10-letter words containing a, l, i, t, o
- two-tailed — (of a significance test) concerned with the hypothesis that an observed value of a sampling statistic differs significantly from a given value, where an error in either direction is relevant: for instance, in testing the fairness of scales, an inspector will seek to exclude both overweight and underweight goods
- ulceration — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.
- ultramicro — extremely small or minute
- ultrasonic — of, relating to, or utilizing ultrasound.
- undulation — an act of undulating; a wavelike motion.
- unfoliated — shaped like a leaf or leaves: foliated ornaments.
- unifoliate — having only one leaf.
- unimmortal — not immortal
- unisolated — to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
- unoptional — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- unrational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- untailored — (of a woman's garment) in a simple or plain style with fitted lines. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
- unviolated — not violated or desecrated
- urogenital — genitourinary.
- ustulation — the act of scorching or burning.
- vacillator — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- validation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- vapulation — the act of beating or whipping
- variolator — (before the introduction of vaccinations) someone who caused exposure to the smallpox virus to people (by, for example, collecting pus of affected patients) so as to promote immunity
- variolitic — Petrography. containing or resembling varioles, especially in texture.
- velitation — a minor dispute or contest.
- venatorial — of or relating to hunting
- ventilator — a person or thing that ventilates.
- vinylation — the process of introducing the vinyl group into a compound by reaction with acetylene.
- violet ray — the shortest ray of the visible spectrum
- visitorial — of or relating to a visitor; visitatorial.
- vitriolate — relating to vitriol
- vocabulist — a vocabulary
- vocational — of, relating to, or connected with a vocation or occupation: a vocational aptitude.
- volatility — evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor: Acetone is a volatile solvent.
- volatilize — to become volatile; pass off as vapor.
- volitation — the act or power of flying.
- volitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- volitorial — relating to flying
- voltairian — (François Marie Arouet) 1694–1778, French philosopher, historian, satirist, dramatist, and essayist.
- volutation — the action of rotation or inducing rotation
- vorticella — any ciliated protozoan of the genus Vorticella, having a transparent, bell-shaped body with a retractile stalk.
- waistcloth — a loincloth.
- waitpeople — Plural form of waitperson.
- wallington — a town in NE New Jersey.
- walnut oil — oil obtained from walnuts
- whirlabout — a whirling around in a circle.
- white coal — Informal. water, as of a stream, used for power.
- wikitorial — an online newspaper or magazine editorial that can be altered by readers
- wolframite — a mineral, iron manganese tungstate, (Fe,Mn)WO 4 , occurring in heavy grayish-black to brownish-black tabular or bladed crystals: an important ore of tungsten.
- yellowtail — a game fish, Seriola lalandei, of California.
- zooplastic — the transplantation of living tissue to the human body from an animal of another species.
- zoothecial — of or relating to the zoothecia