10-letter words containing t, e, a, c
- adjacently — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- adjectival — Adjectival means relating to adjectives or like an adjective.
- adjectives — Grammar. any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying, as wise in a wise grandmother, or perfect in a perfect score, or handsome in He is extremely handsome. Other terms, as numbers (one cup; twelve months), certain demonstrative pronouns (this magazine; those questions), and terms that impose limits (each person; no mercy) can also function adjectivally, as can some nouns that are found chiefly in fixed phrases where they immediately precede the noun they modify, as bottle in bottle cap and bus in bus station. Synonyms: modifier, qualifier, identifier, describer, describing word.
- adjudicate — If you adjudicate on a dispute or problem, you make an official judgment or decision about it.
- adjunctive — that constitutes an adjunct
- admittance — Admittance is the act of entering a place or institution or the right to enter it.
- adolescent — Adolescent is used to describe young people who are no longer children but who have not yet become adults. It also refers to their behaviour.
- advertence — heedfulness or attentiveness
- advertency — the state or quality of being advertent.
- advocaters — Plural form of advocater.
- advocative — characterized by advocating
- aeciostage — the period in their life cycle during which certain rust fungi produce aecia
- aerobacter — any bacteria of a former genus (Aerobacter) normally found in the intestine: now in either of two genera (Enterobacter or Klebsiella)
- aerobatics — Aerobatics are skilful displays of flying, usually to entertain people watching from the ground.
- aerobiotic — Of or pertaining to aerobiosis.
- aerometric — Describing any measurement of a physical property of air (or other gases), but especially of temperature, pressure and velocity.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- aerostatic — of or relating to aerostatics.
- aerotactic — of movement towards or away from oxygen
- aerotropic — of or relating to the growth of plants towards or away from oxygen
- aesthetics — Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of the idea of beauty.
- aetiologic — Of or pertaining to an aetiology.
- affectable — having the ability to be influenced or affected by something
- affectedly — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
- affectible — Alternative form of affectable.
- affections — feelings of fondness, esteem
- affectless — showing no emotion or concern for others
- afflictive — causing pain or misery
- affricates — Plural form of affricate.
- afterclaps — Plural form of afterclap.
- afterdecks — Plural form of afterdeck.
- afterpiece — a brief usually comic dramatic piece presented after a play
- aftershock — Aftershocks are smaller earthquakes which occur after a large earthquake.
- agathocles — 361–289 b.c, tyrant of Syracuse 317–289.
- air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
- 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 pocket — a localized region of low air density or a descending air current, causing an aircraft to suffer an abrupt decrease in height
- air ticket — a ticket to travel on a commercial plane
- akaryocyte — A cell that has no nucleus.
- alchemists — Plural form of alchemist.
- alcoholate — any of a class of compounds, analogous to hydrates, containing chemically combined alcohol, as chloral alcoholate, C 4 Cl 3 H 7 O 2 .
- alkahestic — of or relating to the alkahest
- allocative — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- allometric — Of or pertaining to allometry.
- allosteric — of, relating to, or designating a function of an enzyme in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule
- alpenstock — an early form of ice axe, consisting of a stout stick with an iron tip and sometimes having a pick and adze at the head, formerly used by mountain climbers
- alphabetic — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
- alphametic — a mathematical puzzle using letters to express numbers that must be deciphered
- altarpiece — An altarpiece is a work of art behind the altar in a church.
- alternance — alternation; regular change