10-letter words containing c, e, n
- ascendance — the state of being in the ascendant; governing or controlling influence; domination.
- ascendancy — If one group has ascendancy over another group, it has more power or influence than the other group.
- ascendants — Plural form of ascendant.
- ascendence — the state of being in the ascendant; governing or controlling influence; domination.
- ascendency — the state of being in the ascendant; governing or controlling influence; domination.
- ascendible — Capable of being ascended; climbable.
- ascensions — Plural form of ascension.
- ascertains — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- ascogenous — of, relating to, or producing asci.
- ashkenazic — of or relating to the Ashkenazi Jews
- assistance — If you give someone assistance, you help them do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- assurances — Plural form of assurance.
- atef-crown — a symbolic headdress of certain Egyptian gods, as Osiris, and of Egyptian kings, consisting of a tall conical cap flanked by two plumes and bearing representations of the uraeus and the sun.
- athermancy — an inability to transmit radiant heat or infrared radiation
- attachment — If you have an attachment to someone or something, you are fond of them or loyal to them.
- attendance — Someone's attendance at an event or an institution is the fact that they are present at the event or go regularly to the institution.
- attendancy — the condition or quality of accompanying or attending
- auctioneer — An auctioneer is a person in charge of an auction.
- audiogenic — caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency
- aureomycin — chlortetracycline
- austenitic — consisting mainly of austenite.
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- autonoetic — Of or relating to autonoesis.
- avalanched — Simple past tense and past participle of avalanche.
- avalanches — Plural form of avalanche.
- avenaceous — belonging to or of the nature of oats or oat grasses
- avengeance — (obsolete) vengeance.
- avirulence — The state of being avirulent.
- avoidances — Plural form of avoidance.
- avouchment — The act of avouching.
- avunculate — the custom in some societies of assigning rights and duties to a maternal uncle concerning his sister's son
- axenically — in a manner not associated with any other living organism
- bacchantes — Plural form of bacchant.
- back bench — any of the rows of seats occupied by the backbenchers.
- back green — grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement
- backburned — Simple past tense and past participle of backburn.
- backburner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- backend-to — in a reversed position; backward.
- backhanded — A backhanded compliment is a remark which seems to be an insult but could also be understood as a compliment. A backhanded compliment is also a remark which seems to be a compliment but could also be understood as an insult.
- backhander — A backhander is an amount of money that is illegally paid to someone in a position of authority in order to encourage them to do something.
- backplanes — Plural form of backplane.
- backwinded — Simple past tense and past participle of backwind.
- balanchine — George. 1904–83, US choreographer, born in Russia
- balconette — a lightly padded bra that is designed to lift and enhance the appearance of a woman's bust
- balenciaga — Cristobal (krisˈtoβal). 1895–1972, Spanish couturier
- banda aceh — a city in N Indonesia, in N Sumatra; the capital of Aceh region; suffered badly in the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004. Pop: 154 767 (2000)
- bank check — A bank check is a check that you can buy from a bank in order to pay someone who is not willing to accept a personal check.
- bank clerk — an employee of a bank
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- barenecked — Having the neck bare.