10-letter words containing g, a, n
- arrogating — Present participle of arrogate.
- arrogation — to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneself without right: to arrogate the right to make decisions.
- art lining — a system for aligning type in which the baseline is established some distance above the bottom of the body to accommodate letters with unusually long descenders.
- as against — If you discuss a particular set of facts or figures as against another set, you are comparing or contrasting the two sets of facts or figures.
- as long as — If you say that something is the case as long as or so long as something else is the case, you mean that it is only the case if the second thing is the case.
- ascogenous — of, relating to, or producing asci.
- ascogonium — a female reproductive body in some ascomycetous fungi in which, after fertilization, the asci develop
- asgeirsson — Asgeir [ahs-gair] /ˈɑs gɛər/ (Show IPA), 1894–1972, Icelandic statesman: president 1952–68.
- asking bid — a conventional bid by which a bidder asks for specific information about the strength of his or her partner's hand in a given suit.
- asparagine — a nonessential amino acid, a component of proteins
- asperating — to make rough, harsh, or uneven: a voice asperated by violent emotion.
- asphalting — any of various dark-colored, solid, bituminous substances, native in various areas of the earth and composed mainly of hydrocarbon mixtures.
- aspirating — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
- aspiringly — in an aspiring manner
- assaulting — Present participle of assault.
- assembling — to bring together or gather into one place, company, body, or whole.
- assignable — capable of being specified: The word has no assignable meaning in our language.
- assignment — An assignment is a task or piece of work that you are given to do, especially as part of your job or studies.
- asskicking — to kick ass. See kick (def 33).
- assumingly — in a presuming manner
- assuringly — In an assuring manner.
- astounding — If something is astounding, you are shocked or amazed that it could exist or happen.
- astragalin — A chemical compound, a 3-O-glucoside of kaempferol, found in Phytolacca americana, the American pokeweed.
- astricting — Present participle of astrict.
- astringent — An astringent is a liquid that you put on your skin to make it less oily or to make cuts stop bleeding.
- astringing — Present participle of astringe.
- atrophying — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attainting — Present participle of attaint.
- attempting — to make an effort at; try; undertake; seek: to attempt an impossible task; to attempt to walk six miles.
- attendings — physicians who attend to patients in a hospital
- attracting — Present participle of attract.
- aubergines — Plural form of aubergine.
- auctioning — Present participle of auction.
- audiogenic — caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency
- aufklarung — the Enlightenment, esp in Germany
- augmenting — to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase: His salary is augmented by a small inheritance.
- auguration — The practice of augury.
- augustness — inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
- aurangabad — city in central Maharashtra, W India: pop. 573,000
- ausforming — a treatment to strengthen hard steels, prior to quenching, in which the specimen is plastically deformed while it is in the austenite temperature range
- austringer — a person who keeps goshawks
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- autogenous — originating within the body
- autognosis — Self-knowledge; the understanding of one's character and peculiarities.
- automaking — The manufacture of automobiles.
- automating — Present participle of automate.
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- autosexing — the breeding of birds to reveal specific sexual characteristics
- avantgarde — the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.
- avengeance — (obsolete) vengeance.