10-letter words containing a, n, t
- action man — a person who relishes physical activity
- 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.
- actionless — inactive, without action
- activating — Present participle of activate.
- activation — to make active; cause to function or act.
- active sun — the sun at a maximum of solar activity, occurring every 11 years.
- activeness — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- actomyosin — a complex protein in skeletal muscle that is formed by actin and myosin and which, when stimulated, shortens to cause muscle contraction
- actual sin — any sin that a person commits of his own free will and for which he is personally responsible
- actualness — The state or quality of being actual.
- actuations — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- acuminated — Botany, Zoology. pointed; tapering to a point.
- ad initium — at or to the beginning
- ad interim — for the meantime; for the present
- adamantane — a white crystalline alicyclic hydrocarbon, C 10 H 16 , consisting of four fused cyclohexane rings, with the carbon atoms arranged as in the diamond lattice.
- adamantean — of or relating to adamant
- adamantine — very hard; unbreakable or unyielding
- adamantium — A fictional metal that is indestructible or nearly so.
- adaptation — An adaptation of a book or play is a film or a television programme that is based on it.
- adaptogens — Plural form of adaptogen.
- adderstone — a prehistoric ornamental bead
- addictions — Plural form of addiction.
- additament — an addition
- additional — Additional things are extra things apart from the ones already present.
- adelantado — a military title given to Conquistadors allowing the bearer the right to become governor or justice of a region
- adenectomy — surgical removal of a gland
- adenopathy — enlargement of the lymph nodes
- adequation — Equivalence.
- adherently — in an adherent manner
- adiactinic — denoting a substance that does not transmit radiation affecting photochemically sensitive materials, such as a safelight in a photographic darkroom
- adjacently — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- adjudgment — The action of imposing judgment.
- adjunction — (in phrase-structure grammar) the relationship between a branch of a tree representing a sentence to other branches to its left or right that descend from the same node immediately above
- adjunctive — that constitutes an adjunct
- adjuration — a solemn charge or command
- adjustment — An adjustment is a small change that is made to something such as a machine or a way of doing something.
- adjuvanted — (medicine) Modified by addition of an adjuvant.
- administer — If someone administers something such as a country, the law, or a test, they take responsibility for organizing and supervising it.
- admiration — Admiration is a feeling of great liking and respect for a person or thing.
- admittance — Admittance is the act of entering a place or institution or the right to enter it.
- admonition — An admonition is a warning or criticism about someone's behaviour.
- admonitive — relating to admonition; admonitory
- admonitory — admonishing; warning
- adolescent — Adolescent is used to describe young people who are no longer children but who have not yet become adults. It also refers to their behaviour.
- adorations — Plural form of adoration.
- adornments — Plural form of adornment.
- adposition — (grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context.
- adroitness — expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- adsorption — an adsorbing or being adsorbed; adhesion of the molecules of a gas, liquid, or dissolved substance to a surface