10-letter words containing s, i
- affections — feelings of fondness, esteem
- affidavits — Plural form of affidavit.
- affiliates — Plural form of affiliate.
- affinities — a natural liking for or attraction to a person, thing, idea, etc.
- affricates — Plural form of affricate.
- aflatoxins — Plural form of aflatoxin.
- aforesaide — Archaic spelling of aforesaid.
- africanism — something characteristic of Africa or Africans, esp a characteristic feature of an African language when introduced into a non-African language
- africanist — a person specializing in the study of African affairs or culture
- afro-asian — of or relating to both Africa and Asia, esp as part of the Third World
- afrormosia — a hard teaklike wood obtained from tropical African trees of the leguminous genus Pericopsis
- afterlives — Plural form of afterlife.
- afterpains — cramplike pains caused by contraction of the uterus after childbirth
- agapetus i — Saint, died a.d. 536, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 535–536.
- aggrandise — to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend.
- aggressing — to commit the first act of hostility or offense; attack first.
- aggression — Aggression is a quality of anger and determination that makes you ready to attack other people.
- aggressive — An aggressive person or animal has a quality of anger and determination that makes them ready to attack other people.
- agitations — Plural form of agitation.
- agonistics — The range of activities associated with aggressive encounters between members of the same species, including threat, attack, appeasement, or retreat.
- agrologist — a person who specializes in agrology
- agronomics — the branch of economics dealing with the distribution, management, and productivity of land
- agronomist — An agronomist is someone who studies the growing and harvesting of crops.
- aids virus — a variable retrovirus that invades and inactivates helper T cells of the immune system and is a cause of AIDS and AIDS-related complex: variants were identified in several laboratories and independently named lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (HTLV-3) and AIDS-related virus (ARV) the name human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) being subsequently proposed by an international taxonomy committee.
- air casing — a casing for the funnel of a powered vessel, large enough to provide an air space all around the funnel.
- air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
- air pistol — An air pistol is a small gun which is fired by means of air pressure.
- air rights — rights to the airspace above a building or lot, regarded as the real property of the one who owns the building or lot
- air shower — a shower of secondary cosmic radiation, caused by the interaction of cosmic radiation or gamma radiation with the atmosphere.
- air spring — an enclosed pocket of air used to absorb shock or sudden fluctuations of load
- air strike — An air strike is an attack by military aircraft in which bombs are dropped. This expression is usually used by the country or group that is carrying out the attack.
- air switch — a switch in which the interruption of the circuit occurs in air.
- air system — a system of refrigeration utilizing air as a coolant.
- air-to-sea — operating between an aircraft in flight and a target on the sea
- airbrasive — a method of removing deposits from the teeth, or rarely, of preparing teeth for filling, by wearing down the surface with an abrasive substance blown by a jet of air
- airbrushed — Simple past tense and past participle of airbrush.
- airbrushes — Plural form of airbrush.
- airmanship — the skill or art of flying an aircraft
- airstreams — Plural form of airstream.
- airstrikes — Plural form of airstrike.
- aisi steel — any steel made to conform to the standard chemical compositions generally accepted by the U.S. steel industry and its principal customers.
- aisle seat — a seat, esp on a plane, situated at the end of a row, adjacent to the aisle
- aktyubinsk — city in W Kazakhstan: pop. 248,000
- alacritous — cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- albigenses — members of a Manichean sect that flourished in S France from the 11th to the 13th century
- albinistic — Of or pertaining to albinism.
- albondigas — Small meatballs, prepared in the Mexican, Spanish, or South American way.
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- albuminous — of or containing albumin
- alchemists — Plural form of alchemist.