10-letter words containing o, n, e, s
- 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
- americanos — Plural form of americano.
- ammonifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ammonify.
- 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.
- anaerobies — (biology) anaerobes.
- analogised — Simple past tense and past participle of analogise.
- analogizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of analogize.
- anastomose — to join (two parts of a blood vessel, etc) by anastomosis
- anastrophe — reversal of the usual order of the parts of a sentence; inversion (Ex.: “Came the dawn”)
- anatomizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anatomize.
- anchorages — Plural form of anchorage.
- anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.
- anchorless — without an anchor
- androgynes — Plural form of androgyne.
- andropause — the period, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55, during which a man's testosterone levels may fall, leading to a reduction in vigour and sexual drive
- androspore — the zoospore of certain algae that develops into a small male plant producing antherozoids.
- anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes
- anemoscope — any device that shows the presence and direction of a wind
- anemotaxis — oriented movement in response to a current of air.
- angioscope — An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
- angiosperm — any seed-bearing plant of the phylum Angiospermophyta (division Angiospermae in traditional systems), in which the ovules are enclosed in an ovary, which develops into the fruit after fertilization; any flowering plant
- angle shot — a picture taken with the camera pointed obliquely at the subject, sometimes causing distortion of perspective and proportion.
- anglepoise — a type of lamp with joints and spring tension that allow it to be placed in a wide range of positions
- anisomeric — (of a chemical compound) lacking isomers
- ankle sock — a short sock coming up to the ankle
- anklebones — Plural form of anklebone.
- announcers — Plural form of announcer.
- annoyances — Plural form of annoyance.
- anoestrous — anestrous.
- anonaceous — relating to the plant family Anonaceae and its members
- anonymised — Simple past tense and past participle of anonymise.
- anonymouse — (informal) a person who posts to an online forum, or otherwise distributes information anonymously.
- anorectics — Plural form of anorectic.
- anseriform — (ornithology) Of or pertaining to birds of the family Anseriformes including ducks, geese, swans, and screamers.
- answer for — If you have to answer for something bad or wrong you have done, you are punished for it.
- antagonise — to make hostile or unfriendly; make an enemy or antagonist of: His speech antagonized many voters.
- antecessor — a predecessor; someone who goes or has gone before
- antibodies — any of numerous Y -shaped protein molecules produced by B cells as a primary immune defense, each molecule and its clones having a unique binding site that can combine with the complementary site of a foreign antigen, as on a virus or bacterium, thereby disabling the antigen and signaling other immune defenses. Abbreviation: Ab.
- antiheroes — Plural form of antihero.
- antilogies — Plural form of antilogy.
- antinomies — Plural form of antinomy.
- antinovels — Plural form of antinovel.
- antismoker — a person opposed to tobacco smoking
- antivenoms — Plural form of antivenom.
- apoenzymes — Plural form of apoenzyme.
- appointees — a person who is appointed.
- appointers — Plural form of appointer.
- arc cosine — Trigonometry. the angle, measured in radians, that has a cosine equal to a given number. Symbol: cos −1. Abbreviation: arc cos;
- arc second — Astronomy. second2 (def 4).