10-letter words containing a, c, n, t
- ascertains — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- ascription — the act of ascribing
- assistance — If you give someone assistance, you help them do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- astricting — Present participle of astrict.
- astriction — to bind fast; constrain.
- astrionics — the science dealing with the application of electronics to astronautics.
- astromancy — divination by means of the stars.
- astronomic — of, relating to, or connected with astronomy.
- asyntactic — showing no syntactical rules or regularity
- at a pinch — If you say that something is possible at a pinch, or in American English if you say that something is possible in a pinch, you mean that it would be possible if it was necessary, but it might not be very comfortable or convenient.
- 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.
- athabascan — a family of languages spoken by American Indians in most of inland northwest Canada and Alaska, in coastal Oregon and California, and in Arizona and the Rio Grande basin, and including especially Navajo, Apache, and Chipewyan. Compare family (def 14).
- athapascan — a group of North American Indian languages belonging to the Na-Dene phylum, including Apache and Navaho
- athermancy — an inability to transmit radiant heat or infrared radiation
- attachment — If you have an attachment to someone or something, you are fond of them or loyal to them.
- 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
- attractant — a substance that attracts, esp a chemical (sex attractant) produced by an insect and attracting insects of the same species
- attracting — Present participle of attract.
- attraction — An attraction is a feature which makes something interesting or desirable.
- au courant — up-to-date, esp in knowledge of current affairs
- auctionary — of or relating to auctions or auctioneers
- auctioneer — An auctioneer is a person in charge of an auction.
- auctioning — Present participle of auction.
- austenitic — consisting mainly of austenite.
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- autochthon — one of the earliest known inhabitants of any country; aboriginal
- autonoetic — Of or relating to autonoesis.
- autonomics — the study of self-regulating systems for process control
- avocations — Plural form of avocation.
- 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
- bacchantes — Plural form of bacchant.
- bacitracin — an antibiotic used mainly in treating bacterial skin infections: obtained from the bacterium Bacillus subtilis
- backbiting — If you accuse someone of backbiting, you mean that they say unpleasant or unkind things about someone who is not present, especially in order to stop them doing well at work.
- backdating — Present participle of backdate.
- backend-to — in a reversed position; backward.
- balconette — a lightly padded bra that is designed to lift and enhance the appearance of a woman's bust
- balopticon — a type of stereopticon for projecting images of objects by reflected light.
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
- barycenter — (physics) The center of a mass; often specifically, the point at which the gravitational forces exerted by two objects are equal.
- barycentre — a centre of mass, esp of the earth-moon system or the solar system
- batrachian — any amphibian, esp a frog or toad
- beachfront — A beachfront house, café, shop, or hotel is situated on or by a beach.
- beautician — A beautician is a person whose job is giving people beauty treatments such as doing their nails, treating their skin, and putting on their make-up.
- bench seat — a seat for more than one person
- benefactor — A benefactor is a person who helps a person or organization by giving them money.
- berecyntia — Cybele.
- betacyanin — any one of a group of red nitrogenous pigments found in certain plants, such as beetroot