10-letter words containing a, s
- answerable — If you are answerable to someone, you have to report to them and explain your actions.
- answerback — a reply or answering message from a computer or other electronic device, as by means of teletypewriter or simulated voice.
- answerless — not having or offering an answer
- ant-thrush — any of several antbirds, especially of the genus Formicarius.
- antagonise — to make hostile or unfriendly; make an enemy or antagonist of: His speech antagonized many voters.
- antagonism — Antagonism between people is hatred or dislike between them. Antagonisms are instances of this.
- antagonist — Your antagonist is your opponent or enemy.
- antecessor — a predecessor; someone who goes or has gone before
- anthemwise — alternately
- anthersmut — a species of parasitic fungus, Ustilago violacea
- anthozoans — Plural form of anthozoan.
- anthuriums — Plural form of anthurium.
- anti-alias — to process (a digital graphic image) so that it has a smooth, rather than a jagged, edge
- anti-mason — a member of the Anti-Masonic party or a supporter of its principles.
- anti-state — the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes: a state of health.
- anti-story — a narrative of short-story length that makes no effort to follow a plot and ignores structural conventions, character motivations, and the like.
- anti-virus — Anti-virus software is software that protects a computer against viruses.
- antiaditis — tonsillitis
- antiasthma — relating to drugs that act against asthma
- antibiosis — an association between two organisms, esp microorganisms, that is harmful to one of them
- antibodies — any of numerous Y -shaped protein molecules produced by B cells as a primary immune defense, each molecule and its clones having a unique binding site that can combine with the complementary site of a foreign antigen, as on a virus or bacterium, thereby disabling the antigen and signaling other immune defenses. Abbreviation: Ab.
- antibusing — opposed to busing, the policy of transporting students to faraway schools in order to achieve racial balance within the public education system
- anticaries — characterized by an ability to prevent caries
- antichrist — the antagonist of Christ, expected by early Christians to appear and reign over the world until overthrown at Christ's Second Coming
- anticivism — opposition to citizenship
- anticlines — Plural form of anticline.
- anticodons — Plural form of anticodon.
- antiheroes — Plural form of antihero.
- antiherpes — acting against the herpes simplex virus
- antilochus — a son of Nestor and a trusted friend of Achilles.
- antilogies — Plural form of antilogy.
- antilogism — a group of three inconsistent propositions, two of which are premises of a syllogism that contradict the third.
- antilogous — having the opposite name or character
- antimachus — Also called the Colophonian. flourished c410 b.c, Greek poet.
- antimasque — a comic or grotesque dance, presented between the acts of a masque
- antimonous — of or containing antimony in the trivalent state
- antinausea — preventing or alleviating nausea
- antinomies — Plural form of antinomy.
- antinovels — Plural form of antinovel.
- antiquarks — Plural form of antiquark.
- antiquates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of antiquate.
- antirabies — acting against or preventing rabies
- antiracism — the policy of challenging racism and promoting racial tolerance
- antiracist — a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- antischool — Opposed to schools.
- antisepsis — destruction of undesirable microorganisms, such as those that cause disease or putrefaction
- antiseptic — Antiseptic is a substance that kills germs and harmful bacteria.
- antiserums — Plural form of antiserum.
- antisexism — attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of gender roles.
- antisexist — a person opposed to sexism