10-letter words containing o, s, i
- anatomizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anatomize.
- anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.
- anchylosis — (anatomy, medicine) alternative spelling of ankylosis.
- ancipitous — Alternative form of ancipital.
- anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes
- anemotaxis — oriented movement in response to a current of air.
- angioblast — one of several mesenchymal cells capable of developing into the endothelium of the blood vessels.
- angiograms — Plural form of angiogram.
- 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
- anglepoise — a type of lamp with joints and spring tension that allow it to be placed in a wide range of positions
- anhidrosis — the absence of sweating
- anhydrosis — the deficiency or absence of perspiration; adiaphoresis.
- animations — Plural form of animation.
- anisocoria — inequality in the size of the pupils.
- anisomeric — (of a chemical compound) lacking isomers
- anisotropy — Physics. of unequal physical properties along different axes. Compare isotropic (def 1).
- ankylosing — Present participle of ankylose.
- annotinous — one year old.
- anonymised — Simple past tense and past participle of anonymise.
- anorectics — Plural form of anorectic.
- anorgasmia — inability to experience sexual orgasm.
- anseriform — (ornithology) Of or pertaining to birds of the family Anseriformes including ducks, geese, swans, and screamers.
- antagonise — to make hostile or unfriendly; make an enemy or antagonist of: His speech antagonized many voters.
- antagonism — Antagonism between people is hatred or dislike between them. Antagonisms are instances of this.
- antagonist — Your antagonist is your opponent or enemy.
- anti-mason — a member of the Anti-Masonic party or a supporter of its principles.
- anti-story — a narrative of short-story length that makes no effort to follow a plot and ignores structural conventions, character motivations, and the like.
- antibiosis — an association between two organisms, esp microorganisms, that is harmful to one of them
- 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.
- anticodons — Plural form of anticodon.
- antiheroes — Plural form of antihero.
- antilochus — a son of Nestor and a trusted friend of Achilles.
- antilogies — Plural form of antilogy.
- antilogism — a group of three inconsistent propositions, two of which are premises of a syllogism that contradict the third.
- antilogous — having the opposite name or character
- antimonous — of or containing antimony in the trivalent state
- antinomies — Plural form of antinomy.
- antinovels — Plural form of antinovel.
- antischool — Opposed to schools.
- antishocks — antishock
- antismoker — a person opposed to tobacco smoking
- antisocial — Someone who is antisocial is unwilling to meet and be friendly with other people.
- antitoxins — Plural form of antitoxin.
- antivenoms — Plural form of antivenom.
- anxiolysis — (medicine) The reduction of anxiety by means of sedation or hypnosis.
- aphis lion — any of the larvae of a family (Chrysopidae) of lacewings: a useful insect that feeds on aphids
- aphoristic — of, relating to, or resembling an aphorism
- aphrodisia — the desire for sexual intimacy
- apiologist — the scientific study of bees, especially honeybees.