10-letter words containing a, d, i, n
- adirondack — a member of an Algonquian people living mainly north of the St. Lawrence River.
- adjourning — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- 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
- adjuration — a solemn charge or command
- administer — If someone administers something such as a country, the law, or a test, they take responsibility for organizing and supervising it.
- admiration — Admiration is a feeling of great liking and respect for a person or thing.
- admiraunce — admirance
- admiringly — displaying or feeling admiration: admiring looks.
- admissions — the procedure for admitting students to study at a college, university, or school
- admittance — Admittance is the act of entering a place or institution or the right to enter it.
- admonished — to caution, advise, or counsel against something.
- admonisher — One who admonishes.
- admonishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admonish.
- admonition — An admonition is a warning or criticism about someone's behaviour.
- admonitive — relating to admonition; admonitory
- admonitory — admonishing; warning
- adnominals — Plural form of adnominal.
- adorations — Plural form of adoration.
- adposition — (grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context.
- adrenaline — a hormone that is secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress and increases heart rate, pulse rate, and blood pressure, and raises the blood levels of glucose and lipids. It is extracted from animals or synthesized for such medical uses as the treatment of asthma. Chemical name: aminohydroxyphenylpropionic acid; formula: C9H13NO3
- adrenalise — (British spelling) To render frightening or thrilling, such as to stimulate the production of adrenalin.
- adrenalize — to stir to action; excite: The promise of victory adrenalized the team.
- adrenergic — releasing or activated by adrenaline or an adrenaline-like substance
- adriamycin — a trade name of the anticancer drug doxorubicin
- adrian iii — Saint, Italian ecclesiastic: pope a.d. 884–885.
- adrianople — Edirne
- adroitness — expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- adsorption — an adsorbing or being adsorbed; adhesion of the molecules of a gas, liquid, or dissolved substance to a surface
- adulations — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
- adulterine — of or made by adulteration; fake
- adventitia — the outermost covering of an organ or part, esp the outer coat of a blood vessel
- advisement — consultation; deliberation
- 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
- aedilitian — one of a board of magistrates in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, games, etc.
- 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.
- 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
- albondigas — Small meatballs, prepared in the Mexican, Spanish, or South American way.
- albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
- albuminoid — resembling albumin