10-letter words containing s, t, a, n, o
- 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”)
- anatomists — Plural form of anatomist.
- anatomizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anatomize.
- anatropous — (of a plant ovule) inverted during development by a bending of the stalk (funicle) attaching it to the carpel wall
- anchorites — Plural form of anchorite.
- ancipitous — Alternative form of ancipital.
- anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes
- 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.
- angle shot — a picture taken with the camera pointed obliquely at the subject, sometimes causing distortion of perspective and proportion.
- animations — Plural form of animation.
- anisotropy — Physics. of unequal physical properties along different axes. Compare isotropic (def 1).
- annotinous — one year old.
- anoestrous — anestrous.
- anorectics — Plural form of anorectic.
- anovulants — Plural form of anovulant.
- 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.
- antilogous — having the opposite name or character
- antimonous — of or containing antimony in the trivalent state
- antinomies — Plural form of antinomy.
- antinovels — Plural form of antinovel.
- antischool — Opposed to schools.
- antishocks — antishock
- antismoker — a person opposed to tobacco smoking
- antisocial — Someone who is antisocial is unwilling to meet and be friendly with other people.
- antitoxins — Plural form of antitoxin.
- antivenoms — Plural form of antivenom.
- antonymous — of, or having the nature of, an antonym; opposite in meaning
- antrostomy — (surgery) Incision and drainage of the antrum.
- appointees — a person who is appointed.
- appointers — Plural form of appointer.
- appointors — Plural form of appointor.
- apportions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apportion.
- apposition — If two noun groups referring to the same person or thing are in apposition, one is placed immediately after the other, with no conjunction joining them, as in 'Her father, Nigel, left home three months ago.'
- argenteous — silvery.
- arsenolite — a mineral, arsenic trioxide, As 2 O 3 , occurring usually as a white incrustation on arsenical ores.