10-letter words containing i, t
- absolutist — the principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.
- absolutive — the grammatical case in an ergative language that is used for the direct object of a transitive verb and the subject of an intransitive verb
- absolutize — to make absolute
- absolvitor — a legal decision in favour of the defendant
- absorption — The absorption of a liquid, gas, or other substance is the process of it being soaked up or taken in.
- absorptive — able or tending to absorb; absorbent.
- abstaining — to hold oneself back voluntarily, especially from something regarded as improper or unhealthy (usually followed by from): to abstain from eating meat.
- abstemious — Someone who is abstemious avoids doing too much of something enjoyable such as eating or drinking.
- abstenious — Misspelling of abstemious (or possibly of abstentious.).
- abstention — Abstention is a formal act of not voting either for or against a proposal.
- abstersion — the act of wiping clean or cleansing
- abstersive — a cleansing substance
- 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
- abstrusity — the quality of being abstruse
- abstrusive — (rare) Of abstruse quality. (First attested in the mid 17th century.).
- absumption — (obsolete) Gradual destruction or disintegration; wasting away.
- acanthosis — (medicine) A benign abnormal thickening of the stratum spinosum, or prickle cell, layer of the epidermis.(First attested in the late 19th century.).
- acausality — having no cause.
- acceptions — Plural form of acception.
- 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.
- accipiters — Plural form of accipiter.
- accipitral — accipitrine.
- acclimated — Become accustomed to a new climate or to new conditions.
- acclimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acclimate.
- 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.
- accredited — appointed and having official credentials
- accreditor — A person or organization that provides accreditation.
- 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.
- accusative — In the grammar of some languages, the accusative, or the accusative case, is the case used for a noun when it is the direct object of a verb, or the object of some prepositions. In English, only the pronouns 'me', 'him', 'her', 'us', and 'them' are in the accusative. Compare nominative.
- 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.
- acetimeter — acetometer
- acetonemia — ketonemia.
- acetonuria — ketonuria.
- acetylenic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to acetylene or its derivatives; having a carbon-to-carbon triple bond.
- acetylides — Plural form of acetylide.
- acherontic — Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
- achitophel — Ahithophel
- achondrite — a rare stony meteorite that consists mainly of silicate minerals and has the texture of igneous rock but contains no chondrules