10-letter words containing i, a, t, r, o
- aerobiotic — Of or pertaining to aerobiosis.
- aerometric — Describing any measurement of a physical property of air (or other gases), but especially of temperature, pressure and velocity.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- aeronomist — a scientist who studies the upper atmosphere
- aerostatic — of or relating to aerostatics.
- aerotactic — of movement towards or away from oxygen
- aerotropic — of or relating to the growth of plants towards or away from oxygen
- affronting — a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult: an affront to the king.
- affrontive — characterized by a propensity to cause offence
- aggeration — A heaping up; accumulation.
- 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
- agronomist — An agronomist is someone who studies the growing and harvesting of crops.
- agrypnotic — inducing, relating to, or characterized by insomnia
- air pistol — An air pistol is a small gun which is fired by means of air pressure.
- air pocket — a localized region of low air density or a descending air current, causing an aircraft to suffer an abrupt decrease in height
- air potato — a vine, Dioscorea bulbifera, of southeastern Asia, having tubers weighing several pounds and growing in the leaf axils.
- air-to-air — Air-to-air combat is a battle between military aeroplanes where rockets or bullets are fired at one aeroplane from another.
- air-to-sea — operating between an aircraft in flight and a target on the sea
- alacritous — cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- alcoranist — a person who believes in an absolutely literal interpretation of the Koran.
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- algorithim — (spelling) It's spelled "algorithm".
- algorithms — Plural form of algorithm.
- alienators — Plural form of alienator.
- alipterion — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room for anointment.
- allegorist — a person who writes allegories
- alleviator — a person or thing that alleviates.
- alligators — either of two broad-snouted crocodilians of the genus Alligator, of the southeastern U.S. and eastern China.
- allometric — Of or pertaining to allometry.
- allopatric — (of biological speciation or species) taking place or existing in areas that are geographically separated from one another
- allosteric — of, relating to, or designating a function of an enzyme in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule
- allotropic — of or characterized by allotropy
- alteration — An alteration is a change in or to something.
- altostrati — Plural form of altostratus.
- amatorious — amatorial
- ambagitory — ambiguous
- ameliorant — a thing that ameliorates
- ameliorate — If someone or something ameliorates a situation, they make it better or easier in some way.
- amortising — Present participle of amortise.
- amortizing — Present participle of amortize.
- amphitryon — the grandson of Perseus and husband of Alcmene
- amphoteric — able to function as either a base or an acid
- anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.
- anchoritic — of or relating to an anchorite
- anhidrotic — curbing the secretion of sweat
- anisotropy — Physics. of unequal physical properties along different axes. Compare isotropic (def 1).
- anorectics — Plural form of anorectic.
- anorexiant — a substance, as a drug, for causing loss of appetite.