10-letter words containing o, n, a
- aerobeacon — A light used to warn aircraft away from tall structures.
- aeromancer — A practitioner of aeromancy.
- aeromarine — relating to navigation of aircraft above the ocean.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- aeronomist — a scientist who studies the upper atmosphere
- aerophones — Plural form of aerophone.
- aeroplanes — Plural form of aeroplane.
- aeroponics — aeroculture.
- aeruginous — bluish-green, like copper rust
- affections — feelings of fondness, esteem
- affinition — (rare) The state or quality of being affined; mental affinity or attraction.
- affixation — affixture
- affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
- affordance — A potential action that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
- affronting — a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult: an affront to the king.
- affrontive — characterized by a propensity to cause offence
- aficionada — a female aficionado
- aficionado — If someone is an aficionado of something, they like it and know a lot about it.
- aflatoxins — Plural form of aflatoxin.
- aforenamed — Named earlier in a document.
- afro-asian — of or relating to both Africa and Asia, esp as part of the Third World
- afro-chain — (in the Caribbean) a large chain necklace with a central pendant: usually worn with a dashiki by men
- afro-cuban — of or relating to a type of jazz influenced by Cuban variants of African rhythms
- afternoone — Obsolete spelling of afternoon.
- afternoons — during the afternoon, esp regularly
- agent noun — a noun denoting the doer of an action, as editor or jogger.
- aggeration — A heaping up; accumulation.
- aggression — Aggression is a quality of anger and determination that makes you ready to attack other people.
- agitations — Plural form of agitation.
- aglutition — (medicine) Inability to swallow.
- agnoiology — the theory of ignorance
- agonistics — The range of activities associated with aggressive encounters between members of the same species, including threat, attack, appeasement, or retreat.
- agonizedly — in an agonized way
- 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.
- agrégation — (in France) a civil service examination for some posts in secondary and higher education
- agronomial — of or relating to agronomy
- agronomics — the branch of economics dealing with the distribution, management, and productivity of land
- agronomist — An agronomist is someone who studies the growing and harvesting of crops.
- agrypnotic — inducing, relating to, or characterized by insomnia
- aha moment — an instant at which the solution to a problem becomes clear
- 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.
- alabastron — a jar characteristically having an elongated shape, narrow neck, flat-rimmed mouth, and rounded base requiring a stand or support, chiefly used for fragrant ointments.
- alanbrooke — Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount. 1883–1963, British field marshal; chief of Imperial General Staff (1941–46)
- alba longa — a city of ancient Latium, southeast of modern Rome: the legendary birthplace of Romulus and Remus
- albondigas — Small meatballs, prepared in the Mexican, Spanish, or South American way.
- albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
- albuminoid — resembling albumin
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- albuminous — of or containing albumin
- alcoranist — a person who believes in an absolutely literal interpretation of the Koran.