10-letter words containing o, r, a, t
- agricultor — (archaic) An agriculturist; a farmer.
- agrologist — a person who specializes in agrology
- agronomist — An agronomist is someone who studies the growing and harvesting of crops.
- agrypnotic — inducing, relating to, or characterized by insomnia
- air pistol — An air pistol is a small gun which is fired by means of air pressure.
- 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 potato — a vine, Dioscorea bulbifera, of southeastern Asia, having tubers weighing several pounds and growing in the leaf axils.
- air-to-air — Air-to-air combat is a battle between military aeroplanes where rockets or bullets are fired at one aeroplane from another.
- air-to-sea — operating between an aircraft in flight and a target on the sea
- akaryocyte — A cell that has no nucleus.
- 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.
- alacritous — cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- alcoranist — a person who believes in an absolutely literal interpretation of the Koran.
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- algorithim — (spelling) It's spelled "algorithm".
- algorithms — Plural form of algorithm.
- 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.
- alligators — either of two broad-snouted crocodilians of the genus Alligator, of the southeastern U.S. and eastern China.
- allografts — Plural form of allograft.
- allometric — Of or pertaining to allometry.
- allopatric — (of biological speciation or species) taking place or existing in areas that are geographically separated from one another
- 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.
- allotropic — of or characterized by allotropy
- 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.
- altostrati — Plural form of altostratus.
- amatorious — amatorial
- ambagitory — ambiguous
- amboceptor — an immune body formed in the blood during infection or immunization that serves to link the complement to the antigen
- ambulatory — of, relating to, or designed for walking
- 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)
- amortising — Present participle of amortise.
- amortizing — Present participle of amortize.
- amphitryon — the grandson of Perseus and husband of Alcmene
- amphoteric — able to function as either a base or an acid
- amyotrophy — wasting of muscles, caused by disease of the nerves supplying them
- anarthrous — having no joints or articulated limbs
- anastrophe — reversal of the usual order of the parts of a sentence; inversion (Ex.: “Came the dawn”)
- anatropous — (of a plant ovule) inverted during development by a bending of the stalk (funicle) attaching it to the carpel wall
- anchorette — (in broadcasting) a young and inexperienced anchorwoman
- anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.