10-letter words containing a, n, t
- altitonant — sounding loudly from high above
- altrincham — a residential town in NW England, in Trafford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 40 695 (2001)
- aluminates — Plural form of aluminate.
- amantadine — an antiviral drug used in the treatment of some types of influenza and to reduce some of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease
- amaranthus — Any of the genus Amaranthus; an amaranth.
- amarantine — amaranthine
- amatungula — Natal plum.
- amazements — Plural form of amazement.
- amazon ant — any of several small reddish ants of the genus Polyergus, esp P. rufescens, that enslave the young of other ant species
- 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.
- ameliorant — a thing that ameliorates
- amendation — (US) The result of making an amendment to a document etc; an amendment.
- amendatory — serving to amend; corrective
- amendments — the act of amending or the state of being amended.
- amercement — to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- amianthoid — a fine variety of asbestos, with delicate, flexible filaments.
- aminoplast — amino resin.
- ammoniated — to treat or cause to unite with ammonia.
- ammunition — Ammunition is bullets and rockets that are made to be fired from guns.
- amnestying — Present participle of amnesty.
- amortising — Present participle of amortise.
- amortizing — Present participle of amortize.
- amoscanate — An experimental anthelmintic agent of the arylisothiocyanate class, found to be highly effective in animals against hookworms and the four major species of schistosomes, but possibly hepatotoxic.
- amphictyon — a delegate to an amphictyonic council
- amphitryon — the grandson of Perseus and husband of Alcmene
- ampliation — an extension or addition to what is already known
- amputating — Present participle of amputate.
- amputation — to cut off (all or part of a limb or digit of the body), as by surgery.
- amstelveen — city in W Netherlands: suburb of Amsterdam: pop. 74,000
- amusements — Plural form of amusement.
- 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
- anaclastic — relating to refraction
- anacolutha — Plural form of anacoluthon.
- anacoustic — unable to support the propagation of sound; soundless
- anacrustic — Prosody. an unstressed syllable or syllable group that begins a line of verse but is not counted as part of the first foot.
- anagenetic — Biology. the progressive evolution of a species. Compare catagenesis.
- anaglyptic — Of or pertaining to anaglyptics or to an anaglyph.
- analeptics — Plural form of analeptic.
- analphabet — an illiterate person unfamiliar with the letters of the alphabet
- analytical — An analytical way of doing something involves the use of logical reasoning.
- analytique — an elevation drawing of a façade, surrounded by a decorative arrangement composed of drawings of the important details and sometimes a plan or section of the façade.
- anamnestic — of or relating to anamnesis
- anaplastic — of or relating to anaplasia