10-letter words containing n, a, t, h
- athapascan — a group of North American Indian languages belonging to the Na-Dene phylum, including Apache and Navaho
- athenaeums — Plural form of athenaeum.
- athenienne — a small, decorative stand in the form of an antique tripod, used especially in France in the Louis XVI and Empire periods.
- athermancy — an inability to transmit radiant heat or infrared radiation
- atrophying — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attachment — If you have an attachment to someone or something, you are fond of them or loyal to them.
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- autochthon — one of the earliest known inhabitants of any country; aboriginal
- avouchment — The act of avouching.
- azomethine — (chemistry) any of a class of organic compounds of general formula RN=CR2.
- bacchantes — Plural form of bacchant.
- bandwidths — Plural form of bandwidth.
- banishment — Banishment is the act of banishing someone or the state of being banished.
- bank night — Informal. (especially in the 1930s) an evening when prizes are awarded to members of the audience at a motion-picture theater.
- bath stone — a kind of limestone used as a building material, esp at Bath in England
- bathinette — a portable folding bathtub for babies, made of rubberized cloth, etc.
- batrachian — any amphibian, esp a frog or toad
- beachfront — A beachfront house, café, shop, or hotel is situated on or by a beach.
- bench seat — a seat for more than one person
- benthamism — the philosophy of utilitarianism as first expounded by Jeremy Bentham in terms of an action being good that has a greater tendency to augment the happiness of the community than to diminish it
- binghamton — city in SC N.Y., on the Susquehanna River: pop. 47,000
- bioethanol — a biofuel based on alcohol which may be combined with petrol for use in vehicles
- birth name — the surname given a person at birth.
- birth plan — a statement by a mother telling doctors and midwives how she would like her labour to proceed
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
- bone earth — bone ash.
- bonnethead — a hammerhead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, found in shallow waters from Brazil to Massachusetts, having a spade-shaped head.
- branch cut — a method for selecting a single-valued function on a subset of the domain of a multiple-valued function of a complex variable.
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- branchiate — having gills.
- breathe in — When you breathe in, you take some air into your lungs.
- cachinnate — to laugh loudly
- can't help — If you say you can't help thinking something, you are expressing your opinion in an indirect way, often because you think it seems rude.
- carmarthen — a market town in S Wales, the administrative centre of Carmarthenshire: Norman castle. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
- carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
- carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
- cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
- cashew nut — edible nut
- cashpoints — Plural form of cashpoint.
- cat-harpin — any of a number of short ropes or rods for gathering in shrouds near their tops.
- catananche — any of the hardy perennial genus Catananche, from S Europe; some, esp C. caerulea, are grown for their blue-and-white flowers that can be dried as winter decoration: family Asteraceae
- cataphonic — catacoustic or of or relating to cataphonics
- catarrhine — (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
- catchbasin — Alternative form of catch-basin.
- catchiness — The state or quality of being catchy.
- catchments — Plural form of catchment.
- catchpenny — designed to have instant appeal, esp in order to sell quickly and easily without regard for quality
- catechumen — a person, esp in the early Church, undergoing instruction prior to baptism
- catfishing — Present participle of catfish.