10-letter words containing r, e, s, i
- 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-to-sea — operating between an aircraft in flight and a target on the sea
- airbrasive — a method of removing deposits from the teeth, or rarely, of preparing teeth for filling, by wearing down the surface with an abrasive substance blown by a jet of air
- airbrushed — Simple past tense and past participle of airbrush.
- airbrushes — Plural form of airbrush.
- airstreams — Plural form of airstream.
- airstrikes — Plural form of airstrike.
- alderflies — Plural form of alderfly.
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- alessandri — Jorge [hawr-he] /ˈhɔr hɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1986, Chilean engineer and statesman: president 1958–64.
- algebraist — an expert in algebra.
- alger hiss — Alger, 1904–96, U.S. public official, accused of espionage 1948 and imprisoned for perjury 1950–54.
- alienators — Plural form of alienator.
- alisanders — Alternative form of alexanders (plant).
- aliterates — Plural form of aliterate.
- allegories — Plural form of allegory.
- allegorist — a person who writes allegories
- allergists — Plural form of allergist.
- allomerism — similarity of crystalline structure in substances of different chemical composition
- 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
- alpestrine — (of plants) growing at high altitudes; subalpine
- altimeters — Plural form of altimeter.
- amateurish — If you describe something as amateurish, you think that it is not skilfully made or done.
- amateurism — Amateurism is the belief that people should take part in sports and other activities as a hobby, for pleasure, rather than as a job, for money.
- americanos — Plural form of americano.
- amphiaster — the structure that occurs in a cell undergoing mitosis, consisting of a spindle with an aster at each end
- amplifiers — Plural form of amplifier.
- anaerobies — (biology) anaerobes.
- ancestries — Plural form of ancestry.
- anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.
- aneurismal — Alternative spelling of aneurysmal.
- 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
- anglerfish — a bony fish with a growth on its head which can be wiggled to attract prey
- anhydrides — Plural form of anhydride.
- anisomeric — (of a chemical compound) lacking isomers
- anorectics — Plural form of anorectic.
- anseriform — (ornithology) Of or pertaining to birds of the family Anseriformes including ducks, geese, swans, and screamers.
- anticaries — characterized by an ability to prevent caries
- antiheroes — Plural form of antihero.
- antiherpes — acting against the herpes simplex virus
- antirabies — acting against or preventing rabies
- antiserums — Plural form of antiserum.
- antismoker — a person opposed to tobacco smoking
- antistress — acting to prevent or reduce stress
- antistrike — intended to ban, prevent, or discourage strike action by trade unions
- antitrades — winds moving above and opposite to the tropical trade winds: as they reach the Temperate Zones, they descend to the surface, forming a deep layer of prevailing westerlies
- aphaeresis — apheresis.
- apishamore — A saddle-blanket, a saddle blanket.
- apologiser — Agent noun of apologise; one who apologises.