10-letter words containing a, n, t, i, c
- aprication — the act of sunbathing or basking in the sun
- aragonitic — relating to aragonite
- arefaction — the act of drying, or a dried condition
- arithmancy — divination by the use of numbers, especially by the number of letters in names.
- ascertains — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- ascription — the act of ascribing
- assistance — If you give someone assistance, you help them do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- astricting — Present participle of astrict.
- astriction — to bind fast; constrain.
- astrionics — the science dealing with the application of electronics to astronautics.
- astronomic — of, relating to, or connected with astronomy.
- asyntactic — showing no syntactical rules or regularity
- at a pinch — If you say that something is possible at a pinch, or in American English if you say that something is possible in a pinch, you mean that it would be possible if it was necessary, but it might not be very comfortable or convenient.
- attracting — Present participle of attract.
- attraction — An attraction is a feature which makes something interesting or desirable.
- auctionary — of or relating to auctions or auctioneers
- auctioneer — An auctioneer is a person in charge of an auction.
- auctioning — Present participle of auction.
- austenitic — consisting mainly of austenite.
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- autonoetic — Of or relating to autonoesis.
- autonomics — the study of self-regulating systems for process control
- avocations — Plural form of avocation.
- 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.
- balopticon — a type of stereopticon for projecting images of objects by reflected light.
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- batrachian — any amphibian, esp a frog or toad
- beautician — A beautician is a person whose job is giving people beauty treatments such as doing their nails, treating their skin, and putting on their make-up.
- berecyntia — Cybele.
- betacyanin — any one of a group of red nitrogenous pigments found in certain plants, such as beetroot
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bilocation — the existence of something in two places at the same time
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- branchiate — having gills.
- bratticing — a partition or lining, as of planks or cloth, forming an air passage in a mine.
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- cabineteer — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of a governmental cabinet.
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
- cachinnate — to laugh loudly
- cacotopian — relating to cacotopia
- caffeinate — To add caffeine.
- calcitonin — a hormone secreted by the thyroid that inhibits the release of calcium from the skeleton and prevents a build-up of calcium in the blood
- calcitrant — Stubborn; refractory.
- calcsinter — travertine.
- calumniate — to slander
- cameration — vaulting
- camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.