10-letter words containing d, a, n
- adrenalize — to stir to action; excite: The promise of victory adrenalized the team.
- adrenalone — An adrenergic agonist used as a topical vasoconstrictor and hemostatic.
- adrenergic — releasing or activated by adrenaline or an adrenaline-like substance
- adriamycin — a trade name of the anticancer drug doxorubicin
- adrian iii — Saint, Italian ecclesiastic: pope a.d. 884–885.
- adrianople — Edirne
- adroitness — expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- adsorption — an adsorbing or being adsorbed; adhesion of the molecules of a gas, liquid, or dissolved substance to a surface
- adulations — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
- adulterant — a substance or ingredient that adulterates
- adulterine — of or made by adulteration; fake
- advantaged — A person or place that is advantaged is in a better social or financial position than other people or places.
- advantages — A condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position.
- adventitia — the outermost covering of an organ or part, esp the outer coat of a blood vessel
- adventured — Simple past tense and past participle of adventure.
- adventurer — An adventurer is a person who enjoys going to new, unusual, and exciting places.
- adventures — Plural form of adventure.
- advertence — heedfulness or attentiveness
- advertency — the state or quality of being advertent.
- advisement — consultation; deliberation
- 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
- aedilitian — one of a board of magistrates in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, games, etc.
- 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.
- aforenamed — Named earlier in a document.
- africander — one of a breed of red beef cattle, raised originally in southern Africa, well adapted to high temperatures.
- afrikander — a breed of humpbacked beef cattle originally raised in southern Africa
- agendaless — without an agenda; unplanned; purposeless
- aggrandise — to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend.
- aggrandize — To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
- agonizedly — in an agonized way
- ahmednagar — a city in W India, in Maharashtra: formerly one of the kingdoms of Deccan. Pop: 307 455 (2001)
- 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-minded — interested in or promoting aviation or aircraft
- alabandite — a mineral form of manganese sulphide (MnS) with cubic crystals
- albondigas — Small meatballs, prepared in the Mexican, Spanish, or South American way.
- albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
- albuminoid — resembling albumin
- aldermanic — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- aldermanly — pompous
- aldermanry — the district, office, or rank of an alderman.
- alderwoman — (in England and Wales until 1974) one of the senior female members of a local council, elected by other councillors
- alderwomen — Plural form of alderwoman.
- aleixandre — Vicente (viˈθɛnte). 1898–1984, Spanish poet, whose collections include La destrucción o el amor (1935; Destruction or Love): Nobel prize for literature 1977
- alessandra — a female given name, Italian form of Alexandra.
- alessandri — Jorge [hawr-he] /ˈhɔr hɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1986, Chilean engineer and statesman: president 1958–64.
- alessandro — Victor Nicholas, 1915–76, U.S. orchestra conductor.