10-letter words containing c, e, n, t
- admittance — Admittance is the act of entering a place or institution or the right to enter it.
- adolescent — Adolescent is used to describe young people who are no longer children but who have not yet become adults. It also refers to their behaviour.
- advertence — heedfulness or attentiveness
- advertency — the state or quality of being advertent.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- affections — feelings of fondness, esteem
- 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
- amercement — to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- 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.
- anagenetic — Biology. the progressive evolution of a species. Compare catagenesis.
- analeptics — Plural form of analeptic.
- anamnestic — of or relating to anamnesis
- ancestress — a female ancestor (sense 1) ancestor (sense 4)
- ancestries — Plural form of ancestry.
- anchorette — (in broadcasting) a young and inexperienced anchorwoman
- anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.
- anderlecht — a town in central Belgium, a suburb of Brussels. Pop: 92 755 (2004 est)
- anecdotage — anecdotes collectively
- anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes
- anelectric — not capable of acquiring a static electric charge when subjected to friction.
- anesthetic — relating to, with, or characterized by anesthesia
- annunciate — to announce
- anorectics — Plural form of anorectic.
- antecedent — An antecedent of something happened or existed before it and was similar to it in some way.
- anteceding — to go before, in time, order, rank, etc.; precede: Shakespeare antecedes Milton.
- antecessor — a predecessor; someone who goes or has gone before
- antechapel — the outer part of a chapel at the west end
- anthracene — a colourless tricyclic crystalline solid having a slight blue fluorescence, used in the manufacture of chemicals, esp diphenylamine and alizarin, and as crystals in scintillation counters. Formula: C6H4(CH)2C6H4
- anthracite — Anthracite is a type of very hard coal which burns slowly, producing a lot of heat and very little smoke.
- anticancer — acting against cancer
- anticaries — characterized by an ability to prevent caries
- anticenter — Geology. the point on the surface of the earth diametrically opposite the epicenter of an earthquake.
- antichange — Opposing change.
- antichoice — opposed to granting pregnant women the choice to have an abortion
- anticipate — If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
- anticlines — Plural form of anticline.
- antiemetic — preventing vomiting
- antierotic — discouraging sexual desire
- antiheroic — relating to or in the manner of an antihero
- antipoetic — relating to poetry which does not conform to poetic conventions
- antipolice — opposed to or against the police
- antiseptic — Antiseptic is a substance that kills germs and harmful bacteria.
- antithetic — of the nature of or involving antithesis.
- anucleated — without a nucleus
- aplacental — (of monotremes and marsupials) having no placenta
- apprentice — An apprentice is a young person who works for someone in order to learn their skill.
- arc secant — the angle, measured in radians, that has a secant equal to a given number. Symbol: sec −1. Abbreviation: arc sec;
- archontate — an archon's period in office
- arctangent — the function the value of which for a given argument is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2) the tangent of which is that argument: the inverse of the tangent function