10-letter words containing s, e, r, o
- afternoons — during the afternoon, esp regularly
- aftershock — Aftershocks are smaller earthquakes which occur after a large earthquake.
- afterwords — Plural form of afterword.
- aggression — Aggression is a quality of anger and determination that makes you ready to attack other people.
- aggressors — Plural form of aggressor.
- ahorseback — on horseback
- air shower — a shower of secondary cosmic radiation, caused by the interaction of cosmic radiation or gamma radiation with the atmosphere.
- air-to-sea — operating between an aircraft in flight and a target on the sea
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- alessandro — Victor Nicholas, 1915–76, U.S. orchestra conductor.
- alexandros — Alexander (def 2).
- alienators — Plural form of alienator.
- all-comers — You use all-comers to refer to everyone who wants to take part in an activity, especially a competition.
- allegories — Plural form of allegory.
- allegorist — a person who writes allegories
- 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
- allotropes — Plural form of allotrope.
- alongshore — close to, by, or along a shore
- alpenhorns — Plural form of alpenhorn.
- americanos — Plural form of americano.
- amersfoort — a town in the central Netherlands, in E Utrecht province. Pop: 131 000 (2003 est)
- anaerobies — (biology) anaerobes.
- anastrophe — reversal of the usual order of the parts of a sentence; inversion (Ex.: “Came the dawn”)
- anchorages — Plural form of anchorage.
- anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.
- anchorless — without an anchor
- 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.
- 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
- anisomeric — (of a chemical compound) lacking isomers
- announcers — Plural form of announcer.
- anoestrous — anestrous.
- anorectics — Plural form of anorectic.
- anseriform — (ornithology) Of or pertaining to birds of the family Anseriformes including ducks, geese, swans, and screamers.
- answer for — If you have to answer for something bad or wrong you have done, you are punished for it.
- antecessor — a predecessor; someone who goes or has gone before
- antiheroes — Plural form of antihero.
- antismoker — a person opposed to tobacco smoking
- apishamore — A saddle-blanket, a saddle blanket.
- apologiser — Agent noun of apologise; one who apologises.
- apostrophe — An apostrophe is the mark ' when it is written to indicate that one or more letters have been left out of a word, as in 'isn't' and 'we'll'. It is also added to nouns to form possessives, as in 'Mike's car'.
- appointers — Plural form of appointer.
- approaches — Plural form of approach.
- aquiferous — conveying, containing or yielding water
- araeostyle — having an intercolumniation of four diameters.
- arboresque — a tree.
- arboretums — Plural form of arboretum.
- arc cosine — Trigonometry. the angle, measured in radians, that has a cosine equal to a given number. Symbol: cos −1. Abbreviation: arc cos;