10-letter words containing o, s, n, a
- amoscanate — An experimental anthelmintic agent of the arylisothiocyanate class, found to be highly effective in animals against hookworms and the four major species of schistosomes, but possibly hepatotoxic.
- amphinomus — Penelope's favorite suitor.
- anachorism — a geographical misplacement; something located in an incongruous position
- anacoustic — unable to support the propagation of sound; soundless
- anadromous — (of fishes such as the salmon) migrating up rivers from the sea in order to breed
- anaerobies — (biology) anaerobes.
- analogised — Simple past tense and past participle of analogise.
- analogizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of analogize.
- anarthrous — having no joints or articulated limbs
- anastomose — to join (two parts of a blood vessel, etc) by anastomosis
- anastrophe — reversal of the usual order of the parts of a sentence; inversion (Ex.: “Came the dawn”)
- anatomists — Plural form of anatomist.
- anatomizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anatomize.
- anatropous — (of a plant ovule) inverted during development by a bending of the stalk (funicle) attaching it to the carpel wall
- anaxagoras — ?500–428 bc, Greek philosopher who maintained that all things were composed of minute particles arranged by an eternal intelligence
- anchorages — Plural form of anchorage.
- anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.
- anchorless — without an anchor
- anchylosis — (anatomy, medicine) alternative spelling of ankylosis.
- ancipitous — Alternative form of ancipital.
- androgynes — Plural form of androgyne.
- andropause — the period, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55, during which a man's testosterone levels may fall, leading to a reduction in vigour and sexual drive
- androspore — the zoospore of certain algae that develops into a small male plant producing antherozoids.
- anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes
- anemoscope — any device that shows the presence and direction of a wind
- 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
- angle shot — a picture taken with the camera pointed obliquely at the subject, sometimes causing distortion of perspective and proportion.
- 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).
- ankle sock — a short sock coming up to the ankle
- anklebones — Plural form of anklebone.
- ankylosaur — any of various quadrupedal herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs constituting the suborder Ankylosauria, which were most abundant in upper Cretaceous times and had a very heavily armoured tanklike body
- ankylosing — Present participle of ankylose.
- annotinous — one year old.
- announcers — Plural form of announcer.
- annoyances — Plural form of annoyance.
- anoestrous — anestrous.
- anonaceous — relating to the plant family Anonaceae and its members
- anonymised — Simple past tense and past participle of anonymise.
- anonymouse — (informal) a person who posts to an online forum, or otherwise distributes information anonymously.
- anorectics — Plural form of anorectic.