10-letter words containing a, d, o, e
- admonishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admonish.
- admonitive — relating to admonition; admonitory
- adobe flat — a gently sloping clayey plain formed by a short-lived stream or flood water
- adolescent — Adolescent is used to describe young people who are no longer children but who have not yet become adults. It also refers to their behaviour.
- adoptively — in an adoptive manner; by adoption
- adornments — Plural form of adornment.
- adrenalone — An adrenergic agonist used as a topical vasoconstrictor and hemostatic.
- adrianople — Edirne
- adroitness — expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- adsorbable — Able to be adsorbed.
- adsorbates — Plural form of adsorbate.
- adsorptive — relating to or characterized by adsorption
- adult home — any of various private residences for former state psychiatric patients, supervised by a department of a state or city government.
- adulterous — An adulterous relationship is a sexual relationship between a married person and someone they are not married to. An adulterous person is someone who commits adultery.
- advisorate — an advisory body or group
- advisories — Plural form of advisory.
- advocacies — the act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending; active espousal: He was known for his advocacy of states' rights.
- advocaters — Plural form of advocater.
- advocative — characterized by advocating
- aerobridge — A telescoping corridor that extends from an airport terminal to an aircraft and allows secure boarding and disembarkation of passengers.
- aerodromes — Plural form of aerodrome.
- affordable — If something is affordable, most people have enough money to buy it.
- affordance — A potential action that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
- afforested — Simple past and past participle of afforest.
- aforenamed — Named earlier in a document.
- aforesaide — Archaic spelling of aforesaid.
- afterwords — Plural form of afterword.
- afterworld — a world inhabited after death
- agonizedly — in an agonized way
- aid worker — a person who works for an aid agency
- 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-cooled — An air-cooled engine is prevented from getting too hot when it is running by cool air that passes over it, rather than being cooled by a liquid.
- air-logged — (of a pump or system of piping) hindered in its functioning by an air lock; air-bound.
- airdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of airdrop.
- albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
- alderwoman — (in England and Wales until 1974) one of the senior female members of a local council, elected by other councillors
- alderwomen — Plural form of alderwoman.
- aldohexose — any aldose containing six carbon atoms, such as glucose or mannose
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- alessandro — Victor Nicholas, 1915–76, U.S. orchestra conductor.
- alexandros — Alexander (def 2).
- allowanced — Simple past tense and past participle of allowance.
- almoravide — a member of a fanatical people of Berber origin and Islamic faith, who founded an empire in N Africa that spread over much of Spain in the 11th century ad
- aloes wood — eaglewood
- ambitioned — sought after, desired
- amendation — (US) The result of making an amendment to a document etc; an amendment.
- amendatory — serving to amend; corrective
- 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.