10-letter words containing a, t, u
- adult home — any of various private residences for former state psychiatric patients, supervised by a department of a state or city government.
- adulterant — a substance or ingredient that adulterates
- adulterate — If something such as food or drink is adulterated, someone has made its quality worse by adding water or cheaper products to it.
- adulterers — Plural form of adulterer.
- adulteress — An adulteress is a woman who commits adultery.
- adulterine — of or made by adulteration; fake
- adulterize — to commit adultery
- adulterous — An adulterous relationship is a sexual relationship between a married person and someone they are not married to. An adulterous person is someone who commits adultery.
- adumbrated — (comparable) Obscured.
- adumbrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adumbrate.
- 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.
- aemulation — Archaic spelling of emulation.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- affettuoso — with feeling
- affluently — in an abundant or wealthy manner
- afterguard — a sailor or group of sailors stationed on the poop to attend to the aft sails
- afterhours — occurring, engaged in, or operating after the normal or legal closing time for business: an after-hours drinking club.
- agapanthus — a liliaceous plant, Agapanthus africanus, of southern Africa, having rounded clusters of blue or white funnel-shaped flowers
- agapetus i — Saint, died a.d. 536, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 535–536.
- agent noun — a noun denoting the doer of an action, as editor or jogger.
- agglutinin — a substance, such as an antibody or a lectin, that causes agglutination of cells or bacteria
- aglutition — (medicine) Inability to swallow.
- 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.
- agricultor — (archaic) An agriculturist; a farmer.
- air guitar — an imaginary guitar played while miming to rock music
- aktyubinsk — city in W Kazakhstan: pop. 248,000
- alabastrum — alabastron.
- alacritous — cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- albumblatt — a short occasional instrumental composition, usually light in character
- albuminate — any of several substances formed from albumin by the action of acid or alkali
- aliquoting — Present participle of aliquote.
- all thumbs — clumsy
- allocution — a formal or authoritative speech or address, esp one that advises, informs, or exhorts
- allurement — fascination; charm.
- almucantar — a circle on the celestial sphere parallel to the horizontal plane
- altazimuth — an instrument for measuring the altitude and azimuth of a celestial body by the horizontal and vertical rotation of a telescope
- alto flute — a large flute pitched a perfect fourth lower than an ordinary flute.
- altocumuli — Plural form of altocumulus.
- altruistic — If your behaviour or motives are altruistic, you show concern for the happiness and welfare of other people rather than for yourself.
- aluminates — Plural form of aluminate.
- alutaceous — Zoology. covered with minute cracks or wrinkles and having a pale, leathery-brown color.
- amaranthus — Any of the genus Amaranthus; an amaranth.
- 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.
- amatorious — amatorial
- amatungula — Natal plum.
- ambulating — Present participle of ambulate.
- ambulation — to walk about or move from place to place.