10-letter words containing a, d, r, t
- advisorate — an advisory body or group
- advocaters — Plural form of advocater.
- advocators — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- advocatory — of an advocate
- afforested — Simple past and past participle of afforest.
- affrighted — to frighten.
- after dark — If you do something after dark, you do it when the sun has set and night has begun.
- afterdecks — Plural form of afterdeck.
- afterguard — a sailor or group of sailors stationed on the poop to attend to the aft sails
- afterwards — If you do something or if something happens afterwards, you do it or it happens after a particular event or time that has already been mentioned.
- afterwords — Plural form of afterword.
- afterworld — a world inhabited after death
- 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.
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- altar card — one of three cards having certain portions of the Mass printed on them, placed upright on the altar to assist the memory of the celebrant.
- alter idem — another of the same kind; second self
- alternated — Simple past tense and past participle of alternate.
- ambidexter — someone who is ambidextrous
- amendatory — serving to amend; corrective
- anderlecht — a town in central Belgium, a suburb of Brussels. Pop: 92 755 (2004 est)
- anhidrotic — curbing the secretion of sweat
- animadvert — to comment with strong criticism (upon); make censorious remarks (about)
- anteverted — to displace (the uterus or other body organ) by tipping forward.
- antheridia — a male reproductive structure producing gametes, occurring in ferns, mosses, fungi, and algae.
- anthracoid — resembling anthrax
- anthropoid — resembling man
- anti-draft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- antidromic — (of nerve fibres) conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal
- antimodern — opposed to modern attitudes
- antitrades — winds moving above and opposite to the tropical trade winds: as they reach the Temperate Zones, they descend to the surface, forming a deep layer of prevailing westerlies
- approbated — Simple past tense and past participle of approbate.
- arbitraged — Simple past tense and past participle of arbitrage.
- arbitrated — to decide as arbitrator or arbiter; determine.
- area study — anthropological or sociological research intended to gather and relate data on various aspects of a geographical region and its inhabitants, as natural resources, history, language, institutions, or cultural and economic characteristics; a field investigation into human ecology.
- argyrodite — a rare mineral, Ag8GeS6, that contains silver, germanium, and sulphur
- aromatized — Simple past tense and past participle of aromatize.
- art dealer — a person who buys and sells works of art
- arthrodial — a joint, as in the carpal articulations, in which the surfaces glide over each other in movement.
- arthrodire — any of numerous fishes of the extinct order Arthrodira, widely distributed during the Devonian Period, having the anterior part of the body covered by a shield of bony plates.
- arthropoda — the phylum comprising the arthropods.
- arthropods — any invertebrate of the phylum Arthropoda, having a segmented body, jointed limbs, and usually a chitinous shell that undergoes moltings, including the insects, spiders and other arachnids, crustaceans, and myriapods.
- arytenoids — Plural form of arytenoid.
- ascerbated — Simple past tense and past participle of ascerbate.
- aspidistra — any Asian plant of the liliaceous genus Aspidistra, esp A. lurida, a popular house plant with long tough evergreen leaves and purplish flowers borne on the ground
- assertedly — in a maintained but uncorroborated manner
- astarboard — to or from the starboard side
- asteriated — having a structure that produces an asterism
- asteridian — a member of the starfish family Asteridae
- asterisked — Simple past tense and past participle of asterisk.