10-letter words containing e, t, i
- affrighted — to frighten.
- affrighten — to cause alarm or fright (in)
- affrontive — characterized by a propensity to cause offence
- afterbirth — the placenta and fetal membranes expelled from the uterus after the birth of the offspring
- afterbrain — metencephalon (sense 1)
- afterimage — a sustained or renewed sensation, esp visual, after the original stimulus has ceased
- afterlight — the light visible in the sky after sunset; afterglow.
- afterlives — Plural form of afterlife.
- afterpains — cramplike pains caused by contraction of the uterus after childbirth
- afterpiece — a brief usually comic dramatic piece presented after a play
- afterwhile — (US, dialect) afterwards.
- agapetus i — Saint, died a.d. 536, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 535–536.
- agate line — a unit of measurement for classified advertising space, one column wide and 1⁄14 inch deep
- aggeration — A heaping up; accumulation.
- agitatedly — excited; disturbed.
- agrégation — (in France) a civil service examination for some posts in secondary and higher education
- ahithophel — a member of David's council, who became one of Absalom's advisers in his rebellion and hanged himself when his advice was overruled (II Samuel 15:12–17:23)
- air battle — a fight between the aircraft of two opposing sides in a war
- air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
- air filter — filter that removes dust from air
- air jacket — an air-filled envelope or compartment surrounding a machine or part to reduce the rate at which heat is transferred to or from it
- air letter — an airmail letter
- air pocket — a localized region of low air density or a descending air current, causing an aircraft to suffer an abrupt decrease in height
- 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 ticket — a ticket to travel on a commercial plane
- air travel — transportation in aircraft
- air-intake — an opening in an aircraft through which air is drawn, esp for the engines
- air-to-sea — operating between an aircraft in flight and a target on the sea
- airfreight — a method or service for transporting cargo by air
- airstreams — Plural form of airstream.
- airstrikes — Plural form of airstrike.
- aisi steel — any steel made to conform to the standard chemical compositions generally accepted by the U.S. steel industry and its principal customers.
- aisle seat — a seat, esp on a plane, situated at the end of a row, adjacent to the aisle
- alabandite — a mineral form of manganese sulphide (MnS) with cubic crystals
- albuminate — any of several substances formed from albumin by the action of acid or alkali
- alchemists — Plural form of alchemist.
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- algebraist — an expert in algebra.
- alienating — Present participle of alienate.
- alienation — a turning away; estrangement
- alienative — the state of being alienated, withdrawn, or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection: the group's alienation from mainstream society.
- alienators — Plural form of alienator.
- alightment — a descent or dismount, normally from a mode of transport
- alignments — Plural form of alignment.
- alimentary — of or relating to nutrition
- alineation — the aligning or positioning of objects in a straight line
- alipterion — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room for anointment.
- aliterates — Plural form of aliterate.
- alive with — teeming with; full of (living or moving things)