10-letter words containing i, n, a, r
- administer — If someone administers something such as a country, the law, or a test, they take responsibility for organizing and supervising it.
- admiration — Admiration is a feeling of great liking and respect for a person or thing.
- admiraunce — admirance
- admiringly — displaying or feeling admiration: admiring looks.
- admonisher — One who admonishes.
- admonitory — admonishing; warning
- adorations — Plural form of adoration.
- adrenaline — a hormone that is secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress and increases heart rate, pulse rate, and blood pressure, and raises the blood levels of glucose and lipids. It is extracted from animals or synthesized for such medical uses as the treatment of asthma. Chemical name: aminohydroxyphenylpropionic acid; formula: C9H13NO3
- adrenalise — (British spelling) To render frightening or thrilling, such as to stimulate the production of adrenalin.
- adrenalize — to stir to action; excite: The promise of victory adrenalized the team.
- adrenergic — releasing or activated by adrenaline or an adrenaline-like substance
- adriamycin — a trade name of the anticancer drug doxorubicin
- adrian iii — Saint, Italian ecclesiastic: pope a.d. 884–885.
- adrianople — Edirne
- adroitness — expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- adsorption — an adsorbing or being adsorbed; adhesion of the molecules of a gas, liquid, or dissolved substance to a surface
- adulterine — of or made by adulteration; fake
- aeromarine — relating to navigation of aircraft above the ocean.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- aeronomist — a scientist who studies the upper atmosphere
- aeroponics — aeroculture.
- aeruginous — bluish-green, like copper rust
- affirmance — a verification, confirmation, or affirmation
- 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.
- affrontive — characterized by a propensity to cause offence
- africander — one of a breed of red beef cattle, raised originally in southern Africa, well adapted to high temperatures.
- africanism — something characteristic of Africa or Africans, esp a characteristic feature of an African language when introduced into a non-African language
- africanist — a person specializing in the study of African affairs or culture
- africanize — to make African, esp to give control of (policy, government, etc) to Africans
- afrikander — a breed of humpbacked beef cattle originally raised in southern Africa
- afro-asian — of or relating to both Africa and Asia, esp as part of the Third World
- afro-chain — (in the Caribbean) a large chain necklace with a central pendant: usually worn with a dashiki by men
- afterbrain — metencephalon (sense 1)
- afterpains — cramplike pains caused by contraction of the uterus after childbirth
- aggeration — A heaping up; accumulation.
- 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.
- agreeingly — (obsolete) In a manner that agrees or corresponds.
- 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
- 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.