10-letter words containing a, n, t, b
- acerbating — Present participle of acerbate.
- acerbation — (rare) Bitterness of feeling.
- acorn tube — a small vacuum tube shaped like an acorn
- actionable — If something that you do or say to someone is actionable, it gives them a valid reason for bringing a legal case against you.
- actionably — In an actionable manner.
- afterbrain — metencephalon (sense 1)
- aktyubinsk — city in W Kazakhstan: pop. 248,000
- al-battani — Battani.
- alabandite — a mineral form of manganese sulphide (MnS) with cubic crystals
- alabastron — a jar characteristically having an elongated shape, narrow neck, flat-rimmed mouth, and rounded base requiring a stand or support, chiefly used for fragrant ointments.
- albinistic — Of or pertaining to albinism.
- albuminate — any of several substances formed from albumin by the action of acid or alkali
- ambitioned — sought after, desired
- ambivalent — If you say that someone is ambivalent about something, they seem to be uncertain whether they really want it, or whether they really approve of it.
- ambulating — Present participle of ambulate.
- ambulation — to walk about or move from place to place.
- ambushment — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
- anabaptise — to rebaptise
- anabaptism — a member of any of various Protestant sects, formed in Europe after 1520, that denied the validity of infant baptism, baptized believers only, and advocated social and economic reforms as well as the complete separation of church and state.
- anabaptist — a member of any of various 16th-century Protestant movements that rejected infant baptism, insisted that adults be rebaptized, and sought to establish Christian communism
- anabaptize — to baptize again
- analphabet — an illiterate person unfamiliar with the letters of the alphabet
- angioblast — one of several mesenchymal cells capable of developing into the endothelium of the blood vessels.
- angwantibo — a rare gold-coloured prosimian primate of tropical Africa, Arctocebus calabarensis, having digits that are specialized as a pair of pincers for climbing: family Lorisidae (lorises)
- ankle boot — a boot that extends up as far as the ankle
- antebellum — of or during the period before a war, esp the American Civil War
- antenumber — a number that immediately precedes another: Three is the antenumber of four.
- anti-labor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- antibaryon — the antiparticle of any of the baryons
- antibiosis — an association between two organisms, esp microorganisms, that is harmful to one of them
- antibiotic — Antibiotics are medical drugs used to kill bacteria and treat infections.
- antibodies — any of numerous Y -shaped protein molecules produced by B cells as a primary immune defense, each molecule and its clones having a unique binding site that can combine with the complementary site of a foreign antigen, as on a virus or bacterium, thereby disabling the antigen and signaling other immune defenses. Abbreviation: Ab.
- antibusing — opposed to busing, the policy of transporting students to faraway schools in order to achieve racial balance within the public education system
- antifebrin — acetanilide.
- antirabies — acting against or preventing rabies
- arbutamine — Lb pharmaceutical drug A cardiac stimulant drug.
- athabascan — a family of languages spoken by American Indians in most of inland northwest Canada and Alaska, in coastal Oregon and California, and in Arizona and the Rio Grande basin, and including especially Navajo, Apache, and Chipewyan. Compare family (def 14).
- athabaskan — a family of North American Indian languages, including Chipewyan, Hupa, and Navajo
- attainable — Something that is attainable can be achieved.
- attainably — In a way that can be attained.
- attenuable — Capable of being attenuated.
- babbitting — Present participle of babbitt.
- babblement — (obsolete) babble.
- bacchantes — Plural form of bacchant.
- bacitracin — an antibiotic used mainly in treating bacterial skin infections: obtained from the bacterium Bacillus subtilis
- backbiting — If you accuse someone of backbiting, you mean that they say unpleasant or unkind things about someone who is not present, especially in order to stop them doing well at work.
- backdating — Present participle of backdate.
- backend-to — in a reversed position; backward.
- bafflement — Bafflement is the state of being baffled.
- baking tin — an open metal container in which dough, cake mixture etc can be placed for baking