10-letter words containing e, s, t, r
- afternoons — during the afternoon, esp regularly
- afterpains — cramplike pains caused by contraction of the uterus after childbirth
- aftersales — (business) Alternative form of aftersale.
- aftershaft — a secondary feather arising near the base of a contour feather
- aftershave — Aftershave is a liquid with a pleasant smell that men sometimes put on their faces after shaving.
- aftershock — Aftershocks are smaller earthquakes which occur after a large earthquake.
- afterswarm — a secondary (or tertiary) swarm of bees which leaves the colony after the main swarm has left, in the company of a virgin queen
- aftertaste — An aftertaste is a taste that remains in your mouth after you have finished eating or drinking something.
- afterwards — If you do something or if something happens afterwards, you do it or it happens after a particular event or time that has already been mentioned.
- afterwords — Plural form of afterword.
- aggravates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aggravate.
- aggregates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aggregate.
- agreements — Plural form of agreement.
- air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
- air strike — An air strike is an attack by military aircraft in which bombs are dropped. This expression is usually used by the country or group that is carrying out the attack.
- air system — a system of refrigeration utilizing air as a coolant.
- air-to-sea — operating between an aircraft in flight and a target on the sea
- airstreams — Plural form of airstream.
- airstrikes — Plural form of airstrike.
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- algebraist — an expert in algebra.
- alienators — Plural form of alienator.
- aliterates — Plural form of aliterate.
- all-seater — An all-seater stadium has enough seats for all the audience, rather than having some areas without seats where people stand.
- allegorist — a person who writes allegories
- allergists — Plural form of allergist.
- allosteric — of, relating to, or designating a function of an enzyme in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule
- allotropes — Plural form of allotrope.
- alpestrine — (of plants) growing at high altitudes; subalpine
- alternates — Plural form of alternate.
- altimeters — Plural form of altimeter.
- amateurish — If you describe something as amateurish, you think that it is not skilfully made or done.
- amateurism — Amateurism is the belief that people should take part in sports and other activities as a hobby, for pleasure, rather than as a job, for money.
- amersfoort — a town in the central Netherlands, in E Utrecht province. Pop: 131 000 (2003 est)
- amphiaster — the structure that occurs in a cell undergoing mitosis, consisting of a spindle with an aster at each end
- anastrophe — reversal of the usual order of the parts of a sentence; inversion (Ex.: “Came the dawn”)
- ancestress — a female ancestor (sense 1) ancestor (sense 4)
- ancestries — Plural form of ancestry.
- anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.
- anoestrous — anestrous.
- anorectics — Plural form of anorectic.
- antecessor — a predecessor; someone who goes or has gone before
- anthersmut — a species of parasitic fungus, Ustilago violacea
- anticaries — characterized by an ability to prevent caries
- antiheroes — Plural form of antihero.
- antiherpes — acting against the herpes simplex virus
- antirabies — acting against or preventing rabies
- antiserums — Plural form of antiserum.
- antismoker — a person opposed to tobacco smoking
- antistress — acting to prevent or reduce stress