10-letter words containing a, d, i, e, n
- africander — one of a breed of red beef cattle, raised originally in southern Africa, well adapted to high temperatures.
- afrikander — a breed of humpbacked beef cattle originally raised in southern Africa
- aggrandise — to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend.
- aggrandize — To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
- agonizedly — in an agonized way
- 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-minded — interested in or promoting aviation or aircraft
- alabandite — a mineral form of manganese sulphide (MnS) with cubic crystals
- albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
- aldermanic — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- aleixandre — Vicente (viˈθɛnte). 1898–1984, Spanish poet, whose collections include La destrucción o el amor (1935; Destruction or Love): Nobel prize for literature 1977
- alessandri — Jorge [hawr-he] /ˈhɔr hɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1986, Chilean engineer and statesman: president 1958–64.
- alexandria — the chief port of Egypt, on the Nile Delta: cultural centre of ancient times, founded by Alexander the Great (332 bc). Pop: 3 760 000 (2005 est)
- alice band — an ornamental band worn across the front of the hair to hold it back from the face
- alisanders — Alternative form of alexanders (plant).
- almandines — Plural form of almandine.
- aluminized — Simple past tense and past participle of aluminize.
- amantadine — an antiviral drug used in the treatment of some types of influenza and to reduce some of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease
- ambitioned — sought after, desired
- amendation — (US) The result of making an amendment to a document etc; an amendment.
- amer. ind. — American Indian
- amerindian — Amerindian means the same as American Indian.
- amiodarone — a substance, C 25 H 29 I 2 NO 3 , used in the treatment of heart arrhythmias.
- amlodipine — A long-acting calcium channel blocker used as an anti-hypertensive and in the treatment of angina.
- ammoniated — to treat or cause to unite with ammonia.
- ammonified — Simple past tense and past participle of ammonify.
- amplidynes — Plural form of amplidyne.
- amygdaline — of or relating to a tonsil
- analogised — Simple past tense and past participle of analogise.
- analogized — Simple past tense and past participle of analogize.
- anandamide — a naturally occurring endogenous cannabinoid neurotransmitter found in the brains of mammals and in small quantities in the cocoa bean
- anatomized — Simple past tense and past participle of anatomize.
- andalusite — a grey, pink, or brown hard mineral consisting of aluminium silicate in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in metamorphic rocks and is used as a refractory and as a gemstone. Formula: Al2SiO5
- 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
- aneuploidy — (genetics) The condition of being aneuploid; the state of possessing chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number.
- angioedema — swelling that occurs just beneath the surface of the skin or mucous membranes.
- 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
- anhydremia — an abnormal decrease in the volume of the blood, due to loss of water.
- anhydrides — Plural form of anhydride.
- animadvert — to comment with strong criticism (upon); make censorious remarks (about)
- animalized — Simple past tense and past participle of animalize.
- animatedly — full of life, action, or spirit; lively; vigorous: an animated debate on the death penalty.
- annualised — to calculate for or as for an entire year: Investors earned an annualized rate of seven percent paid quarterly.
- annualized — to calculate for or as for an entire year: Investors earned an annualized rate of seven percent paid quarterly.
- anonymised — Simple past tense and past participle of anonymise.