10-letter words containing a, c, l
- agathocles — 361–289 b.c, tyrant of Syracuse 317–289.
- agricultor — (archaic) An agriculturist; a farmer.
- air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
- air police — members of an air force assigned to carry on police duties
- 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.
- alacritous — cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- alarm call — a telephone call that someone arranges to have made in order to wake him or her up in the morning
- alarmclock — Misspelling of alarm clock.
- alaska cod — a cod, Gadus macrocephalus.
- albescence — becoming white; whitish.
- albinistic — Of or pertaining to albinism.
- alcaiceria — a silk market
- alchemical — Alchemical means relating to the science of alchemy.
- alchemists — Plural form of alchemist.
- alchemized — Simple past tense and past participle of alchemize.
- alcheringa — (often initial capital letter) dreamtime.
- alchymists — Plural form of alchymist.
- 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)
- alcoholate — any of a class of compounds, analogous to hydrates, containing chemically combined alcohol, as chloral alcoholate, C 4 Cl 3 H 7 O 2 .
- alcoholics — Plural form of alcoholic.
- alcoholise — Alternative spelling of alcoholize.
- alcoholism — People who suffer from alcoholism cannot stop drinking large quantities of alcohol.
- alcoholize — to turn into alcoholic drink, as by fermenting or mixing with alcohol
- alcoranist — a person who believes in an absolutely literal interpretation of the Koran.
- aldermanic — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- ale conner — a local official appointed to examine the measure and quality of ale, beer, and bread
- alexicacus — an epithet of Apollo, meaning “averter of evil,” in reference to his dispelling a plague that afflicted the Athenian forces in the Peloponnesian War.
- algolagnic — Of or relating to algolagnia.
- alice band — an ornamental band worn across the front of the hair to hold it back from the face
- alice blue — a pale grayish-blue color.
- alice paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- alkahestic — of or relating to the alkahest
- all'antica — in the manner of the ancients.
- all-comers — You use all-comers to refer to everyone who wants to take part in an activity, especially a competition.
- allegiance — Your allegiance is your support for and loyalty to a particular group, person, or belief.
- allergenic — causing allergic sensitization.
- alliaceous — of or relating to Allium, a genus of plants that have a strong onion or garlic smell and often have bulbs: family Alliaceae. The genus occurs in the N hemisphere and includes onion, garlic, leek, chive, and shallot
- alliancing — Present participle of alliance.
- allocating — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- allocation — An allocation is an amount of something, especially money, that is given to a particular person or used for a particular purpose.
- allocative — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- allochthon — a geological formation not formed in the region where found and moved to its present location by tectonic forces. Compare autochthon (def 3).
- allocution — a formal or authoritative speech or address, esp one that advises, informs, or exhorts
- allogeneic — being genetically different, while belonging to the same species
- allometric — Of or pertaining to allometry.
- allopathic — of, relating to, or used in allopathy
- allopatric — (of biological speciation or species) taking place or existing in areas that are geographically separated from one another
- allophonic — any of the members of a class of speech sounds that, taken together, are commonly felt to be a phoneme, as the t- sounds of toe, stow, tree, hatpin, catcall, cats, catnip, button, metal, city; a speech sound constituting one of the phonetic manifestations or variants of a particular phoneme.
- allostatic — Relating to allostasis.
- allosteric — of, relating to, or designating a function of an enzyme in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule