10-letter words containing a, d, i
- acrylamide — a chemical compound that forms in certain foods when exposed to high temperature
- actinopods — any protozoan of the subclass Actinopoda, including the heliozoans and radiolarians, having stiff, rodlike, radiating pseudopodia.
- actualised — Simple past tense and past participle of actualise.
- actualized — Simple past tense and past participle of actualize.
- acuminated — Botany, Zoology. pointed; tapering to a point.
- ad feminam — appealing to one's personal considerations or feelings about women, especially one's prejudices against them.
- ad gloriam — for glory.
- ad hominem — directed against a person rather than against his arguments
- ad initium — at or to the beginning
- ad interim — for the meantime; for the present
- ad libitum — (to be performed) at the performer's discretion
- adam smith — Adam, 1723–90, Scottish economist.
- adamantine — very hard; unbreakable or unyielding
- adamantium — A fictional metal that is indestructible or nearly so.
- adaptation — An adaptation of a book or play is a film or a television programme that is based on it.
- adaptative — of or relating to adaptation
- adaptively — in an adaptive manner
- adaptivity — in a state that has a capacity for adaptation
- adar sheni — an extra month of the Jewish year, occurring about once every three years between Adar and Nisan
- added line — ledger line.
- added time — (in a sports match) extra time added to the end of a half to make up for the time spent dealing with injuries, substitutions, etc
- addictions — Plural form of addiction.
- addictives — Plural form of addictive.
- addisonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Joseph Addison or his works.
- additament — an addition
- additional — Additional things are extra things apart from the ones already present.
- additively — in an additive manner
- additivity — the state of being additive
- addressing — a method by which a computer network can identify which device sent a piece of information over the network, and which device received it
- addression — (obsolete) The act of addressing or directing one's course.
- adenosines — Plural form of adenosine.
- adenoviral — relating to an adenovirus
- adenovirus — any of a group of viruses that can cause upper respiratory diseases in man
- adequacies — Plural form of adequacy.
- adequality — Quality of being adequal.
- adequation — Equivalence.
- adequative — relating to adequacy
- adhesional — relating to adhesion
- adhesively — coated with glue, paste, mastic, or other sticky substance: adhesive bandages.
- adhocratic — Relating to adhocracy.
- adiactinic — denoting a substance that does not transmit radiation affecting photochemically sensitive materials, such as a safelight in a photographic darkroom
- adiaphoron — a thing of indifference
- adipocytes — Plural form of adipocyte.
- adipokines — Plural form of adipokine.
- adipopexia — lipopexia.
- adirondack — a member of an Algonquian people living mainly north of the St. Lawrence River.
- adjectival — Adjectival means relating to adjectives or like an adjective.
- adjectives — Grammar. any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying, as wise in a wise grandmother, or perfect in a perfect score, or handsome in He is extremely handsome. Other terms, as numbers (one cup; twelve months), certain demonstrative pronouns (this magazine; those questions), and terms that impose limits (each person; no mercy) can also function adjectivally, as can some nouns that are found chiefly in fixed phrases where they immediately precede the noun they modify, as bottle in bottle cap and bus in bus station. Synonyms: modifier, qualifier, identifier, describer, describing word.
- adjourning — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- adjudicate — If you adjudicate on a dispute or problem, you make an official judgment or decision about it.