10-letter words containing i, a, n
- abstention — Abstention is a formal act of not voting either for or against a proposal.
- abstersion — the act of wiping clean or cleansing
- abstinence — Abstinence is the practice of abstaining from something such as alcoholic drink or sex, often for health or religious reasons.
- abstinency — the quality of being abstinent
- absumption — (obsolete) Gradual destruction or disintegration; wasting away.
- abu hanifa — a.d. 699–767, Islamic scholar and founder of one of the schools of Islamic law.
- abyssinian — a native or inhabitant of Abyssinia
- acanthosis — (medicine) A benign abnormal thickening of the stratum spinosum, or prickle cell, layer of the epidermis.(First attested in the late 19th century.).
- acceptions — Plural form of acception.
- accessions — Plural form of accession.
- accidences — the rudiments or essentials of a subject.
- accidental — An accidental event happens by chance or as the result of an accident, and is not deliberately intended.
- accidented — having been subjected to an accident
- accidently — happening by chance or accident; not planned; unexpected: an accidental meeting.
- acclaiming — Present participle of acclaim.
- accordions — Plural form of accordion.
- accounting — Accounting is the activity of keeping detailed records of the amounts of money a business or person receives and spends.
- accoutring — Present participle of accoutre.
- accretions — Plural form of accretion.
- accrington — a town in NW England, in SE Lancashire. Pop: 35 203 (2001)
- accubation — the action or state of leaning backwards, esp at a table for meals
- accuminate — Tapering to a point.
- accusation — If you make an accusation against someone, you criticize them or express the belief that they have done something wrong.
- accusingly — to charge with the fault, offense, or crime (usually followed by of): He accused him of murder.
- acerbating — Present participle of acerbate.
- acerbation — (rare) Bitterness of feeling.
- acervation — a heaping or piling up, gathering, accumulation
- acetanilid — Alternative form of acetanilide.
- acetifying — Present participle of acetify.
- acetonemia — ketonemia.
- acetonuria — ketonuria.
- acetylenic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to acetylene or its derivatives; having a carbon-to-carbon triple bond.
- achaemenid — any member of a Persian dynasty of kings, including Cyrus the Great, that ruled from about 550 to 331 bc, when Darius III was overthrown by Alexander the Great
- acherontic — Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
- achondrite — a rare stony meteorite that consists mainly of silicate minerals and has the texture of igneous rock but contains no chondrules
- achromatin — the material of the nucleus of a cell that does not stain with basic dyes
- achromycin — tetracycline
- acidifying — Present participle of acidify.
- acidogenic — producing acid, as bacteria, or causing acidity, as of the urine.
- acinaceous — containing or consisting of kernels, particularly the seeds or stones of grapes
- acinarious — covered with globose vesicles resembling grape seeds, as certain algae.
- acquainted — If you are acquainted with something, you know about it because you have learned it or experienced it.
- acquitment — a verdict of not guilty; an acquittal
- acquitting — Present participle of acquit.
- acronyming — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- acrophonic — the use of what was originally a logogram as a phonetic symbol for the initial sound of the word the logogram represented, as, in Semitic writing, the use of a picture of a shepherd's crook to represent the sound (l), the first sound of lamed, the Hebrew word for a shepherd's crook.
- acroterion — acroterium.
- actiniform — having radial form; rayed
- actinogram — the record produced by the action of an actinograph.
- actinolite — a green mineral of the amphibole group consisting of calcium magnesium iron silicate. Formula: Ca2(Mg,Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2