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

  • 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.
  • adjunction — (in phrase-structure grammar) the relationship between a branch of a tree representing a sentence to other branches to its left or right that descend from the same node immediately above
  • adjunctive — that constitutes an adjunct
  • admiraunce — admirance
  • admittance — Admittance is the act of entering a place or institution or the right to enter it.
  • adrenergic — releasing or activated by adrenaline or an adrenaline-like substance
  • adriamycin — a trade name of the anticancer drug doxorubicin
  • advocacies — the act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending; active espousal: He was known for his advocacy of states' rights.
  • advocating — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
  • advocation — the transfer to itself by a superior court of an action pending in a lower court
  • advocative — characterized by advocating
  • aficionada — a female aficionado
  • aficionado — If someone is an aficionado of something, they like it and know a lot about it.
  • africander — one of a breed of red beef cattle, raised originally in southern Africa, well adapted to high temperatures.
  • 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
  • amino acid — Amino acids are substances containing nitrogen and hydrogen and which are found in proteins. Amino acids occur naturally in the body.
  • aminoacids — Plural form of aminoacid.
  • anacardium — a genus of plants in the Anacardiaceae family found chiefly in tropical areas
  • andalucian — from or relating to Andalusía
  • andragogic — the methods or techniques used to teach adults: Many educators believe that the principles of andragogy, as advanced by Malcolm Knowles, have great relevance to adult education; others are not so certain.
  • androecium — the stamens of a flowering plant collectively
  • androgenic — any substance, as testosterone or androsterone, that promotes male characteristics.
  • 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
  • anhidrotic — curbing the secretion of sweat
  • anodically — In an anodic manner.
  • anteceding — to go before, in time, order, rank, etc.; precede: Shakespeare antecedes Milton.
  • anthracoid — resembling anthrax
  • anticodons — Plural form of anticodon.
  • antidromic — (of nerve fibres) conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal
  • aphidicide — substance for killing aphids
  • apodeictic — unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration
  • appendical — (generally, chiefly of a book's or of books') Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an appendix or appendices.
  • appendices — Appendices is a plural form of appendix.
  • appendicle — a small appendage
  • arachnidan — (zoology) Any of the Arachnida.
  • arachnoids — Plural form of arachnoid.
  • archfiends — Plural form of archfiend.
  • archimedes — ?287–212 bc, Greek mathematician and physicist of Syracuse, noted for his work in geometry, hydrostatics, and mechanics
  • arcimboldi — Giuseppe [juh-sep-ee;; Italian joo-zep-pe] /dʒəˈsɛp i;; Italian dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1527–93, Italian painter.
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