10-letter words containing s, e, t
- alternates — Plural form of alternate.
- altimeters — Plural form of altimeter.
- aluminates — Plural form of aluminate.
- alutaceous — Zoology. covered with minute cracks or wrinkles and having a pale, leathery-brown color.
- alveolitis — an inflammation of the alveoli, occurring either in the lungs or in the socket of a tooth
- 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.
- amazements — Plural form of amazement.
- ambushment — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
- amebocytes — Plural form of amebocyte, an alternative spelling of amoebocyte.
- ameloblast — a type of cell involved in forming dental enamel
- amendments — the act of amending or the state of being amended.
- amersfoort — a town in the central Netherlands, in E Utrecht province. Pop: 131 000 (2003 est)
- ammocoetes — Plural form of ammocoete.
- amnestying — Present participle of amnesty.
- amoscanate — An experimental anthelmintic agent of the arylisothiocyanate class, found to be highly effective in animals against hookworms and the four major species of schistosomes, but possibly hepatotoxic.
- amphiaster — the structure that occurs in a cell undergoing mitosis, consisting of a spindle with an aster at each end
- amplitudes — Plural form of amplitude.
- amstelveen — city in W Netherlands: suburb of Amsterdam: pop. 74,000
- amusements — Plural form of amusement.
- anabaptise — to rebaptise
- analeptics — Plural form of analeptic.
- anamnestic — of or relating to anamnesis
- anastomose — to join (two parts of a blood vessel, etc) by anastomosis
- anastrophe — reversal of the usual order of the parts of a sentence; inversion (Ex.: “Came the dawn”)
- anatomizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anatomize.
- ancestress — a female ancestor (sense 1) ancestor (sense 4)
- ancestries — Plural form of ancestry.
- anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.
- andalusite — a grey, pink, or brown hard mineral consisting of aluminium silicate in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in metamorphic rocks and is used as a refractory and as a gemstone. Formula: Al2SiO5
- anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes
- anemotaxis — oriented movement in response to a current of air.
- anesthesia — a partial or total loss of the sense of pain, temperature, touch, etc., produced by disease
- anesthetic — relating to, with, or characterized by anesthesia
- angel dust — PCP1
- angle shot — a picture taken with the camera pointed obliquely at the subject, sometimes causing distortion of perspective and proportion.
- anglesmith — a blacksmith skilled in forging angle irons, beams, etc., into various forms used in shipbuilding.
- anoestrous — anestrous.
- anorectics — Plural form of anorectic.
- antagonise — to make hostile or unfriendly; make an enemy or antagonist of: His speech antagonized many voters.
- antecessor — a predecessor; someone who goes or has gone before
- anthemwise — alternately
- anthersmut — a species of parasitic fungus, Ustilago violacea
- anti-state — the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes: a state of health.
- antibodies — any of numerous Y -shaped protein molecules produced by B cells as a primary immune defense, each molecule and its clones having a unique binding site that can combine with the complementary site of a foreign antigen, as on a virus or bacterium, thereby disabling the antigen and signaling other immune defenses. Abbreviation: Ab.
- anticaries — characterized by an ability to prevent caries
- anticlines — Plural form of anticline.
- antiheroes — Plural form of antihero.
- antiherpes — acting against the herpes simplex virus
- antilogies — Plural form of antilogy.