10-letter words containing a, r, s, e
- afterwards — If you do something or if something happens afterwards, you do it or it happens after a particular event or time that has already been mentioned.
- afterwords — Plural form of afterword.
- aggrandise — to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend.
- aggravates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aggravate.
- aggregates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aggregate.
- aggressing — to commit the first act of hostility or offense; attack first.
- aggression — Aggression is a quality of anger and determination that makes you ready to attack other people.
- aggressive — An aggressive person or animal has a quality of anger and determination that makes them ready to attack other people.
- aggressors — Plural form of aggressor.
- agreements — Plural form of agreement.
- ahorseback — on horseback
- air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
- air shower — a shower of secondary cosmic radiation, caused by the interaction of cosmic radiation or gamma radiation with the atmosphere.
- air strike — An air strike is an attack by military aircraft in which bombs are dropped. This expression is usually used by the country or group that is carrying out the attack.
- air system — a system of refrigeration utilizing air as a coolant.
- air-to-sea — operating between an aircraft in flight and a target on the sea
- airbrasive — a method of removing deposits from the teeth, or rarely, of preparing teeth for filling, by wearing down the surface with an abrasive substance blown by a jet of air
- airbrushed — Simple past tense and past participle of airbrush.
- airbrushes — Plural form of airbrush.
- airstreams — Plural form of airstream.
- airstrikes — Plural form of airstrike.
- alderflies — Plural form of alderfly.
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- alessandra — a female given name, Italian form of Alexandra.
- alessandri — Jorge [hawr-he] /ˈhɔr hɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1986, Chilean engineer and statesman: president 1958–64.
- alessandro — Victor Nicholas, 1915–76, U.S. orchestra conductor.
- alexanders — a biennial umbelliferous plant, Smyrnium olusatrum, native to S Europe, with dense umbels of yellow-green flowers and black fruits
- alexandros — Alexander (def 2).
- algebraist — an expert in algebra.
- alger hiss — Alger, 1904–96, U.S. public official, accused of espionage 1948 and imprisoned for perjury 1950–54.
- alienators — Plural form of alienator.
- alisanders — Alternative form of alexanders (plant).
- aliterates — Plural form of aliterate.
- all square — mutually clear of all debts or obligations
- all-comers — You use all-comers to refer to everyone who wants to take part in an activity, especially a competition.
- all-seater — An all-seater stadium has enough seats for all the audience, rather than having some areas without seats where people stand.
- allegories — Plural form of allegory.
- allegorist — a person who writes allegories
- allergists — Plural form of allergist.
- allomerism — similarity of crystalline structure in substances of different chemical composition
- allosteric — of, relating to, or designating a function of an enzyme in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule
- allotropes — Plural form of allotrope.
- alongshore — close to, by, or along a shore
- alpenhorns — Plural form of alpenhorn.
- alpestrine — (of plants) growing at high altitudes; subalpine
- alternates — Plural form of alternate.
- altimeters — Plural form of altimeter.
- amarynceus — a king of Messene who ruled Elis with Augeas and who was slain by Nestor in a war against the Pylians.
- amateurish — If you describe something as amateurish, you think that it is not skilfully made or done.
- amateurism — Amateurism is the belief that people should take part in sports and other activities as a hobby, for pleasure, rather than as a job, for money.