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10-letter words containing a, d

  • aerodromes — Plural form of aerodrome.
  • affectedly — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
  • affidavits — Plural form of affidavit.
  • affiliated — If an organization is affiliated with another larger organization, it is officially connected with the larger organization or is a member of it.
  • affordable — If something is affordable, most people have enough money to buy it.
  • affordably — in an affordable or reasonably priced manner
  • 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.
  • affrighted — to frighten.
  • aficionada — a female aficionado
  • aficionado — If someone is an aficionado of something, they like it and know a lot about it.
  • aforenamed — Named earlier in a document.
  • aforesaide — Archaic spelling of aforesaid.
  • africander — one of a breed of red beef cattle, raised originally in southern Africa, well adapted to high temperatures.
  • afrikander — a breed of humpbacked beef cattle originally raised in southern Africa
  • 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
  • agendaless — without an agenda; unplanned; purposeless
  • 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.
  • agitatedly — excited; disturbed.
  • agonizedly — in an agonized way
  • ahmadiyyah — a messianic Islamic sect founded in Qadian, India, in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad; it split into two branches in 1914
  • ahmednagar — a city in W India, in Maharashtra: formerly one of the kingdoms of Deccan. Pop: 307 455 (2001)
  • aid agency — an organization that gives money, equipment, or services to people who need them but who cannot provide them for themselves
  • aid worker — a person who works for an aid agency
  • aids virus — a variable retrovirus that invades and inactivates helper T cells of the immune system and is a cause of AIDS and AIDS-related complex: variants were identified in several laboratories and independently named lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (HTLV-3) and AIDS-related virus (ARV) the name human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) being subsequently proposed by an international taxonomy committee.
  • 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 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.
  • al-ubayyid — El Obeid
  • alabandite — a mineral form of manganese sulphide (MnS) with cubic crystals
  • alamogordo — city in S N.Mex.: pop. 36,000: site of testing range where first atomic bomb was exploded (July, 1945)
  • alaska cod — a cod, Gadus macrocephalus.
  • albondigas — Small meatballs, prepared in the Mexican, Spanish, or South American way.
  • albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
  • albuminoid — resembling albumin
  • alchemized — Simple past tense and past participle of alchemize.
  • alcibiades — 450–404 bc, Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War: brilliant, courageous, and unstable, he defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the Athenian victories at Abydos (411) and Cyzicus (410)
  • alderflies — Plural form of alderfly.
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