10-letter words containing n, a, s
- accretions — Plural form of accretion.
- accumbents — Plural form of accumbent.
- accusation — If you make an accusation against someone, you criticize them or express the belief that they have done something wrong.
- accusement — a charge or accusation of wrongdoing or crime
- accusingly — to charge with the fault, offense, or crime (usually followed by of): He accused him of murder.
- achaemenes — flourished 7th century b.c, Persian king: traditional founder of the Achaemenid dynasty.
- acinaceous — containing or consisting of kernels, particularly the seeds or stones of grapes
- acinarious — covered with globose vesicles resembling grape seeds, as certain algae.
- acrogenous — (botany) Increasing by growth from the extremity.
- acrogynous — having the female reproductive organ arising from the apical cell of the stem, thereby terminating its growth, as certain liverworts.
- acronymous — 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.
- actinopods — any protozoan of the subclass Actinopoda, including the heliozoans and radiolarians, having stiff, rodlike, radiating pseudopodia.
- actionless — inactive, without action
- active sun — the sun at a maximum of solar activity, occurring every 11 years.
- activeness — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- actomyosin — a complex protein in skeletal muscle that is formed by actin and myosin and which, when stimulated, shortens to cause muscle contraction
- actual sin — any sin that a person commits of his own free will and for which he is personally responsible
- actualness — The state or quality of being actual.
- actuations — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- ad nauseam — If someone does something ad nauseam, they do it repeatedly and over a long period of time so that it becomes annoying or boring.
- adaptogens — Plural form of adaptogen.
- adar sheni — an extra month of the Jewish year, occurring about once every three years between Adar and Nisan
- adderstone — a prehistoric ornamental bead
- addictions — Plural form of addiction.
- addisonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Joseph Addison or his works.
- 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.
- adenosines — Plural form of adenosine.
- adenovirus — any of a group of viruses that can cause upper respiratory diseases in man
- adherences — Plural form of adherence.
- adhesional — relating to adhesion
- adipokines — Plural form of adipokine.
- adjustment — An adjustment is a small change that is made to something such as a machine or a way of doing something.
- administer — If someone administers something such as a country, the law, or a test, they take responsibility for organizing and supervising it.
- admissions — the procedure for admitting students to study at a college, university, or school
- admonished — to caution, advise, or counsel against something.
- admonisher — One who admonishes.
- admonishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admonish.
- adnominals — Plural form of adnominal.
- adolescent — Adolescent is used to describe young people who are no longer children but who have not yet become adults. It also refers to their behaviour.
- adorations — Plural form of adoration.
- adornments — Plural form of adornment.
- adposition — (grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context.
- adrenalise — (British spelling) To render frightening or thrilling, such as to stimulate the production of adrenalin.
- 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
- adulations — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
- advantages — A condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position.
- adventures — Plural form of adventure.
- advisement — consultation; deliberation