10-letter words containing a, t, s
- absumption — (obsolete) Gradual destruction or disintegration; wasting away.
- acanthosis — (medicine) A benign abnormal thickening of the stratum spinosum, or prickle cell, layer of the epidermis.(First attested in the late 19th century.).
- acatalepsy — the state of being impossible to conceive or understand
- acausality — having no cause.
- accentless — having no accent
- acceptions — Plural form of acception.
- accipiters — Plural form of accipiter.
- acclimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acclimate.
- accrescent — (of a calyx or other part) continuing to grow after flowering
- accretions — Plural form of accretion.
- accumbents — Plural form of accumbent.
- accusation — If you make an accusation against someone, you criticize them or express the belief that they have done something wrong.
- accusative — In the grammar of some languages, the accusative, or the accusative case, is the case used for a noun when it is the direct object of a verb, or the object of some prepositions. In English, only the pronouns 'me', 'him', 'her', 'us', and 'them' are in the accusative. Compare nominative.
- accusatory — An accusatory look, remark, or tone of voice suggests blame or criticism.
- accusement — a charge or accusation of wrongdoing or crime
- accustomed — If you are accustomed to something, you know it so well or have experienced it so often that it seems natural, unsurprising, or easy to deal with.
- acetylides — Plural form of acetylide.
- acidulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acidulate.
- acolouthos — the chief of the Varangian guard in the Byzantine empire during the Palaeologan period
- acoustical — acoustic; specif., having to do with the control of sound
- acousticks — Obsolete form of acoustics.
- acquisitor — a person who has a tendency to acquire (information or ideas), or a desire to possess
- acquittals — Plural form of acquittal.
- acrobatics — Acrobatics are acrobatic movements.
- acrobatism — the art, or feats, of the acrobat
- acrostical — relating to an acrostic
- actinopods — any protozoan of the subclass Actinopoda, including the heliozoans and radiolarians, having stiff, rodlike, radiating pseudopodia.
- actionless — inactive, without action
- activators — Plural form of activator.
- active sun — the sun at a maximum of solar activity, occurring every 11 years.
- activeness — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- activistic — of or relating to activism
- activities — the state or quality of being active: There was not much activity in the stock market today. He doesn't have enough physical activity in his life.
- activity's — the state or quality of being active: There was not much activity in the stock market today. He doesn't have enough physical activity in his life.
- actomyosin — a complex protein in skeletal muscle that is formed by actin and myosin and which, when stimulated, shortens to cause muscle contraction
- actual sin — any sin that a person commits of his own free will and for which he is personally responsible
- actualised — Simple past tense and past participle of actualise.
- actualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of actualize.
- actualness — The state or quality of being actual.
- actuations — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- actus reus — a criminal action regarded as a constituent element of a crime, as compared with the state of mind of the perpetrator
- acute dose — a total dose of radiation administered over such a short period that biological recovery is impossible
- adactylous — possessing no fingers or toes
- adam smith — Adam, 1723–90, Scottish economist.
- adaptogens — Plural form of adaptogen.
- adderstone — a prehistoric ornamental bead
- addictions — Plural form of addiction.
- addictives — Plural form of addictive.
- adipocytes — Plural form of adipocyte.
- adjectives — Grammar. any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying, as wise in a wise grandmother, or perfect in a perfect score, or handsome in He is extremely handsome. Other terms, as numbers (one cup; twelve months), certain demonstrative pronouns (this magazine; those questions), and terms that impose limits (each person; no mercy) can also function adjectivally, as can some nouns that are found chiefly in fixed phrases where they immediately precede the noun they modify, as bottle in bottle cap and bus in bus station. Synonyms: modifier, qualifier, identifier, describer, describing word.