10-letter words containing n, a, s
- allowances — Plural form of allowance.
- almandines — Plural form of almandine.
- almsgiving — the making of charitable donations, giving alms
- alongshore — close to, by, or along a shore
- alpenhorns — Plural form of alpenhorn.
- alpenstock — an early form of ice axe, consisting of a stout stick with an iron tip and sometimes having a pick and adze at the head, formerly used by mountain climbers
- alpestrine — (of plants) growing at high altitudes; subalpine
- alternates — Plural form of alternate.
- altiplanos — Plural form of altiplano.
- altisonant — having an impressive sound
- aluminates — Plural form of aluminate.
- amanuenses — a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another; secretary.
- amanuensis — a person employed to take dictation or to copy manuscripts
- amaranthus — Any of the genus Amaranthus; an amaranth.
- amarynceus — a king of Messene who ruled Elis with Augeas and who was slain by Nestor in a war against the Pylians.
- amazedness — the quality of being amazed
- amazements — Plural form of amazement.
- ambisonics — the technique of reproducing and transmitting surround sound
- ambulances — Plural form of ambulance.
- ambushment — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
- amen glass — a British glass of the mid-18th century, having engraved on it a sentiment favoring the cause of the Old Pretender, concluded with the word “Amen.”.
- amendments — the act of amending or the state of being amended.
- amensalism — a relationship between two species of organisms in which the individuals of one species adversely affect those of the other and are unaffected themselves.
- americanos — Plural form of americano.
- aminoacids — Plural form of aminoacid.
- aminoplast — amino resin.
- aminosugar — a monosaccharide with an amino or substituted amino group in place of a nonglycosidic hydroxyl group.
- ammonifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ammonify.
- amnestying — Present participle of amnesty.
- amnioscopy — Examination of a foetus and the amniotic fluid in the lowest part of the amniotic sac using an amnioscope introduced through the cervical canal.
- amortising — Present participle of amortise.
- amoscanate — An experimental anthelmintic agent of the arylisothiocyanate class, found to be highly effective in animals against hookworms and the four major species of schistosomes, but possibly hepatotoxic.
- ampersands — Plural form of ampersand.
- amphibians — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Amphibia, comprising frogs and toads, newts and salamanders, and caecilians, the larvae being typically aquatic, breathing by gills, and the adults being typically semiterrestrial, breathing by lungs and through the moist, glandular skin.
- amphinomus — Penelope's favorite suitor.
- amphiscian — an inhabitant of the tropics
- amplidynes — Plural form of amplidyne.
- amstelveen — city in W Netherlands: suburb of Amsterdam: pop. 74,000
- amusements — Plural form of amusement.
- an lu shan — 703–57 ad, Chinese military governor. He declared himself emperor (756) and seized the capital Chang An; murdered by a eunuch slave
- anabaptise — to rebaptise
- anabaptism — a member of any of various Protestant sects, formed in Europe after 1520, that denied the validity of infant baptism, baptized believers only, and advocated social and economic reforms as well as the complete separation of church and state.
- anabaptist — a member of any of various 16th-century Protestant movements that rejected infant baptism, insisted that adults be rebaptized, and sought to establish Christian communism
- anachorism — a geographical misplacement; something located in an incongruous position
- anaclastic — relating to refraction
- anacoustic — unable to support the propagation of sound; soundless
- anacrustic — Prosody. an unstressed syllable or syllable group that begins a line of verse but is not counted as part of the first foot.
- anadromous — (of fishes such as the salmon) migrating up rivers from the sea in order to breed
- anaerobies — (biology) anaerobes.
- anagenesis — the progressive evolutionary changes that take place over time in a single genetic lineage