10-letter words containing s, o
- anchylosis — (anatomy, medicine) alternative spelling of ankylosis.
- ancipitous — Alternative form of ancipital.
- 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.
- anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes
- anemoscope — any device that shows the presence and direction of a wind
- anemotaxis — oriented movement in response to a current of air.
- angioblast — one of several mesenchymal cells capable of developing into the endothelium of the blood vessels.
- angiograms — Plural form of angiogram.
- angioscope — An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
- 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
- angle shot — a picture taken with the camera pointed obliquely at the subject, sometimes causing distortion of perspective and proportion.
- anglepoise — a type of lamp with joints and spring tension that allow it to be placed in a wide range of positions
- anhidrosis — the absence of sweating
- anhydrosis — the deficiency or absence of perspiration; adiaphoresis.
- animations — Plural form of animation.
- anisocoria — inequality in the size of the pupils.
- anisomeric — (of a chemical compound) lacking isomers
- anisotropy — Physics. of unequal physical properties along different axes. Compare isotropic (def 1).
- ankle sock — a short sock coming up to the ankle
- anklebones — Plural form of anklebone.
- ankylosaur — any of various quadrupedal herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs constituting the suborder Ankylosauria, which were most abundant in upper Cretaceous times and had a very heavily armoured tanklike body
- ankylosing — Present participle of ankylose.
- annotinous — one year old.
- announcers — Plural form of announcer.
- annoyances — Plural form of annoyance.
- anoestrous — anestrous.
- anonaceous — relating to the plant family Anonaceae and its members
- anonymised — Simple past tense and past participle of anonymise.
- anonymouse — (informal) a person who posts to an online forum, or otherwise distributes information anonymously.
- anorectics — Plural form of anorectic.
- anorgasmia — inability to experience sexual orgasm.
- anovulants — Plural form of anovulant.
- 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.
- antagonise — to make hostile or unfriendly; make an enemy or antagonist of: His speech antagonized many voters.
- antagonism — Antagonism between people is hatred or dislike between them. Antagonisms are instances of this.
- antagonist — Your antagonist is your opponent or enemy.
- antecessor — a predecessor; someone who goes or has gone before
- anthozoans — Plural form of anthozoan.
- anti-mason — a member of the Anti-Masonic party or a supporter of its principles.
- anti-story — a narrative of short-story length that makes no effort to follow a plot and ignores structural conventions, character motivations, and the like.
- antibiosis — an association between two organisms, esp microorganisms, that is harmful to one of them
- 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.
- anticodons — Plural form of anticodon.
- antiheroes — Plural form of antihero.
- antilochus — a son of Nestor and a trusted friend of Achilles.
- antilogies — Plural form of antilogy.
- antilogism — a group of three inconsistent propositions, two of which are premises of a syllogism that contradict the third.