10-letter words containing g, a, i
- affronting — a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult: an affront to the king.
- afterimage — a sustained or renewed sensation, esp visual, after the original stimulus has ceased
- afterlight — the light visible in the sky after sunset; afterglow.
- 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.
- agglutinin — a substance, such as an antibody or a lectin, that causes agglutination of cells or bacteria
- 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.
- aggressive — An aggressive person or animal has a quality of anger and determination that makes them ready to attack other people.
- aggrieving — Present participle of aggrieve.
- agitatedly — excited; disturbed.
- agitations — Plural form of agitation.
- aglutition — (medicine) Inability to swallow.
- agnoiology — the theory of ignorance
- agonistics — The range of activities associated with aggressive encounters between members of the same species, including threat, attack, appeasement, or retreat.
- agonizedly — in an agonized way
- agrammatic — Of, pertaining to, or afflicted by agrammatism.
- agraphobia — Fear of sexual abuse.
- agreeingly — (obsolete) In a manner that agrees or corresponds.
- agrégation — (in France) a civil service examination for some posts in secondary and higher education
- agricultor — (archaic) An agriculturist; a farmer.
- agrologist — a person who specializes in agrology
- agronomial — of or relating to agronomy
- agronomics — the branch of economics dealing with the distribution, management, and productivity of land
- agronomist — An agronomist is someone who studies the growing and harvesting of crops.
- agrypnotic — inducing, relating to, or characterized by insomnia
- aid agency — an organization that gives money, equipment, or services to people who need them but who cannot provide them for themselves
- air bridge — a link by air transport between two places, esp two places separated by a stretch of sea
- air casing — a casing for the funnel of a powered vessel, large enough to provide an air space all around the funnel.
- air engine — an engine that uses the expansion of heated air to drive a piston
- air guitar — an imaginary guitar played while miming to rock music
- 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 rights — rights to the airspace above a building or lot, regarded as the real property of the one who owns the building or lot
- air spring — an enclosed pocket of air used to absorb shock or sudden fluctuations of load
- air-logged — (of a pump or system of piping) hindered in its functioning by an air lock; air-bound.
- airfreight — a method or service for transporting cargo by air
- airlifting — Present participle of airlift.
- airmailing — Present participle of airmail.
- alarmingly — causing alarm or fear: an alarming case of pneumonia; an alarming lack of respect.
- albigenses — members of a Manichean sect that flourished in S France from the 11th to the 13th century
- albondigas — Small meatballs, prepared in the Mexican, Spanish, or South American way.
- alcheringa — (often initial capital letter) dreamtime.
- algebraist — an expert in algebra.
- alger hiss — Alger, 1904–96, U.S. public official, accused of espionage 1948 and imprisoned for perjury 1950–54.
- algerienne — a brightly striped woolen fabric used for tents, awnings, curtains, etc.
- algolagnia — a perversion in which sexual pleasure is gained from the experience or infliction of pain
- algolagnic — Of or relating to algolagnia.