10-letter words containing o, r, a, t, e
- 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
- aglomerate — Misspelling of agglomerate.
- agrégation — (in France) a civil service examination for some posts in secondary and higher education
- 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-to-sea — operating between an aircraft in flight and a target on the sea
- akaryocyte — A cell that has no nucleus.
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- alienators — Plural form of alienator.
- alipterion — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room for anointment.
- allegorist — a person who writes allegories
- allegretto — (to be performed) fairly quickly or briskly
- alleviator — a person or thing that alleviates.
- allometric — Of or pertaining to allometry.
- allosteric — of, relating to, or designating a function of an enzyme in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule
- allotropes — Plural form of allotrope.
- alteration — An alteration is a change in or to something.
- alternator — An alternator is a device, used especially in a car, that creates an electrical current that changes direction as it flows.
- altogether — You use altogether to emphasize that something has stopped, been done, or finished completely.
- amboceptor — an immune body formed in the blood during infection or immunization that serves to link the complement to the antigen
- ameliorant — a thing that ameliorates
- ameliorate — If someone or something ameliorates a situation, they make it better or easier in some way.
- amendatory — serving to amend; corrective
- amersfoort — a town in the central Netherlands, in E Utrecht province. Pop: 131 000 (2003 est)
- amphoteric — able to function as either a base or an acid
- anastrophe — reversal of the usual order of the parts of a sentence; inversion (Ex.: “Came the dawn”)
- anchorette — (in broadcasting) a young and inexperienced anchorwoman
- anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.
- anemometer — an instrument for recording the speed and often the direction of winds
- anemometry — the technique of measuring wind speed and direction
- anoestrous — anestrous.
- anorectics — Plural form of anorectic.
- anorexiant — a substance, as a drug, for causing loss of appetite.
- antecessor — a predecessor; someone who goes or has gone before
- antemortem — made or done just before one's death
- anteriorly — in an anterior position
- anthophore — an elongation of the receptacle of a flower between the calyx and corolla
- antierotic — discouraging sexual desire
- antifogger — an antifoggant.
- antigorite — a variety of serpentine occurring in a brownish-green lamellar form.
- antiheroes — Plural form of antihero.
- antiheroic — relating to or in the manner of an antihero
- antimodern — opposed to modern attitudes
- antiphoner — An antiphonal.