10-letter words containing a, t, n
- adulations — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
- adulterant — a substance or ingredient that adulterates
- adulterine — of or made by adulteration; fake
- advantaged — A person or place that is advantaged is in a better social or financial position than other people or places.
- advantages — A condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position.
- adventitia — the outermost covering of an organ or part, esp the outer coat of a blood vessel
- adventured — Simple past tense and past participle of adventure.
- adventurer — An adventurer is a person who enjoys going to new, unusual, and exciting places.
- adventures — Plural form of adventure.
- advertence — heedfulness or attentiveness
- advertency — the state or quality of being advertent.
- advisement — consultation; deliberation
- advocating — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- advocation — the transfer to itself by a superior court of an action pending in a lower court
- aedilitian — one of a board of magistrates in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, games, etc.
- aemulation — Archaic spelling of emulation.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- aeronomist — a scientist who studies the upper atmosphere
- aethelstan — Athelstan
- affections — feelings of fondness, esteem
- affeerment — the act of deciding upon or settling penalties or fines
- afferently — in a manner moving to the centre or inwards
- affinities — a natural liking for or attraction to a person, thing, idea, etc.
- affinition — (rare) The state or quality of being affined; mental affinity or attraction.
- affinitive — characterized by affinity; closely related or associated.
- affixation — affixture
- afflicting — deeply distressing; painful
- affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
- affluently — in an abundant or wealthy manner
- affrighten — to cause alarm or fright (in)
- affronting — a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult: an affront to the king.
- affrontive — characterized by a propensity to cause offence
- aflatoxins — Plural form of aflatoxin.
- africanist — a person specializing in the study of African affairs or culture
- after next — You use after next in expressions such as the week after next to refer to a period of time after the next one. For example, when it is May, the month after next is July.
- afterbrain — metencephalon (sense 1)
- afternoone — Obsolete spelling of afternoon.
- afternoons — during the afternoon, esp regularly
- afterpains — cramplike pains caused by contraction of the uterus after childbirth
- agapanthus — a liliaceous plant, Agapanthus africanus, of southern Africa, having rounded clusters of blue or white funnel-shaped flowers
- agate line — a unit of measurement for classified advertising space, one column wide and 1⁄14 inch deep
- agent noun — a noun denoting the doer of an action, as editor or jogger.
- aggeration — A heaping up; accumulation.
- agglutinin — a substance, such as an antibody or a lectin, that causes agglutination of cells or bacteria
- agitations — Plural form of agitation.
- aglutition — (medicine) Inability to swallow.
- agonistics — The range of activities associated with aggressive encounters between members of the same species, including threat, attack, appeasement, or retreat.
- agony aunt — An agony aunt is a person who writes a column in a newspaper or magazine in which they reply to readers who have written to them for advice on their personal problems.
- agreements — Plural form of agreement.
- agrégation — (in France) a civil service examination for some posts in secondary and higher education