10-letter words containing i, r, a
- accuracies — Plural form of accuracy.
- acerbating — Present participle of acerbate.
- acerbation — (rare) Bitterness of feeling.
- acervation — a heaping or piling up, gathering, accumulation
- acetimeter — acetometer
- acetonuria — ketonuria.
- 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
- achromasia — Absence of normal skin pigmentation (from bruising, stress or disease); pallor or achromia.
- achromatic — without colour
- achromatin — the material of the nucleus of a cell that does not stain with basic dyes
- achromycin — tetracycline
- acicularly — In an acicular way.
- acid freak — a person taking or having taken LSD regularly and heavily, such that their psychological state has been affected
- acid-proof — resistant to the action of acid
- acidimeter — any instrument or standard solution for determining the amount of acid in a sample solution
- acidimetry — the determination of the amount of acid present in a solution, measured by an acidimeter or by volumetric analysis
- acidometer — a type of hydrometer for measuring the relative density of an acid solution, esp the acid in a battery
- acinarious — covered with globose vesicles resembling grape seeds, as certain algae.
- acquirable — to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own: to acquire property.
- acquisitor — a person who has a tendency to acquire (information or ideas), or a desire to possess
- acre right — the right of a settler to purchase land that the settler has occupied or improved.
- acroamatic — relating to oral communication
- acrobatics — Acrobatics are acrobatic movements.
- acrobatism — the art, or feats, of the acrobat
- acromicria — abnormal smallness of the head and extremities.
- 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.
- acrophobia — abnormal fear or dread of being at a great height
- acrophobic — a pathological fear of heights.
- 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.
- acrostical — relating to an acrostic
- acroterial — relating to an acroter
- acroterion — acroterium.
- acroterium — an ornament positioned on top of an acroter
- acrylamide — a chemical compound that forms in certain foods when exposed to high temperature
- actiniform — having radial form; rayed
- actinogram — the record produced by the action of an actinograph.
- activators — Plural form of activator.
- activewear — clothing for wear while engaging in sports, recreation, etc.; sportswear
- acyrologia — (rhetoric) inexact, inappropriate or improper use of a word.
- ad gloriam — for glory.
- ad interim — for the meantime; for the present
- adar sheni — an extra month of the Jewish year, occurring about once every three years between Adar and Nisan
- addressing — a method by which a computer network can identify which device sent a piece of information over the network, and which device received it
- addression — (obsolete) The act of addressing or directing one's course.
- adenoviral — relating to an adenovirus
- adenovirus — any of a group of viruses that can cause upper respiratory diseases in man
- adhocratic — Relating to adhocracy.
- adiaphoron — a thing of indifference
- adirondack — a member of an Algonquian people living mainly north of the St. Lawrence River.