10-letter words containing a, s, i, e
- 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.
- 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.
- aisi steel — any steel made to conform to the standard chemical compositions generally accepted by the U.S. steel industry and its principal customers.
- aisle seat — a seat, esp on a plane, situated at the end of a row, adjacent to the aisle
- albigenses — members of a Manichean sect that flourished in S France from the 11th to the 13th century
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- alchemists — Plural form of alchemist.
- alcibiades — 450–404 bc, Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War: brilliant, courageous, and unstable, he defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the Athenian victories at Abydos (411) and Cyzicus (410)
- alcoholise — Alternative spelling of alcoholize.
- alderflies — Plural form of alderfly.
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- alessandri — Jorge [hawr-he] /ˈhɔr hɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1986, Chilean engineer and statesman: president 1958–64.
- alexicacus — an epithet of Apollo, meaning “averter of evil,” in reference to his dispelling a plague that afflicted the Athenian forces in the Peloponnesian War.
- 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.
- alignments — Plural form of alignment.
- alisanders — Alternative form of alexanders (plant).
- aliterates — Plural form of aliterate.
- alkahestic — of or relating to the alkahest
- all smiles — If you say that someone is all smiles, you mean that they look very happy, often when they have previously been worried or upset about something.
- allegories — Plural form of allegory.
- allegorist — a person who writes allegories
- allenstein — German name of Olsztyn.
- allergists — Plural form of allergist.
- alleviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alleviate.
- 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
- 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
- allusively — having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
- almandines — Plural form of almandine.
- alpestrine — (of plants) growing at high altitudes; subalpine
- altimeters — Plural form of altimeter.
- aluminates — Plural form of aluminate.
- alveolitis — an inflammation of the alveoli, occurring either in the lungs or in the socket of a tooth
- amanuensis — a person employed to take dictation or to copy manuscripts
- 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.