10-letter words containing g, a, n
- aeruginous — bluish-green, like copper rust
- affiancing — Present participle of affiance.
- afflicting — deeply distressing; painful
- affrighten — to cause alarm or fright (in)
- affronting — a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult: an affront to the king.
- agapanthus — a liliaceous plant, Agapanthus africanus, of southern Africa, having rounded clusters of blue or white funnel-shaped flowers
- agate line — a unit of measurement for classified advertising space, one column wide and 1⁄14 inch deep
- agency fee — a fee charged by an agency
- agendaless — without an agenda; unplanned; purposeless
- agent noun — a noun denoting the doer of an action, as editor or jogger.
- 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.
- aggrieving — Present participle of aggrieve.
- 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
- agony aunt — An agony aunt is a person who writes a column in a newspaper or magazine in which they reply to readers who have written to them for advice on their personal problems.
- agreeingly — (obsolete) In a manner that agrees or corresponds.
- agreements — Plural form of agreement.
- agrégation — (in France) a civil service examination for some posts in secondary and higher education
- 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
- ahmednagar — a city in W India, in Maharashtra: formerly one of the kingdoms of Deccan. Pop: 307 455 (2001)
- aid agency — an organization that gives money, equipment, or services to people who need them but who cannot provide them for themselves
- 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 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 spring — an enclosed pocket of air used to absorb shock or sudden fluctuations of load
- 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.
- alba longa — a city of ancient Latium, southeast of modern Rome: the legendary birthplace of Romulus and Remus
- alban berg — Alban [ahl-bahn,, ahl-bahn] /ɑlˈbɑn,, ˈɑl bɑn/ (Show IPA), 1885–1935, Austrian composer.
- 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.
- 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.
- algonquian — a family of North American Indian languages whose speakers ranged over an area stretching from the Atlantic between Newfoundland and Delaware to the Rocky Mountains, including Micmac, Mahican, Ojibwa, Fox, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Shawnee. Some linguists relate it to Muskogean in a Macro-Algonquian phylum
- alienating — Present participle of alienate.
- alightment — a descent or dismount, normally from a mode of transport