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10-letter words containing a, s, e, o

  • all-elbows — (jargon)   Said of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) mess-dos program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on BBS systems: unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident. One particularly common form of rudeness is lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard interrupt.
  • allegories — Plural form of allegory.
  • allegorist — a person who writes allegories
  • alliaceous — of or relating to Allium, a genus of plants that have a strong onion or garlic smell and often have bulbs: family Alliaceae. The genus occurs in the N hemisphere and includes onion, garlic, leek, chive, and shallot
  • allomerism — similarity of crystalline structure in substances of different chemical composition
  • allophones — Plural form of allophone.
  • 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
  • allotheism — the worship of gods foreign to one's own land or culture
  • allotments — Plural form of allotment.
  • allotropes — Plural form of allotrope.
  • allowables — that may be allowed; legitimate; permissible: an allowable tax deduction.
  • allowances — Plural form of allowance.
  • almshouses — Plural form of almshouse.
  • aloes wood — eaglewood
  • alongshore — close to, by, or along a shore
  • alpenhorns — Plural form of alpenhorn.
  • alpenstock — an early form of ice axe, consisting of a stout stick with an iron tip and sometimes having a pick and adze at the head, formerly used by mountain climbers
  • alutaceous — Zoology. covered with minute cracks or wrinkles and having a pale, leathery-brown color.
  • alveolitis — an inflammation of the alveoli, occurring either in the lungs or in the socket of a tooth
  • ambilevous — (rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
  • amebocytes — Plural form of amebocyte, an alternative spelling of amoebocyte.
  • ameloblast — a type of cell involved in forming dental enamel
  • americanos — Plural form of americano.
  • amersfoort — a town in the central Netherlands, in E Utrecht province. Pop: 131 000 (2003 est)
  • ammocoetes — Plural form of ammocoete.
  • ammonifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ammonify.
  • amoebiasis — infection, esp of the intestines, caused by the parasitic amoeba Endamoeba histolytica
  • 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.
  • ampelopsis — any woody vine of the vitaceous genus Ampelopsis, of tropical and subtropical Asia and America
  • amylaceous — of or resembling starch
  • anaerobies — (biology) anaerobes.
  • analogised — Simple past tense and past participle of analogise.
  • analogizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of analogize.
  • anastomose — to join (two parts of a blood vessel, etc) by anastomosis
  • anastrophe — reversal of the usual order of the parts of a sentence; inversion (Ex.: “Came the dawn”)
  • anatomizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anatomize.
  • anchorages — Plural form of anchorage.
  • anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.
  • anchorless — without an anchor
  • androgynes — Plural form of androgyne.
  • andropause — the period, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55, during which a man's testosterone levels may fall, leading to a reduction in vigour and sexual drive
  • androspore — the zoospore of certain algae that develops into a small male plant producing antherozoids.
  • anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes
  • anemoscope — any device that shows the presence and direction of a wind
  • anemotaxis — oriented movement in response to a current of air.
  • angioscope — An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
  • angiosperm — any seed-bearing plant of the phylum Angiospermophyta (division Angiospermae in traditional systems), in which the ovules are enclosed in an ovary, which develops into the fruit after fertilization; any flowering plant
  • angle shot — a picture taken with the camera pointed obliquely at the subject, sometimes causing distortion of perspective and proportion.
  • anglepoise — a type of lamp with joints and spring tension that allow it to be placed in a wide range of positions
  • anisomeric — (of a chemical compound) lacking isomers
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