10-letter words containing n, o, a, d
- admonitive — relating to admonition; admonitory
- admonitory — admonishing; warning
- 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.
- adrenalone — An adrenergic agonist used as a topical vasoconstrictor and hemostatic.
- adrianople — Edirne
- 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.
- advocating — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- advocation — the transfer to itself by a superior court of an action pending in a lower court
- affordance — A potential action that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
- aficionada — a female aficionado
- aficionado — If someone is an aficionado of something, they like it and know a lot about it.
- aforenamed — Named earlier in a document.
- agonizedly — in an agonized way
- 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.
- albondigas — Small meatballs, prepared in the Mexican, Spanish, or South American way.
- albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
- albuminoid — resembling albumin
- alderwoman — (in England and Wales until 1974) one of the senior female members of a local council, elected by other councillors
- alderwomen — Plural form of alderwoman.
- alessandro — Victor Nicholas, 1915–76, U.S. orchestra conductor.
- alexandros — Alexander (def 2).
- all-around — You say all around to indicate that something affects all parts of a situation or all members of a group.
- allargando — (to be performed) with increasing slowness
- allhallond — relating to the period of time around Allhallows
- allowanced — Simple past tense and past participle of allowance.
- almond oil — oil obtained from almonds, used in many products, esp skin products
- ambitioned — sought after, desired
- amendation — (US) The result of making an amendment to a document etc; an amendment.
- amendatory — serving to amend; corrective
- amianthoid — a fine variety of asbestos, with delicate, flexible filaments.
- amino acid — Amino acids are substances containing nitrogen and hydrogen and which are found in proteins. Amino acids occur naturally in the body.
- aminoacids — Plural form of aminoacid.
- amiodarone — a substance, C 25 H 29 I 2 NO 3 , used in the treatment of heart arrhythmias.
- amlodipine — A long-acting calcium channel blocker used as an anti-hypertensive and in the treatment of angina.
- ammoniated — to treat or cause to unite with ammonia.
- ammonified — Simple past tense and past participle of ammonify.
- amodiaquin — a compound, C20H22ClN3O, whose hydrochloride form is used in treating malaria
- amphipodan — (zoology) Relating to the amphipods.
- anadromous — (of fishes such as the salmon) migrating up rivers from the sea in order to breed
- anadyomene — (describing Venus or Aphrodite) rising from the sea
- analogised — Simple past tense and past participle of analogise.
- analogized — Simple past tense and past participle of analogize.
- anapodoton — (uncountable, rhetoric) The rhetorical device in which a main clause is implied by a subordinate clause, without mention.
- anatomized — Simple past tense and past participle of anatomize.