10-letter words containing r, e, i, t, a
- aerialists — Plural form of aerialist.
- aerobatics — Aerobatics are skilful displays of flying, usually to entertain people watching from the ground.
- aerobiotic — Of or pertaining to aerobiosis.
- aerometric — Describing any measurement of a physical property of air (or other gases), but especially of temperature, pressure and velocity.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- aeronomist — a scientist who studies the upper atmosphere
- 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
- affricates — Plural form of affricate.
- affrighted — to frighten.
- affrighten — to cause alarm or fright (in)
- affrontive — characterized by a propensity to cause offence
- afterbirth — the placenta and fetal membranes expelled from the uterus after the birth of the offspring
- afterbrain — metencephalon (sense 1)
- afterimage — a sustained or renewed sensation, esp visual, after the original stimulus has ceased
- afterlight — the light visible in the sky after sunset; afterglow.
- afterlives — Plural form of afterlife.
- afterpains — cramplike pains caused by contraction of the uterus after childbirth
- afterpiece — a brief usually comic dramatic piece presented after a play
- afterwhile — (US, dialect) afterwards.
- aggeration — A heaping up; accumulation.
- agrégation — (in France) a civil service examination for some posts in secondary and higher education
- air battle — a fight between the aircraft of two opposing sides in a war
- air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
- air filter — filter that removes dust from air
- air jacket — an air-filled envelope or compartment surrounding a machine or part to reduce the rate at which heat is transferred to or from it
- air letter — an airmail letter
- 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 strike — An air strike is an attack by military aircraft in which bombs are dropped. This expression is usually used by the country or group that is carrying out the attack.
- air system — a system of refrigeration utilizing air as a coolant.
- air ticket — a ticket to travel on a commercial plane
- air travel — transportation in aircraft
- air-intake — an opening in an aircraft through which air is drawn, esp for the engines
- air-to-sea — operating between an aircraft in flight and a target on the sea
- airfreight — a method or service for transporting cargo by air
- airstreams — Plural form of airstream.
- airstrikes — Plural form of airstrike.
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- algebraist — an expert in algebra.
- alienators — Plural form of alienator.
- alimentary — of or relating to nutrition
- alipterion — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room for anointment.
- aliterates — Plural form of aliterate.
- allegorist — a person who writes allegories
- allergists — Plural form of allergist.
- alleviator — a person or thing that alleviates.
- alliterate — to contain or cause to contain alliteration
- 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