10-letter words containing d, a, c
- africander — one of a breed of red beef cattle, raised originally in southern Africa, well adapted to high temperatures.
- afterdecks — Plural form of afterdeck.
- aid agency — an organization that gives money, equipment, or services to people who need them but who cannot provide them for themselves
- 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.
- air-cooled — An air-cooled engine is prevented from getting too hot when it is running by cool air that passes over it, rather than being cooled by a liquid.
- alaska cod — a cod, Gadus macrocephalus.
- alchemized — Simple past tense and past participle of alchemize.
- alcibiades — 450–404 bc, Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War: brilliant, courageous, and unstable, he defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the Athenian victories at Abydos (411) and Cyzicus (410)
- aldermanic — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- alice band — an ornamental band worn across the front of the hair to hold it back from the face
- allowanced — Simple past tense and past participle of allowance.
- altar card — one of three cards having certain portions of the Mass printed on them, placed upright on the altar to assist the memory of the celebrant.
- ambuscaded — Simple past tense and past participle of ambuscade.
- ambuscader — a person waiting in ambush; an ambusher
- ambuscades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambuscade.
- 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.
- anacardium — a genus of plants in the Anacardiaceae family found chiefly in tropical areas
- anchor bed — a sloping, slightly projecting platform on the forecastle of a ship, for supporting an anchor when not in use.
- andalucian — from or relating to Andalusía
- anderlecht — a town in central Belgium, a suburb of Brussels. Pop: 92 755 (2004 est)
- 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.
- androcracy — social and political rule by men.
- androecium — the stamens of a flowering plant collectively
- androgenic — any substance, as testosterone or androsterone, that promotes male characteristics.
- andromache — the wife of Hector
- anecdotage — anecdotes collectively
- anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes
- anglecized — Misspelling of anglicized.
- anglicised — Made into a form similar to that used by the English.
- anglicized — having become or been made English in outlook, attitude, form, etc
- anhidrotic — curbing the secretion of sweat
- anodically — In an anodic manner.
- 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.
- anthracoid — resembling anthrax
- anticodons — Plural form of anticodon.
- antidromic — (of nerve fibres) conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal
- anucleated — without a nucleus
- aphidicide — substance for killing aphids
- apocopated — to shorten by apocope.
- apodeictic — unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration
- appendance — attached or suspended; annexed.
- appendence — attached or suspended; annexed.
- appendical — (generally, chiefly of a book's or of books') Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an appendix or appendices.
- appendices — Appendices is a plural form of appendix.
- appendicle — a small appendage
- approached — to come near or nearer to: The cars slowed down as they approached the intersection.
- arachnidan — (zoology) Any of the Arachnida.
- arachnoids — Plural form of arachnoid.