10-letter words containing d, a, c
- acidophils — Plural form of acidophil.
- acidulated — Simple past tense and past participle of acidulate.
- acidulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acidulate.
- acknowledg — Obsolete form of acknowledge.
- acotyledon — any plant, such as a fern or moss, that does not possess cotyledons
- acquainted — If you are acquainted with something, you know about it because you have learned it or experienced it.
- acquiesced — to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.
- acrylamide — a chemical compound that forms in certain foods when exposed to high temperature
- act of god — An act of God is an event that is beyond human control, especially one in which something is damaged or someone is hurt.
- actinopods — any protozoan of the subclass Actinopoda, including the heliozoans and radiolarians, having stiff, rodlike, radiating pseudopodia.
- actualised — Simple past tense and past participle of actualise.
- actualized — Simple past tense and past participle of actualize.
- acuminated — Botany, Zoology. pointed; tapering to a point.
- acute dose — a total dose of radiation administered over such a short period that biological recovery is impossible
- ad-hockery — reliance on temporary solutions rather than on consistent, long-term plans.
- adactylous — possessing no fingers or toes
- adam's cup — pitcher plant.
- addictions — Plural form of addiction.
- addictives — Plural form of addictive.
- adenectomy — surgical removal of a gland
- adequacies — Plural form of adequacy.
- adherences — Plural form of adherence.
- adhocratic — Relating to adhocracy.
- adiactinic — denoting a substance that does not transmit radiation affecting photochemically sensitive materials, such as a safelight in a photographic darkroom
- adipocytes — Plural form of adipocyte.
- adirondack — a member of an Algonquian people living mainly north of the St. Lawrence River.
- 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.
- adjunction — (in phrase-structure grammar) the relationship between a branch of a tree representing a sentence to other branches to its left or right that descend from the same node immediately above
- 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
- adriamycin — a trade name of the anticancer drug doxorubicin
- 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.
- advocating — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- advocation — the transfer to itself by a superior court of an action pending in a lower court
- advocative — characterized by advocating
- advocators — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- advocatory — of an advocate
- affectedly — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
- affordance — A potential action that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
- aficionada — a female aficionado
- aficionado — If someone is an aficionado of something, they like it and know a lot about it.