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10-letter words containing a, h, e

  • aftershave — Aftershave is a liquid with a pleasant smell that men sometimes put on their faces after shaving.
  • aftershock — Aftershocks are smaller earthquakes which occur after a large earthquake.
  • afterwhile — (US, dialect) afterwards.
  • agathocles — 361–289 b.c, tyrant of Syracuse 317–289.
  • agoraphobe — a person suffering from agoraphobia
  • aha moment — an instant at which the solution to a problem becomes clear
  • ahithophel — a member of David's council, who became one of Absalom's advisers in his rebellion and hanged himself when his advice was overruled (II Samuel 15:12–17:23)
  • ahmednagar — a city in W India, in Maharashtra: formerly one of the kingdoms of Deccan. Pop: 307 455 (2001)
  • ahorseback — on horseback
  • ahvenanmaa — group of Finn. islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia: 590 sq mi (1,528 sq km); pop. 25,000
  • air hammer — a pneumatic hammer, usually portable.
  • air hunger — deep, rapid, and labored breathing caused by an increased respiratory drive due to abnormally low blood oxygen levels, as in severe heart failure or asthma.
  • air shower — a shower of secondary cosmic radiation, caused by the interaction of cosmic radiation or gamma radiation with the atmosphere.
  • airbrushed — Simple past tense and past participle of airbrush.
  • airbrushes — Plural form of airbrush.
  • airfreight — a method or service for transporting cargo by air
  • alchemical — Alchemical means relating to the science of alchemy.
  • alchemists — Plural form of alchemist.
  • alchemized — Simple past tense and past participle of alchemize.
  • alcheringa — (often initial capital letter) dreamtime.
  • alcoholate — any of a class of compounds, analogous to hydrates, containing chemically combined alcohol, as chloral alcoholate, C 4 Cl 3 H 7 O 2 .
  • alcoholise — Alternative spelling of alcoholize.
  • alcoholize — to turn into alcoholic drink, as by fermenting or mixing with alcohol
  • aldohexose — any aldose containing six carbon atoms, such as glucose or mannose
  • aleph-null — the smallest infinite cardinal number; the cardinal number of the set of positive integers
  • alger hiss — Alger, 1904–96, U.S. public official, accused of espionage 1948 and imprisoned for perjury 1950–54.
  • alightment — a descent or dismount, normally from a mode of transport
  • alive with — teeming with; full of (living or moving things)
  • alkahestic — of or relating to the alkahest
  • all the go — very popular; in fashion
  • allophones — Plural form of allophone.
  • allotheism — the worship of gods foreign to one's own land or culture
  • almshouses — Plural form of almshouse.
  • alongshore — close to, by, or along a shore
  • alpenhorns — Plural form of alpenhorn.
  • alpha geek — the person in a group or office who has the most knowledge about computer technology
  • alpha male — the dominant male animal or person in a group
  • alpha wave — any of the electrical waves from the parietal and occipital regions of the brain, having frequencies from 8 to 13 hertz: a sign of relaxation, since they indicate a lack of sensory stimulation in a conscious person
  • alpha-test — an in-house test of a new or modified piece of computer software
  • alphabetic — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • alphametic — a mathematical puzzle using letters to express numbers that must be deciphered
  • altogether — You use altogether to emphasize that something has stopped, been done, or finished completely.
  • amateurish — If you describe something as amateurish, you think that it is not skilfully made or done.
  • ambushment — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
  • amenorrhea — abnormal absence or suppression of menstruation
  • amphiaster — the structure that occurs in a cell undergoing mitosis, consisting of a spindle with an aster at each end
  • amphimacer — a metrical foot consisting, in Greek and Latin verse, of one short syllable between two long ones, or, in English verse, of one unaccented syllable between two accented ones (Ex.: | hésĭtáte |)
  • amphimixes — Plural form of amphimixis.
  • amphiphile — any of many organic compounds such as detergents combining both hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties
  • amphitrite — a sea goddess, wife of Poseidon and mother of Triton
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