10-letter words containing a, e, c, u
- acute-care — providing emergency services and general medical and surgical treatment for acute disorders rather than long-term residential care for chronic illness.
- adequacies — Plural form of adequacy.
- adjudicate — If you adjudicate on a dispute or problem, you make an official judgment or decision about it.
- adjunctive — that constitutes an adjunct
- admiraunce — admirance
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- alexicacus — an epithet of Apollo, meaning “averter of evil,” in reference to his dispelling a plague that afflicted the Athenian forces in the Peloponnesian War.
- alice blue — a pale grayish-blue color.
- alice paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- alliaceous — of or relating to Allium, a genus of plants that have a strong onion or garlic smell and often have bulbs: family Alliaceae. The genus occurs in the N hemisphere and includes onion, garlic, leek, chive, and shallot
- alutaceous — Zoology. covered with minute cracks or wrinkles and having a pale, leathery-brown color.
- amarynceus — a king of Messene who ruled Elis with Augeas and who was slain by Nestor in a war against the Pylians.
- ambulances — Plural form of ambulance.
- ambuscaded — Simple past tense and past participle of ambuscade.
- ambuscader — a person waiting in ambush; an ambusher
- ambuscades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambuscade.
- amylaceous — of or resembling starch
- androecium — the stamens of a flowering plant collectively
- animalcule — a microscopic animal such as an amoeba or rotifer
- announcers — Plural form of announcer.
- annunciate — to announce
- anonaceous — relating to the plant family Anonaceae and its members
- anucleated — without a nucleus
- apiculture — the breeding and care of bees
- apothecium — a cup-shaped structure that contains the asci, esp in lichens; a type of ascocarp
- applesauce — a relish or dessert made of apples stewed to a pulp and sweetened; (fig.) (sl.) bunkum, nonsense
- arcesilaus — 316–241 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- archemorus — Opheltes.
- arenaceous — (of sedimentary rocks and deposits) composed of sand or sandstone
- articulate — If you describe someone as articulate, you mean that they are able to express their thoughts and ideas easily and well.
- ascigerous — of or relating to asci.
- ascogenous — of, relating to, or producing asci.
- assurances — Plural form of assurance.
- auctioneer — An auctioneer is a person in charge of an auction.
- audacities — Plural form of audacity.
- audiogenic — caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency
- aureomycin — chlortetracycline
- auriculate — having ears
- auriscopes — Plural form of auriscope.
- auscultate — to examine (a patient) by means of auscultation
- auspicated — Simple past tense and past participle of auspicate.
- austenitic — consisting mainly of austenite.
- autarchies — Plural form of autarchy.
- autecology — the ecological study of an individual organism or species
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- autochrome — a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet.
- autoclaved — Simple past tense and past participle of autoclave.
- autoclaves — Plural form of autoclave.
- autoecious — (of parasites, esp the rust fungi) completing the entire life cycle on a single species of host
- autoerotic — producing sexual excitement or pleasure without association with another person or external stimulation.