10-letter words containing o, n, i
- admonition — An admonition is a warning or criticism about someone's behaviour.
- admonitive — relating to admonition; admonitory
- admonitory — admonishing; warning
- adnominals — Plural form of adnominal.
- adorations — Plural form of adoration.
- adposition — (grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context.
- 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
- aemulation — Archaic spelling of emulation.
- aeromarine — relating to navigation of aircraft above the ocean.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- aeronomist — a scientist who studies the upper atmosphere
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- albuminous — of or containing albumin
- alcoranist — a person who believes in an absolutely literal interpretation of the Koran.
- alfonso vi — died 1109, king of Léon (1065–1109) and of Castile (1072–1109). He appointed his vassal, the Spanish hero El Cid, ruler of Valencia
- algolagnia — a perversion in which sexual pleasure is gained from the experience or infliction of pain