10-letter words containing s, e, a, i
- astrictive — Binding; astringent.
- astringent — An astringent is a liquid that you put on your skin to make it less oily or to make cuts stop bleeding.
- asymmetric — Asymmetric means the same as asymmetrical.
- at leisure — having free time for ease, relaxation, etc
- ateleiosis — the condition of having restricted or impaired growth
- athleisure — the wearing of sports clothes as leisurewear
- atrocities — acts of extreme cruelty, esp against prisoners or civilians in wartime
- attendings — physicians who attend to patients in a hospital
- attentions — acts of consideration, courtesy, or gallantry indicating affection or love
- attic base — (in classical architecture) a base for a column, consisting of an upper and a lower torus separated by a scotia between two fillets.
- attributes — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- aubergines — Plural form of aubergine.
- aubergiste — an innkeeper or hotelier
- audacities — Plural form of audacity.
- audiotapes — Plural form of audiotape.
- auriferous — (of rock) containing gold; gold-bearing
- auriscopes — Plural form of auriscope.
- auspicated — Simple past tense and past participle of auspicate.
- austenitic — consisting mainly of austenite.
- austerlitz — a town in the Czech Republic, in Moravia: site of Napoleon's victory over the Russian and Austrian armies in 1805. Pop: 1795 (2007 est)
- australite — a glassy object made of molten rock found in the earth of Southern Australia
- austringer — a person who keeps goshawks
- autarchies — Plural form of autarchy.
- auteurists — Plural form of auteurist.
- authorised — Alternative spelling of authorized.
- authorises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authorise.
- authorizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authorize.
- autodigest — To carry out autodigestion.
- autoecious — (of parasites, esp the rust fungi) completing the entire life cycle on a single species of host
- autonoesis — The neurocognitive ability to experience time as a series of subjective episodes.
- autosexing — the breeding of birds to reveal specific sexual characteristics
- autotheism — the doctrine of God's self-existence and subsistence
- autotheist — a person who worships himself or herself
- autotomise — Alt form autotomize.
- averagings — average values
- aversation — (obsolete) A turning from with dislike; aversion.
- aviatrices — Plural form of aviatrix.
- avoidances — Plural form of avoidance.
- awakenings — Plural form of awakening.
- axillaries — Anatomy, Ornithology. pertaining to the axilla.
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- babesiasis — any of several tick-borne diseases of cattle, dogs, horses, sheep, and swine, caused by a babesia protozoan and characterized by fever and languor.
- babesiosis — a tick-borne disease of domesticated and wild mammals as well as humans, caused by a protozoan of the genera Babesia and characterized by fever, anaemia, jaundice, and in severe cases leading to death
- babysitter — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- back issue — A back issue of a magazine or newspaper is one that was published some time ago and is not the most recent.
- backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- backsplice — a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
- bailieship — the office or district of a bailie