10-letter words containing c, e
- adherences — Plural form of adherence.
- adipocytes — Plural form of adipocyte.
- adjacently — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- adjectival — Adjectival means relating to adjectives or like an adjective.
- adjectives — Grammar. any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying, as wise in a wise grandmother, or perfect in a perfect score, or handsome in He is extremely handsome. Other terms, as numbers (one cup; twelve months), certain demonstrative pronouns (this magazine; those questions), and terms that impose limits (each person; no mercy) can also function adjectivally, as can some nouns that are found chiefly in fixed phrases where they immediately precede the noun they modify, as bottle in bottle cap and bus in bus station. Synonyms: modifier, qualifier, identifier, describer, describing word.
- adjudicate — If you adjudicate on a dispute or problem, you make an official judgment or decision about it.
- adjunctive — that constitutes an adjunct
- admiraunce — admirance
- 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.
- adrenergic — releasing or activated by adrenaline or an adrenaline-like substance
- advertence — heedfulness or attentiveness
- advertency — the state or quality of being advertent.
- advocacies — the act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending; active espousal: He was known for his advocacy of states' rights.
- advocaters — Plural form of advocater.
- advocative — characterized by advocating
- aeciospore — any of the spores produced in an aecium of the rust fungi, which spread to and infect the primary host
- aeciostage — the period in their life cycle during which certain rust fungi produce aecia
- aerenchyma — plant tissue with large air-filled spaces, which is typical of aquatic plants and allows air to reach waterlogged parts
- aerobacter — any bacteria of a former genus (Aerobacter) normally found in the intestine: now in either of two genera (Enterobacter or Klebsiella)
- aerobatics — Aerobatics are skilful displays of flying, usually to entertain people watching from the ground.
- aerobeacon — A light used to warn aircraft away from tall structures.
- aerobicize — (of a person) to perform aerobics
- aerobiotic — Of or pertaining to aerobiosis.
- aeromancer — A practitioner of aeromancy.
- aerometric — Describing any measurement of a physical property of air (or other gases), but especially of temperature, pressure and velocity.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- aerophilic — (biology, especially of microorganisms) That thrive in the presence of molecular oxygen.
- aeroponics — aeroculture.
- aeroscepsy — perception of atmospheric conditions, as the perception of odors by the antennae of insects.
- aerostatic — of or relating to aerostatics.
- aerotactic — of movement towards or away from oxygen
- aerotropic — of or relating to the growth of plants towards or away from oxygen
- aeschylean — 525–456 b.c, Greek poet and dramatist.
- aesthetics — Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of the idea of beauty.
- aetiologic — Of or pertaining to an aetiology.
- affectable — having the ability to be influenced or affected by something
- affectedly — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
- affectible — Alternative form of affectable.
- affections — feelings of fondness, esteem
- affectless — showing no emotion or concern for others
- affirmance — a verification, confirmation, or affirmation
- afflictive — causing pain or misery
- affordance — A potential action that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
- affricates — Plural form of affricate.
- africander — one of a breed of red beef cattle, raised originally in southern Africa, well adapted to high temperatures.
- africanize — to make African, esp to give control of (policy, government, etc) to Africans
- afterclaps — Plural form of afterclap.
- afterdecks — Plural form of afterdeck.
- afterpiece — a brief usually comic dramatic piece presented after a play