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10-letter words containing r

  • agrologist — a person who specializes in agrology
  • agronomial — of or relating to agronomy
  • agronomics — the branch of economics dealing with the distribution, management, and productivity of land
  • agronomist — An agronomist is someone who studies the growing and harvesting of crops.
  • agrypnotic — inducing, relating to, or characterized by insomnia
  • ahmednagar — a city in W India, in Maharashtra: formerly one of the kingdoms of Deccan. Pop: 307 455 (2001)
  • ahorseback — on horseback
  • aid worker — a person who works for an aid agency
  • aids virus — a variable retrovirus that invades and inactivates helper T cells of the immune system and is a cause of AIDS and AIDS-related complex: variants were identified in several laboratories and independently named lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (HTLV-3) and AIDS-related virus (ARV) the name human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) being subsequently proposed by an international taxonomy committee.
  • air battle — a fight between the aircraft of two opposing sides in a war
  • air bridge — a link by air transport between two places, esp two places separated by a stretch of sea
  • air bubble — a small pocket of air in a liquid, glass, metal etc
  • air casing — a casing for the funnel of a powered vessel, large enough to provide an air space all around the funnel.
  • air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
  • air engine — an engine that uses the expansion of heated air to drive a piston
  • air filter — filter that removes dust from air
  • air guitar — an imaginary guitar played while miming to rock music
  • air hammer — a pneumatic hammer, usually portable.
  • air harbor — a harbor for hydroplanes, especially seaplanes.
  • air hunger — deep, rapid, and labored breathing caused by an increased respiratory drive due to abnormally low blood oxygen levels, as in severe heart failure or asthma.
  • 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 piracy — the hijacking of an aircraft; skyjacking
  • 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 police — members of an air force assigned to carry on police duties
  • air potato — a vine, Dioscorea bulbifera, of southeastern Asia, having tubers weighing several pounds and growing in the leaf axils.
  • air rights — rights to the airspace above a building or lot, regarded as the real property of the one who owns the building or lot
  • air shower — a shower of secondary cosmic radiation, caused by the interaction of cosmic radiation or gamma radiation with the atmosphere.
  • air spring — an enclosed pocket of air used to absorb shock or sudden fluctuations of load
  • 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 switch — a switch in which the interruption of the circuit occurs in air.
  • 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-cooled — An air-cooled engine is prevented from getting too hot when it is running by cool air that passes over it, rather than being cooled by a liquid.
  • air-intake — an opening in an aircraft through which air is drawn, esp for the engines
  • air-logged — (of a pump or system of piping) hindered in its functioning by an air lock; air-bound.
  • air-minded — interested in or promoting aviation or aircraft
  • 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
  • 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.
  • aircrewman — a member of an aircrew.
  • airdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of airdrop.
  • airfreight — a method or service for transporting cargo by air
  • airlifting — Present participle of airlift.
  • airmailing — Present participle of airmail.
  • airmanship — the skill or art of flying an aircraft
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