10-letter words containing e, t
- attenuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attenuate.
- attenuator — any device designed to reduce the power of a wave or electrical signal without distorting it
- attestable — Able to be attested.
- attic base — (in classical architecture) a base for a column, consisting of an upper and a lower torus separated by a scotia between two fillets.
- attirement — dress; attire.
- attonement — Misspelling of atonement.
- attoparsec — (unit, humour) About 31 mm (one inch). "atto-" is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^-18. A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attoparsec is thus 3.26 * 10^-18 light years. Thus, one attoparsec per microfortnight is about one inch per second. This unit is reported to be in use (though probably not very seriously) among hackers in the UK.
- attornment — (feudal legal) The consent of a tenant to the transfer of his relationship to his landlord to another person.
- attractive — A person who is attractive is pleasant to look at.
- attributed — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- attributer — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- attributes — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- attunement — an attuning or act of making harmonious
- au naturel — naked; nude
- aubergiste — an innkeeper or hotelier
- auctioneer — An auctioneer is a person in charge of an auction.
- audacities — Plural form of audacity.
- audiometer — an instrument for testing the intensity and frequency range of sound that is capable of detection by the human ear
- audiometry — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- audiotapes — Plural form of audiotape.
- auditioned — Simple past tense and past participle of audition.
- auditionee — a person who competes or takes part in an audition.
- auditioner — a person who attends an audition
- augmenting — to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase: His salary is augmented by a small inheritance.
- augustness — inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
- auntie man — an effeminate or homosexual male
- auriculate — having ears
- auscultate — to examine (a patient) by means of auscultation
- auspicated — Simple past tense and past participle of auspicate.
- austenitic — consisting mainly of austenite.
- austerlitz — a town in the Czech Republic, in Moravia: site of Napoleon's victory over the Russian and Austrian armies in 1805. Pop: 1795 (2007 est)
- australite — a glassy object made of molten rock found in the earth of Southern Australia
- austringer — a person who keeps goshawks
- autarchies — Plural form of autarchy.
- autecology — the ecological study of an individual organism or species
- auteurists — Plural form of auteurist.
- auth. ver. — Authorized Version (of the Bible)
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- authorised — Alternative spelling of authorized.
- authorises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authorise.
- authoritie — Obsolete spelling of authority.
- authorized — officially permitted or empowered
- authorizer — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authorize.
- authorless — having no author; anonymous
- authourize — Rare spelling of authorize.
- auto de fe — auto-da-fé
- auto-da-fe — a ceremony of the Spanish Inquisition including the pronouncement and execution of sentences passed on sinners or heretics
- autochrome — a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet.
- autoclaved — Simple past tense and past participle of autoclave.