10-letter words containing o, a, u
- 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.
- acroterium — an ornament positioned on top of an acroter
- actuations — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- acute dose — a total dose of radiation administered over such a short period that biological recovery is impossible
- acyl group — the univalent group RCO–, where R is any organic group attached to one bond of the carbonyl group.
- adactylous — possessing no fingers or toes
- adenovirus — any of a group of viruses that can cause upper respiratory diseases in man
- adequation — Equivalence.
- adjourning — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- adjunction — (in phrase-structure grammar) the relationship between a branch of a tree representing a sentence to other branches to its left or right that descend from the same node immediately above
- adjuration — a solemn charge or command
- adjuratory — Of or pertaining to an adjuration.
- adulations — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
- adult home — any of various private residences for former state psychiatric patients, supervised by a department of a state or city government.
- adulterous — An adulterous relationship is a sexual relationship between a married person and someone they are not married to. An adulterous person is someone who commits adultery.
- aemulation — Archaic spelling of emulation.
- aeriferous — conveying air, as the bronchial tubes.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- aeruginous — bluish-green, like copper rust
- affettuoso — with feeling
- afro-cuban — of or relating to a type of jazz influenced by Cuban variants of African rhythms
- afterhours — occurring, engaged in, or operating after the normal or legal closing time for business: an after-hours drinking club.
- agent noun — a noun denoting the doer of an action, as editor or jogger.
- aglutition — (medicine) Inability to swallow.
- agony aunt — An agony aunt is a person who writes a column in a newspaper or magazine in which they reply to readers who have written to them for advice on their personal problems.
- agricultor — (archaic) An agriculturist; a farmer.
- akiapolaau — a rare yellow Hawaiian honeycreeper, Hemignathus munroi, having a long slender down-curved upper bill and a short straight lower bill.
- alacritous — cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
- albuminoid — resembling albumin
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- albuminous — of or containing albumin
- algonquian — a family of North American Indian languages whose speakers ranged over an area stretching from the Atlantic between Newfoundland and Delaware to the Rocky Mountains, including Micmac, Mahican, Ojibwa, Fox, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Shawnee. Some linguists relate it to Muskogean in a Macro-Algonquian phylum
- aliquoting — Present participle of aliquote.
- all-around — You say all around to indicate that something affects all parts of a situation or all members of a group.
- alliaceous — of or relating to Allium, a genus of plants that have a strong onion or garlic smell and often have bulbs: family Alliaceae. The genus occurs in the N hemisphere and includes onion, garlic, leek, chive, and shallot
- allocution — a formal or authoritative speech or address, esp one that advises, informs, or exhorts
- allogamous — cross-fertilization in plants (opposed to autogamy).
- allosaurus — any of a genus (Allosaurus) of huge, carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
- almshouses — Plural form of almshouse.
- alto flute — a large flute pitched a perfect fourth lower than an ordinary flute.
- altocumuli — Plural form of altocumulus.
- alutaceous — Zoology. covered with minute cracks or wrinkles and having a pale, leathery-brown color.
- amatorious — amatorial
- ambilevous — (rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
- ambulation — to walk about or move from place to place.
- ambulatory — of, relating to, or designed for walking
- aminosugar — a monosaccharide with an amino or substituted amino group in place of a nonglycosidic hydroxyl group.