10-letter words containing a, d, r, e
- afterwords — Plural form of afterword.
- afterworld — a world inhabited after death
- 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.
- aggravated — Aggravated is used to describe a serious crime which involves violence.
- aggregated — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
- ahmednagar — a city in W India, in Maharashtra: formerly one of the kingdoms of Deccan. Pop: 307 455 (2001)
- aid worker — a person who works for an aid agency
- air bridge — a link by air transport between two places, esp two places separated by a stretch of sea
- 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.
- air-minded — interested in or promoting aviation or aircraft
- airbrushed — Simple past tense and past participle of airbrush.
- airdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of airdrop.
- alderflies — Plural form of alderfly.
- aldermanic — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- aldermanly — pompous
- aldermanry — the district, office, or rank of an alderman.
- 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.
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- aleixandre — Vicente (viˈθɛnte). 1898–1984, Spanish poet, whose collections include La destrucción o el amor (1935; Destruction or Love): Nobel prize for literature 1977
- alessandra — a female given name, Italian form of Alexandra.
- alessandri — Jorge [hawr-he] /ˈhɔr hɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1986, Chilean engineer and statesman: president 1958–64.
- alessandro — Victor Nicholas, 1915–76, U.S. orchestra conductor.
- alexanders — a biennial umbelliferous plant, Smyrnium olusatrum, native to S Europe, with dense umbels of yellow-green flowers and black fruits
- 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)
- alexandros — Alexander (def 2).
- alisanders — Alternative form of alexanders (plant).
- 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
- alter idem — another of the same kind; second self
- alternated — Simple past tense and past participle of alternate.
- ambidexter — someone who is ambidextrous
- ambuscader — a person waiting in ambush; an ambusher
- amendatory — serving to amend; corrective
- 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.
- ampersands — Plural form of ampersand.
- anagrammed — a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”.
- anchor bed — a sloping, slightly projecting platform on the forecastle of a ship, for supporting an anchor when not in use.
- anderlecht — a town in central Belgium, a suburb of Brussels. Pop: 92 755 (2004 est)
- androecium — the stamens of a flowering plant collectively
- androgenic — any substance, as testosterone or androsterone, that promotes male characteristics.
- androgynes — Plural form of androgyne.
- andromache — the wife of Hector
- andromaque — a tragedy (1667) by Racine.
- andropause — the period, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55, during which a man's testosterone levels may fall, leading to a reduction in vigour and sexual drive
- androphore — an extension of the receptacle carrying the androecium and the gynoecium, typical of the caper family (Capparidaceae)
- androspore — the zoospore of certain algae that develops into a small male plant producing antherozoids.