10-letter words containing o, r, a, e
- aerostatic — of or relating to aerostatics.
- aerotactic — of movement towards or away from oxygen
- aerotropic — of or relating to the growth of plants towards or away from oxygen
- aeruginous — bluish-green, like copper rust
- affordable — If something is affordable, most people have enough money to buy it.
- affordance — A potential action that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
- afforested — Simple past and past participle of afforest.
- affrontive — characterized by a propensity to cause offence
- aforenamed — Named earlier in a document.
- aforesaide — Archaic spelling of aforesaid.
- afterglows — Plural form of afterglow.
- afterhours — occurring, engaged in, or operating after the normal or legal closing time for business: an after-hours drinking club.
- afternoone — Obsolete spelling of afternoon.
- afternoons — during the afternoon, esp regularly
- aftershock — Aftershocks are smaller earthquakes which occur after a large earthquake.
- afterwords — Plural form of afterword.
- afterworld — a world inhabited after death
- aggeration — A heaping up; accumulation.
- aggregator — a business organization that collates the details of an individual's financial affairs so that the information can be presented on a single website
- aggression — Aggression is a quality of anger and determination that makes you ready to attack other people.
- aggressors — Plural form of aggressor.
- aglomerate — Misspelling of agglomerate.
- agoraphobe — a person suffering from agoraphobia
- agrégation — (in France) a civil service examination for some posts in secondary and higher education
- ahorseback — on horseback
- aid worker — a person who works for an aid agency
- air pocket — a localized region of low air density or a descending air current, causing an aircraft to suffer an abrupt decrease in height
- air police — members of an air force assigned to carry on police duties
- air shower — a shower of secondary cosmic radiation, caused by the interaction of cosmic radiation or gamma radiation with the atmosphere.
- air-cooled — An air-cooled engine is prevented from getting too hot when it is running by cool air that passes over it, rather than being cooled by a liquid.
- air-logged — (of a pump or system of piping) hindered in its functioning by an air lock; air-bound.
- air-to-sea — operating between an aircraft in flight and a target on the sea
- airdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of airdrop.
- akaryocyte — A cell that has no nucleus.
- alanbrooke — Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount. 1883–1963, British field marshal; chief of Imperial General Staff (1941–46)
- 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.
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- ale conner — a local official appointed to examine the measure and quality of ale, beer, and bread
- alessandro — Victor Nicholas, 1915–76, U.S. orchestra conductor.
- alexandros — Alexander (def 2).
- alienators — Plural form of alienator.
- alipterion — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room for anointment.
- all-comers — You use all-comers to refer to everyone who wants to take part in an activity, especially a competition.
- allegories — Plural form of allegory.
- allegorist — a person who writes allegories
- allegorize — to transform (a story, narrative, fable, etc) into or compose in the form of allegory
- allegretto — (to be performed) fairly quickly or briskly
- alleviator — a person or thing that alleviates.
- allomerism — similarity of crystalline structure in substances of different chemical composition