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10-letter words containing i

  • agglutinin — a substance, such as an antibody or a lectin, that causes agglutination of cells or bacteria
  • 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.
  • aggressive — An aggressive person or animal has a quality of anger and determination that makes them ready to attack other people.
  • aggrieving — Present participle of aggrieve.
  • agitatedly — excited; disturbed.
  • agitations — Plural form of agitation.
  • aglutition — (medicine) Inability to swallow.
  • agnoiology — the theory of ignorance
  • agonistics — The range of activities associated with aggressive encounters between members of the same species, including threat, attack, appeasement, or retreat.
  • agonizedly — in an agonized way
  • agrammatic — Of, pertaining to, or afflicted by agrammatism.
  • agraphobia — Fear of sexual abuse.
  • agreeingly — (obsolete) In a manner that agrees or corresponds.
  • 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
  • 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
  • ahithophel — a member of David's council, who became one of Absalom's advisers in his rebellion and hanged himself when his advice was overruled (II Samuel 15:12–17:23)
  • ahmadiyyah — a messianic Islamic sect founded in Qadian, India, in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad; it split into two branches in 1914
  • aid agency — an organization that gives money, equipment, or services to people who need them but who cannot provide them for themselves
  • aid worker — a person who works for an aid agency
  • aids virus — a variable retrovirus that invades and inactivates helper T cells of the immune system and is a cause of AIDS and AIDS-related complex: variants were identified in several laboratories and independently named lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (HTLV-3) and AIDS-related virus (ARV) the name human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) being subsequently proposed by an international taxonomy committee.
  • aiken code — (data)   An alternative form of the Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) system for encoding numbers. Where BCD encodes each decimal digit in normal binary, Aiken code uses the encoding shown below. This is supposed to be less prone to corruption. The following table shows the encoding of each decimal digit, D, in BCD and Aiken code: D BCD Aiken 0 0000 0000 1 0001 0001 2 0010 0010 3 0011 0011 4 0100 0100 5 0101 1011 (inverted 4) 6 0110 1100 (inverted 3) 7 0111 1101 (inverted 2) 8 1000 1110 (inverted 1) 9 1001 1111 (inverted 0) The Aiken code was probably designed by Howard Aiken in the 1940s or 1950s for use in data transmission. Compare: Gray code.
  • air battle — a fight between the aircraft of two opposing sides in a war
  • air bridge — a link by air transport between two places, esp two places separated by a stretch of sea
  • air bubble — a small pocket of air in a liquid, glass, metal etc
  • air casing — a casing for the funnel of a powered vessel, large enough to provide an air space all around the funnel.
  • air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
  • air engine — an engine that uses the expansion of heated air to drive a piston
  • air filter — filter that removes dust from air
  • air guitar — an imaginary guitar played while miming to rock music
  • air hammer — a pneumatic hammer, usually portable.
  • air harbor — a harbor for hydroplanes, especially seaplanes.
  • 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.
  • air jacket — an air-filled envelope or compartment surrounding a machine or part to reduce the rate at which heat is transferred to or from it
  • air letter — an airmail letter
  • air piracy — the hijacking of an aircraft; skyjacking
  • 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 police — members of an air force assigned to carry on police duties
  • air potato — a vine, Dioscorea bulbifera, of southeastern Asia, having tubers weighing several pounds and growing in the leaf axils.
  • air rights — rights to the airspace above a building or lot, regarded as the real property of the one who owns the building or lot
  • air shower — a shower of secondary cosmic radiation, caused by the interaction of cosmic radiation or gamma radiation with the atmosphere.
  • air spring — an enclosed pocket of air used to absorb shock or sudden fluctuations of load
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