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10-letter words containing c, o, i, n

  • advocation — the transfer to itself by a superior court of an action pending in a lower court
  • aeronautic — relating to air companies
  • aeroponics — aeroculture.
  • affections — feelings of fondness, esteem
  • affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
  • aficionada — a female aficionado
  • aficionado — If someone is an aficionado of something, they like it and know a lot about it.
  • afro-chain — (in the Caribbean) a large chain necklace with a central pendant: usually worn with a dashiki by men
  • agonistics — The range of activities associated with aggressive encounters between members of the same species, including threat, attack, appeasement, or retreat.
  • agronomics — the branch of economics dealing with the distribution, management, and productivity of land
  • agrypnotic — inducing, relating to, or characterized by insomnia
  • 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.
  • alcoranist — a person who believes in an absolutely literal interpretation of the Koran.
  • algolagnic — Of or relating to algolagnia.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ambisonics — the technique of reproducing and transmitting surround sound
  • 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.
  • amphictyon — a delegate to an amphictyonic council
  • amphogenic — producing both male and female offspring.
  • anachorism — a geographical misplacement; something located in an incongruous position
  • anachronic — out of chronological order or out of date
  • anacoustic — unable to support the propagation of sound; soundless
  • anagogical — of or relating to an anagoge.
  • analogical — of, expressing, or based upon analogy
  • anamorphic — of, relating to, or caused by anamorphosis or anamorphism
  • anatomical — Anatomical means relating to the structure of the bodies of people and animals.
  • anchor ice — ice that forms at the bottom of a lake or river
  • anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.
  • anchoritic — of or relating to an anchorite
  • anchylosis — (anatomy, medicine) alternative spelling of ankylosis.
  • ancipitous — Alternative form of ancipital.
  • andragogic — the methods or techniques used to teach adults: Many educators believe that the principles of andragogy, as advanced by Malcolm Knowles, have great relevance to adult education; others are not so certain.
  • androecium — the stamens of a flowering plant collectively
  • androgenic — any substance, as testosterone or androsterone, that promotes male characteristics.
  • anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes
  • angiogenic — promoting or relating to blood vessel growth
  • angioscope — An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
  • anharmonic — of or concerned with an oscillation whose frequency is not an integral factor or multiple of the base frequency
  • anhidrotic — curbing the secretion of sweat
  • anisocoria — inequality in the size of the pupils.
  • anisomeric — (of a chemical compound) lacking isomers
  • announcing — Present participle of announce.
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