10-letter words containing a, d
- accordance — conformity; agreement; accord (esp in the phrase in accordance with)
- accordancy — accord; agreement
- accordions — Plural form of accordion.
- accordment — (obsolete) Agreement; reconcilement.
- accoutered — to equip or outfit, especially with military clothes, equipment, etc.
- accredited — appointed and having official credentials
- accreditor — A person or organization that provides accreditation.
- accroached — Simple past tense and past participle of accroach.
- accursedly — In an accursed manner.
- accustomed — If you are accustomed to something, you know it so well or have experienced it so often that it seems natural, unsurprising, or easy to deal with.
- acetanilid — Alternative form of acetanilide.
- acetylated — Simple past tense and past participle of acetylate.
- acetylides — Plural form of acetylide.
- acey-deucy — a form of backgammon
- achaemenid — any member of a Persian dynasty of kings, including Cyrus the Great, that ruled from about 550 to 331 bc, when Darius III was overthrown by Alexander the Great
- achondrite — a rare stony meteorite that consists mainly of silicate minerals and has the texture of igneous rock but contains no chondrules
- aciculated — Alternative form of aciculate.
- acid freak — a person taking or having taken LSD regularly and heavily, such that their psychological state has been affected
- acid house — Acid house is a type of electronic dance music with a strong, repeated rhythm.
- acid value — the number of milligrams of potassium hydroxide required to neutralize the free fatty acid in one gram of a fat, oil, resin, etc
- acid-proof — resistant to the action of acid
- acidifying — Present participle of acidify.
- acidimeter — any instrument or standard solution for determining the amount of acid in a sample solution
- acidimetry — the determination of the amount of acid present in a solution, measured by an acidimeter or by volumetric analysis
- acidogenic — producing acid, as bacteria, or causing acidity, as of the urine.
- acidolysis — decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an acid.
- acidometer — a type of hydrometer for measuring the relative density of an acid solution, esp the acid in a battery
- acidophile — Biology, Ecology. acidophilic.
- acidophils — Plural form of acidophil.
- acidulated — Simple past tense and past participle of acidulate.
- acidulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acidulate.
- acknowledg — Obsolete form of acknowledge.
- acotyledon — any plant, such as a fern or moss, that does not possess cotyledons
- acquainted — If you are acquainted with something, you know about it because you have learned it or experienced it.
- acquiesced — to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.
- acrylamide — a chemical compound that forms in certain foods when exposed to high temperature
- act of god — An act of God is an event that is beyond human control, especially one in which something is damaged or someone is hurt.
- 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.
- acute dose — a total dose of radiation administered over such a short period that biological recovery is impossible
- 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
- ad nauseam — If someone does something ad nauseam, they do it repeatedly and over a long period of time so that it becomes annoying or boring.
- ad valorem — (of taxes) in proportion to the estimated value of the goods taxed