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10-letter words containing c, a, n

  • aid agency — an organization that gives money, equipment, or services to people who need them but who cannot provide them for themselves
  • aiken code — (data)   An alternative form of the Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) system for encoding numbers. Where BCD encodes each decimal digit in normal binary, Aiken code uses the encoding shown below. This is supposed to be less prone to corruption. The following table shows the encoding of each decimal digit, D, in BCD and Aiken code: D BCD Aiken 0 0000 0000 1 0001 0001 2 0010 0010 3 0011 0011 4 0100 0100 5 0101 1011 (inverted 4) 6 0110 1100 (inverted 3) 7 0111 1101 (inverted 2) 8 1000 1110 (inverted 1) 9 1001 1111 (inverted 0) The Aiken code was probably designed by Howard Aiken in the 1940s or 1950s for use in data transmission. Compare: Gray code.
  • air casing — a casing for the funnel of a powered vessel, large enough to provide an air space all around the funnel.
  • aircrewman — a member of an aircrew.
  • albescence — becoming white; whitish.
  • albinistic — Of or pertaining to albinism.
  • alcheringa — (often initial capital letter) dreamtime.
  • alcoranist — a person who believes in an absolutely literal interpretation of the Koran.
  • aldermanic — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
  • ale conner — a local official appointed to examine the measure and quality of ale, beer, and bread
  • algolagnic — Of or relating to algolagnia.
  • alice band — an ornamental band worn across the front of the hair to hold it back from the face
  • all'antica — in the manner of the ancients.
  • allegiance — Your allegiance is your support for and loyalty to a particular group, person, or belief.
  • allergenic — causing allergic sensitization.
  • alliancing — Present participle of alliance.
  • 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
  • allogeneic — being genetically different, while belonging to the same species
  • allophonic — any of the members of a class of speech sounds that, taken together, are commonly felt to be a phoneme, as the t- sounds of toe, stow, tree, hatpin, catcall, cats, catnip, button, metal, city; a speech sound constituting one of the phonetic manifestations or variants of a particular phoneme.
  • allowanced — Simple past tense and past participle of allowance.
  • allowances — Plural form of allowance.
  • almucantar — a circle on the celestial sphere parallel to the horizontal plane
  • 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
  • alternance — alternation; regular change
  • altrincham — a residential town in NW England, in Trafford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 40 695 (2001)
  • amarynceus — a king of Messene who ruled Elis with Augeas and who was slain by Nestor in a war against the Pylians.
  • ambisonics — the technique of reproducing and transmitting surround sound
  • ambulances — Plural form of ambulance.
  • amercement — to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
  • americanos — Plural form of americano.
  • amino acid — Amino acids are substances containing nitrogen and hydrogen and which are found in proteins. Amino acids occur naturally in the body.
  • aminoacids — Plural form of aminoacid.
  • ammoniacal — of, containing, using, or resembling ammonia
  • amnioscopy — Examination of a foetus and the amniotic fluid in the lowest part of the amniotic sac using an amnioscope introduced through the cervical canal.
  • 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
  • amphiscian — an inhabitant of the tropics
  • amphogenic — producing both male and female offspring.
  • ampicillin — a semisynthetic penicillin used to treat various infections
  • anacardium — a genus of plants in the Anacardiaceae family found chiefly in tropical areas
  • anachorism — a geographical misplacement; something located in an incongruous position
  • anachronic — out of chronological order or out of date
  • anachronym — Synonym of backronym.
  • anaclastic — relating to refraction
  • anacolutha — Plural form of anacoluthon.
  • anacoustic — unable to support the propagation of sound; soundless
  • anacrustic — Prosody. an unstressed syllable or syllable group that begins a line of verse but is not counted as part of the first foot.
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