10-letter words containing s, e, t
- atmosphere — A planet's atmosphere is the layer of air or other gases around it.
- atrocities — acts of extreme cruelty, esp against prisoners or civilians in wartime
- attendants — a person who attends another, as to perform a service.
- attendings — physicians who attend to patients in a hospital
- attentions — acts of consideration, courtesy, or gallantry indicating affection or love
- attenuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attenuate.
- attestable — Able to be attested.
- 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.
- attoparsec — (unit, humour) About 31 mm (one inch). "atto-" is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^-18. A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attoparsec is thus 3.26 * 10^-18 light years. Thus, one attoparsec per microfortnight is about one inch per second. This unit is reported to be in use (though probably not very seriously) among hackers in the UK.
- 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.
- aubergiste — an innkeeper or hotelier
- audacities — Plural form of audacity.
- audiotapes — Plural form of audiotape.
- augustness — inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
- auscultate — to examine (a patient) by means of auscultation
- 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.
- authorless — having no author; anonymous
- autoclaves — Plural form of autoclave.
- autodigest — To carry out autodigestion.
- autoecious — (of parasites, esp the rust fungi) completing the entire life cycle on a single species of host
- autogenous — originating within the body
- autolysate — the substances resulting as the end product of autolysis
- automakers — Plural form of automaker.
- autonoesis — The neurocognitive ability to experience time as a series of subjective episodes.
- autoroutes — Plural form of autoroute.
- 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.
- aversation — (obsolete) A turning from with dislike; aversion.
- aviatrices — Plural form of aviatrix.
- awe-struck — filled with awe
- azeotropes — Plural form of azeotrope.
- babysitter — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
- bacchantes — Plural form of bacchant.
- backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- backseater — A navigator who accompanies the pilot of an aircraft.
- backstreet — a street in a town remote from the main roads
- backstroke — Backstroke is a swimming stroke that you do lying on your back.