10-letter words containing e, n
- afterpains — cramplike pains caused by contraction of the uterus after childbirth
- agate line — a unit of measurement for classified advertising space, one column wide and 1⁄14 inch deep
- agency fee — a fee charged by an agency
- agendaless — without an agenda; unplanned; purposeless
- agent noun — a noun denoting the doer of an action, as editor or jogger.
- aggeration — A heaping up; accumulation.
- 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.
- aggressing — to commit the first act of hostility or offense; attack first.
- aggression — Aggression is a quality of anger and determination that makes you ready to attack other people.
- aggrieving — Present participle of aggrieve.
- agonizedly — in an agonized way
- agreeingly — (obsolete) In a manner that agrees or corresponds.
- agreements — Plural form of agreement.
- agrégation — (in France) a civil service examination for some posts in secondary and higher education
- aha moment — an instant at which the solution to a problem becomes clear
- ahmednagar — a city in W India, in Maharashtra: formerly one of the kingdoms of Deccan. Pop: 307 455 (2001)
- ahvenanmaa — group of Finn. islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia: 590 sq mi (1,528 sq km); pop. 25,000
- 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 engine — an engine that uses the expansion of heated air to drive a piston
- air hunger — deep, rapid, and labored breathing caused by an increased respiratory drive due to abnormally low blood oxygen levels, as in severe heart failure or asthma.
- air-intake — an opening in an aircraft through which air is drawn, esp for the engines
- air-minded — interested in or promoting aviation or aircraft
- aircrewman — a member of an aircrew.
- alabandite — a mineral form of manganese sulphide (MnS) with cubic crystals
- alanbrooke — Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount. 1883–1963, British field marshal; chief of Imperial General Staff (1941–46)
- alban berg — Alban [ahl-bahn,, ahl-bahn] /ɑlˈbɑn,, ˈɑl bɑn/ (Show IPA), 1885–1935, Austrian composer.
- albescence — becoming white; whitish.
- albigenses — members of a Manichean sect that flourished in S France from the 11th to the 13th century
- albumenize — to coat with a solution containing albumen or albumin
- albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
- albuminate — any of several substances formed from albumin by the action of acid or alkali
- albuminize — to convert into albumin
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- alcheringa — (often initial capital letter) dreamtime.
- 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.
- ale conner — a local official appointed to examine the measure and quality of ale, beer, and bread
- aleixandre — Vicente (viˈθɛnte). 1898–1984, Spanish poet, whose collections include La destrucción o el amor (1935; Destruction or Love): Nobel prize for literature 1977
- aleph-null — the smallest infinite cardinal number; the cardinal number of the set of positive integers
- 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.
- alexanders — a biennial umbelliferous plant, Smyrnium olusatrum, native to S Europe, with dense umbels of yellow-green flowers and black fruits
- alexandria — the chief port of Egypt, on the Nile Delta: cultural centre of ancient times, founded by Alexander the Great (332 bc). Pop: 3 760 000 (2005 est)
- alexandros — Alexander (def 2).