10-letter words containing a, t, o, n
- agent noun — a noun denoting the doer of an action, as editor or jogger.
- aggeration — A heaping up; accumulation.
- 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.
- agrégation — (in France) a civil service examination for some posts in secondary and higher education
- agronomist — An agronomist is someone who studies the growing and harvesting of crops.
- agrypnotic — inducing, relating to, or characterized by insomnia
- aha moment — an instant at which the solution to a problem becomes clear
- alabastron — a jar characteristically having an elongated shape, narrow neck, flat-rimmed mouth, and rounded base requiring a stand or support, chiefly used for fragrant ointments.
- alcoranist — a person who believes in an absolutely literal interpretation of the Koran.
- alienation — a turning away; estrangement
- alienators — Plural form of alienator.
- alineation — the aligning or positioning of objects in a straight line
- alipterion — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room for anointment.
- aliquoting — Present participle of aliquote.
- alkylation — the attachment of an alkyl group to an organic compound, usually by the addition or substitution of a hydrogen atom or halide group
- allegation — An allegation is a statement saying that someone has done something wrong.
- alligation — the act of joining or the condition of being joined to something
- allocating — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- allocation — An allocation is an amount of something, especially money, that is given to a particular person or used for a particular purpose.
- allochthon — a geological formation not formed in the region where found and moved to its present location by tectonic forces. Compare autochthon (def 3).
- allocution — a formal or authoritative speech or address, esp one that advises, informs, or exhorts
- allotments — Plural form of allotment.
- along with — accompanying; together with
- 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
- alteration — An alteration is a change in or to something.
- alternator — An alternator is a device, used especially in a car, that creates an electrical current that changes direction as it flows.
- altiplanos — Plural form of altiplano.
- altisonant — having an impressive sound
- altitonant — sounding loudly from high above
- amazon ant — any of several small reddish ants of the genus Polyergus, esp P. rufescens, that enslave the young of other ant species
- ambitioned — sought after, desired
- ambulation — to walk about or move from place to place.
- ameliorant — a thing that ameliorates
- amendation — (US) The result of making an amendment to a document etc; an amendment.
- amendatory — serving to amend; corrective
- amianthoid — a fine variety of asbestos, with delicate, flexible filaments.
- aminoplast — amino resin.
- ammoniated — to treat or cause to unite with ammonia.
- ammunition — Ammunition is bullets and rockets that are made to be fired from guns.
- amortising — Present participle of amortise.
- amortizing — Present participle of amortize.
- 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.
- amphictyon — a delegate to an amphictyonic council
- amphitryon — the grandson of Perseus and husband of Alcmene
- ampliation — an extension or addition to what is already known
- amputation — to cut off (all or part of a limb or digit of the body), as by surgery.
- anacolutha — Plural form of anacoluthon.