11-letter words containing s, e
- accessorize — To accessorize something such as a set of furniture or clothing means to add other things to it in order to make it look more attractive.
- accidentals — Plural form of accidental.
- acclimatise — Standard spelling of from=Non-Oxford British spelling.
- acclivities — Plural form of acclivity.
- accompanies — to go along or in company with; join in action: to accompany a friend on a walk.
- accomplices — Plural form of accomplice.
- accordances — Plural form of accordance.
- accoucheurs — Plural form of accoucheur.
- accoucheuse — a female obstetrician or midwife
- accrescence — continual increase
- accumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accumulate.
- accusatives — Plural form of accusative.
- accustomise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of accustomize.
- accustomize — (rare) To learn to adapt one's lifestyle to a new or changed environment.
- acetabulums — Plural form of acetabulum.
- achondrites — Plural form of achondrite.
- acid-washed — (of a denim garment) processed with a bleach solution so that the color becomes faded and grayish.
- acidimeters — Plural form of acidimeter.
- acmesthesia — awareness of sharp points through the sense of touch without experiencing pain.
- acoelomates — Plural form of acoelomate.
- acquiescent — Someone who is acquiescent is ready to agree to do what someone wants, or to accept what they do.
- acquiescing — to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.
- acquiesence — A state or instance of acquiescing or passively accepting something, without necessarily consenting to it.
- acquisitive — If you describe a person or an organization as acquisitive, you do not approve of them because you think they are too concerned with getting new possessions.
- acrocinesia — (pathology) Excessive movement of the limbs.
- acrokinesia — (pathology) Alternative form of acrocinesia.
- acropolises — Plural form of acropolis.
- acrylamides — Plural form of acrylamide.
- actinomyces — a genus of bacteria that causes disease in humans and improves soil ecology
- actinostele — (botany) A type of protostele, in which the core of vascular tissue in the stem extends outward in lobes.
- active dbms — (database) A conventional or passive DBMS combined with a means of event detection and condition monitoring. Event handling is often rule-based, as with an expert system.
- active list — a list of officers available for full duty
- active mass — the effective concentration of a substance.
- active site — the part of an enzyme that interacts with the substrate during catalysis.
- actualities — Plural form of actuality.
- acupressure — Acupressure is the treatment of pain by a type of massage in which pressure is put on certain areas of a person's body.
- adaptedness — suitability
- added sixth — a chord much used esp in jazz, consisting of a triad with an added sixth above the root
- address bar — the space provided (on a browser) for showing the addresses of websites
- address bus — (processor) The connections between the CPU and memory which carry the address from/to which the CPU wishes to read or write. The number of bits of address bus determines the maximum size of memory which the processor can access. See also data bus.
- addressable — possessing or capable of being reached by an address
- adenoiditis — inflammation of the adenoid tissue.
- adenomatous — characterized by a collection of glandular growths
- adenomyosis — (medicine) A medical condition characterized by the presence of ectopic glandular tissue in the surrounding muscles, particularly of the endometrial tissue of the uterus in the myometrium, sometimes considered as a form of endometriosis.
- adeodatus i — Deusdedit.
- adhocracies — Plural form of adhocracy.
- adipocerous — Like adipocere.
- adipose fin — a posterior dorsal fin occurring in some fish, such as those of the salmon and catfish families
- adiposeness — The state or quality of being adipose.
- adjudicates — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.