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10-letter words containing c, a, n

  • accruement — the action of accruing
  • accubation — the action or state of leaning backwards, esp at a table for meals
  • accumbency — (rare) The state of being accumbent or reclining.
  • accumbents — Plural form of accumbent.
  • accuminate — Tapering to a point.
  • accusation — If you make an accusation against someone, you criticize them or express the belief that they have done something wrong.
  • accusement — a charge or accusation of wrongdoing or crime
  • accusingly — to charge with the fault, offense, or crime (usually followed by of): He accused him of murder.
  • acerbating — Present participle of acerbate.
  • acerbation — (rare) Bitterness of feeling.
  • acervation — a heaping or piling up, gathering, accumulation
  • acetanilid — Alternative form of acetanilide.
  • acetifying — Present participle of acetify.
  • acetonemia — ketonemia.
  • acetonuria — ketonuria.
  • acetylenic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to acetylene or its derivatives; having a carbon-to-carbon triple bond.
  • achaemenes — flourished 7th century b.c, Persian king: traditional founder of the Achaemenid dynasty.
  • achaemenid — any member of a Persian dynasty of kings, including Cyrus the Great, that ruled from about 550 to 331 bc, when Darius III was overthrown by Alexander the Great
  • acherontic — Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
  • achondrite — a rare stony meteorite that consists mainly of silicate minerals and has the texture of igneous rock but contains no chondrules
  • achromatin — the material of the nucleus of a cell that does not stain with basic dyes
  • achromycin — tetracycline
  • acidifying — Present participle of acidify.
  • acidogenic — producing acid, as bacteria, or causing acidity, as of the urine.
  • acinaceous — containing or consisting of kernels, particularly the seeds or stones of grapes
  • acinarious — covered with globose vesicles resembling grape seeds, as certain algae.
  • acknowledg — Obsolete form of acknowledge.
  • acorn tube — a small vacuum tube shaped like an acorn
  • acorn worm — any of various small burrowing marine animals of the genus Balanoglossus and related genera, having an elongated wormlike body with an acorn-shaped eversible proboscis at the head end: subphylum Hemichordata (hemichordates)
  • acotyledon — any plant, such as a fern or moss, that does not possess cotyledons
  • acquainted — If you are acquainted with something, you know about it because you have learned it or experienced it.
  • acquitment — a verdict of not guilty; an acquittal
  • acquitting — Present participle of acquit.
  • acrogenous — (botany) Increasing by growth from the extremity.
  • acrogynous — having the female reproductive organ arising from the apical cell of the stem, thereby terminating its growth, as certain liverworts.
  • acronychal — occurring at sunset
  • acronyming — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
  • acronymous — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
  • acrophonic — the use of what was originally a logogram as a phonetic symbol for the initial sound of the word the logogram represented, as, in Semitic writing, the use of a picture of a shepherd's crook to represent the sound (l), the first sound of lamed, the Hebrew word for a shepherd's crook.
  • acroterion — acroterium.
  • actiniform — having radial form; rayed
  • actinogram — the record produced by the action of an actinograph.
  • actinolite — a green mineral of the amphibole group consisting of calcium magnesium iron silicate. Formula: Ca2(Mg,Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2
  • actinology — the science of light rays and their chemical effects
  • actinopods — any protozoan of the subclass Actinopoda, including the heliozoans and radiolarians, having stiff, rodlike, radiating pseudopodia.
  • actinozoan — anthozoan
  • action man — a person who relishes physical activity
  • actionable — If something that you do or say to someone is actionable, it gives them a valid reason for bringing a legal case against you.
  • actionably — In an actionable manner.
  • actionless — inactive, without action
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