10-letter words containing t, a
- afterwhile — (US, dialect) afterwards.
- afterwords — Plural form of afterword.
- afterworld — a world inhabited after death
- agapanthus — a liliaceous plant, Agapanthus africanus, of southern Africa, having rounded clusters of blue or white funnel-shaped flowers
- agapetus i — Saint, died a.d. 536, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 535–536.
- agate line — a unit of measurement for classified advertising space, one column wide and 1⁄14 inch deep
- agathocles — 361–289 b.c, tyrant of Syracuse 317–289.
- agent noun — a noun denoting the doer of an action, as editor or jogger.
- aggeration — A heaping up; accumulation.
- agglutinin — a substance, such as an antibody or a lectin, that causes agglutination of cells or bacteria
- aggravated — Aggravated is used to describe a serious crime which involves violence.
- aggravates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aggravate.
- aggravator — to make worse or more severe; intensify, as anything evil, disorderly, or troublesome: to aggravate a grievance; to aggravate an illness.
- aggregated — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
- aggregates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aggregate.
- aggregator — a business organization that collates the details of an individual's financial affairs so that the information can be presented on a single website
- aggregrate — Misspelling of aggregate.
- agitatedly — excited; disturbed.
- agitations — Plural form of agitation.
- aglomerate — Misspelling of agglomerate.
- aglutition — (medicine) Inability to swallow.
- agonistics — The range of activities associated with aggressive encounters between members of the same species, including threat, attack, appeasement, or retreat.
- agony aunt — An agony aunt is a person who writes a column in a newspaper or magazine in which they reply to readers who have written to them for advice on their personal problems.
- agrammatic — Of, pertaining to, or afflicted by agrammatism.
- agreements — Plural form of agreement.
- agrégation — (in France) a civil service examination for some posts in secondary and higher education
- agricultor — (archaic) An agriculturist; a farmer.
- agrologist — a person who specializes in agrology
- agronomist — An agronomist is someone who studies the growing and harvesting of crops.
- agrypnotic — inducing, relating to, or characterized by insomnia
- aha moment — an instant at which the solution to a problem becomes clear
- ahithophel — a member of David's council, who became one of Absalom's advisers in his rebellion and hanged himself when his advice was overruled (II Samuel 15:12–17:23)
- air battle — a fight between the aircraft of two opposing sides in a war
- air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
- air filter — filter that removes dust from air
- air guitar — an imaginary guitar played while miming to rock music
- air jacket — an air-filled envelope or compartment surrounding a machine or part to reduce the rate at which heat is transferred to or from it
- air letter — an airmail letter
- air pistol — An air pistol is a small gun which is fired by means of air pressure.
- air pocket — a localized region of low air density or a descending air current, causing an aircraft to suffer an abrupt decrease in height
- air potato — a vine, Dioscorea bulbifera, of southeastern Asia, having tubers weighing several pounds and growing in the leaf axils.
- 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 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 ticket — a ticket to travel on a commercial plane
- air travel — transportation in aircraft
- air-intake — an opening in an aircraft through which air is drawn, esp for the engines
- air-to-air — Air-to-air combat is a battle between military aeroplanes where rockets or bullets are fired at one aeroplane from another.
- air-to-sea — operating between an aircraft in flight and a target on the sea