus separated by a scotia between two fillets.
  • 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.
  • audacities — Plural form of audacity.
  • auriculate — having ears
  • auscultate — to examine (a patient) by means of auscultation
  • auspicated — Simple past tense and past participle of auspicate.
  • austenitic — consisting mainly of austenite.
  • autarchies — Plural form of autarchy.
  • autecology — the ecological study of an individual organism or species
  • authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
  • 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.
  • autoclaved — Simple past tense and past participle of autoclave.
  • autoclaves — Plural form of autoclave.
  • autoecious — (of parasites, esp the rust fungi) completing the entire life cycle on a single species of host
  • autoerotic — producing sexual excitement or pleasure without association with another person or external stimulation.
  • autonoetic — Of or relating to autonoesis.
  • aviatrices — Plural form of aviatrix.
  • aviculture — the keeping and rearing of birds
  • avouchment — The act of avouching.
  • avunculate — the custom in some societies of assigning rights and duties to a maternal uncle concerning his sister's son
  • awe-struck — filled with awe
  • aztec lily — a bulbous plant, Sprekelia formosissima, of the amaryllis family, native to Mexico, bearing a large, bright-red flower.
  • b particle — B meson.
  • bacchantes — Plural form of bacchant.
  • back quote — (character)   "`" ASCII code 96. Common names: left quote; left single quote; open quote; ITU-T: grave accent; grave. Rare: backprime; INTERCAL: backspark; unapostrophe; birk; blugle; back tick; back glitch; push; ITU-T: opening single quotation mark; quasiquote. Back quote is used in Unix shells to invoke command substitution.
  • 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-dated — If a purchase order or invoice is back-dated, it is given a date that is some time before the date it was actually prepared.
  • backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
  • backend-to — in a reversed position; backward.
  • backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
  • backplates — Plural form of backplate.
  • backseater — A navigator who accompanies the pilot of an aircraft.
  • backstreet — a street in a town remote from the main roads
  • backstroke — Backstroke is a swimming stroke that you do lying on your back.
  • backtalker — One who backtalks.
  • backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
  • bacteremia — the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream
  • bacteremic — Of, pertaining to or having bacteremia.
  • bacteriol. — bacteriological
  • balconette — a lightly padded bra that is designed to lift and enhance the appearance of a woman's bust
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