10-letter words containing i
- all in all — You use all in all to introduce a summary or general statement.
- all righty — all right
- all smiles — If you say that someone is all smiles, you mean that they look very happy, often when they have previously been worried or upset about something.
- all'antica — in the manner of the ancients.
- all-in-one — All-in-one means having several different parts or several different functions.
- alla prima — (of a painting) painted with a single layer of paint, in contrast to paintings built up layer by layer
- allegation — An allegation is a statement saying that someone has done something wrong.
- allegiance — Your allegiance is your support for and loyalty to a particular group, person, or belief.
- allegories — Plural form of allegory.
- allegorist — a person who writes allegories
- allegorize — to transform (a story, narrative, fable, etc) into or compose in the form of allegory
- allenstein — German name of Olsztyn.
- allergenic — causing allergic sensitization.
- allergists — Plural form of allergist.
- alleviated — to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate: to alleviate sorrow; to alleviate pain.
- alleviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alleviate.
- alleviator — a person or thing that alleviates.
- alliaceous — of or relating to Allium, a genus of plants that have a strong onion or garlic smell and often have bulbs: family Alliaceae. The genus occurs in the N hemisphere and includes onion, garlic, leek, chive, and shallot
- alliancing — Present participle of alliance.
- alligation — the act of joining or the condition of being joined to something
- alligators — either of two broad-snouted crocodilians of the genus Alligator, of the southeastern U.S. and eastern China.
- allignment — Archaic form of alignment.
- allis shad — a now rare migratory species of fish (Alosa alosa) of European coastal waters that travels up rivers to spawn: family Clupeiformes
- alliterate — to contain or cause to contain alliteration
- allocating — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- allocation — An allocation is an amount of something, especially money, that is given to a particular person or used for a particular purpose.
- allocative — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- allocution — a formal or authoritative speech or address, esp one that advises, informs, or exhorts
- allogeneic — being genetically different, while belonging to the same species
- allomerism — similarity of crystalline structure in substances of different chemical composition
- allomerize — to undergo allomerism.
- allometric — Of or pertaining to allometry.
- allopathic — of, relating to, or used in allopathy
- allopatric — (of biological speciation or species) taking place or existing in areas that are geographically separated from one another
- allophonic — any of the members of a class of speech sounds that, taken together, are commonly felt to be a phoneme, as the t- sounds of toe, stow, tree, hatpin, catcall, cats, catnip, button, metal, city; a speech sound constituting one of the phonetic manifestations or variants of a particular phoneme.
- allostasis — The process by which the body responds to stressors in order to regain homeostasis.
- allostatic — Relating to allostasis.
- 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
- allotheism — the worship of gods foreign to one's own land or culture
- allotropic — of or characterized by allotropy
- alluringly — very attractive or tempting; enticing; seductive.
- allusively — having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
- almandines — Plural form of almandine.
- almond oil — oil obtained from almonds, used in many products, esp skin products
- almoravide — a member of a fanatical people of Berber origin and Islamic faith, who founded an empire in N Africa that spread over much of Spain in the 11th century ad
- almsgiving — the making of charitable donations, giving alms
- alogically — in an alogical manner
- along with — accompanying; together with
- alpestrine — (of plants) growing at high altitudes; subalpine
- alpha iron — a magnetic allotrope of iron that is stable below 910°C; ferrite