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11-letter words containing a, c

  • accountancy — Accountancy is the theory or practice of keeping financial accounts.
  • accountants — Plural form of accountant.
  • accountings — the theory and system of setting up, maintaining, and auditing the books of a firm; art of analyzing the financial position and operating results of a business house from a study of its sales, purchases, overhead, etc. (distinguished from bookkeeping).
  • accoutering — Present participle of accouter.
  • accrediting — Present participle of accredit.
  • accredition — The giving of credentials.
  • accrescence — continual increase
  • acculturate — (of a cultural or social group) to assimilate the cultural traits of another group
  • acculturize — to cause (a nation, tribe, or other ethnic group) to adopt the culture of another people.
  • accumulated — to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up: to accumulate wealth.
  • accumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accumulate.
  • accumulatio — (rhetoric) A forceful summarisation of previously made points.
  • accumulator — a rechargeable device for storing electrical energy in the form of chemical energy, consisting of one or more separate secondary cells
  • accusations — A charge or claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong.
  • accusatival — of the accusative case
  • accusatives — Plural form of accusative.
  • accustomary — customary or usual
  • accustoming — Present participle of accustom.
  • accustomise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of accustomize.
  • accustomize — (rare) To learn to adapt one's lifestyle to a new or changed environment.
  • ace bandage — an elasticated bandage used to restrict blood flow to the site of an injury and so reduce inflammation
  • acerbically — in an acerbic manner
  • acetabulums — Plural form of acetabulum.
  • acetanilide — a white crystalline powder used in the manufacture of dyes and rubber, as an analgesic in medicine, and as a precursor in penicillin manufacture. Formula: C6H5NHCOCH3
  • acetic acid — Acetic acid is a colourless acid. It is the main substance in vinegar.
  • acetoacetic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to acetoacetic acid or its derivatives.
  • acetobacter — any of several ellipsoidal or rodshaped aerobic bacteria of the genus Acetobacter, certain species of which are used in making vinegar.
  • acetylating — Present participle of acetylate.
  • acetylation — to introduce one or more acetyl groups into (a compound).
  • acetylative — introducing an acetyl group into a chemical compound
  • acey-deucey — a variation of the game of backgammon, in which the throw of a 1 and a 2 has special value
  • achaemenian — of or relating to the Achaemenids or their language, as recorded in cuneiform inscriptions.
  • acharnement — (archaic) Savage fierceness; ferocity.
  • achievement — An achievement is something which someone has succeeded in doing, especially after a lot of effort.
  • achlamydate — not chlamydate; having neither mantle nor pallium.
  • achondrites — Plural form of achondrite.
  • achondritic — (geology) Of or pertaining to achondrite, a type of stony meteorite.
  • achromatism — the condition or quality of being achromatic; lack of color
  • achromatize — to make achromatic; to remove colour from
  • achromatous — having little or no colour or less than is normal
  • acid number — a number indicating the amount of free acid present in a substance, equal to the number of milligrams of potassium hydroxide needed to neutralize the free fatty acids present in one gram of fat or oil
  • acid reflux — the regurgitation of stomach acid into the oesophagus, causing heartburn
  • acid-loving — (of a plant) requiring a pH of 4.5 to 5.5 for optimal growth.
  • acid-washed — (of a denim garment) processed with a bleach solution so that the color becomes faded and grayish.
  • acidanthera — any plant of the African cormous genus Acidanthera, cultivated for its graceful tubular white and red or white and purple flowers, often scented: family Iridaceae
  • acidimeters — Plural form of acidimeter.
  • acidimetric — (chemistry) Describing a titration in which the titrant is an acid.
  • acidophilic — easily stained with acid dyes
  • acidophilus — a lactic-acid-producing bacterium primarily found in live yoghurt, useful in restoring bacterial balance in the intestine
  • acidulating — Present participle of acidulate.
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