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