10-letter words containing u, a, e
- aeriferous — conveying air, as the bronchial tubes.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- aeruginous — bluish-green, like copper rust
- affettuoso — with feeling
- affluently — in an abundant or wealthy manner
- afterguard — a sailor or group of sailors stationed on the poop to attend to the aft sails
- afterhours — occurring, engaged in, or operating after the normal or legal closing time for business: an after-hours drinking club.
- agapetus i — Saint, died a.d. 536, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 535–536.
- agent noun — a noun denoting the doer of an action, as editor or jogger.
- air bubble — a small pocket of air in a liquid, glass, metal etc
- air hunger — deep, rapid, and labored breathing caused by an increased respiratory drive due to abnormally low blood oxygen levels, as in severe heart failure or asthma.
- airbrushed — Simple past tense and past participle of airbrush.
- airbrushes — Plural form of airbrush.
- albumenize — to coat with a solution containing albumen or albumin
- albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
- albuminate — any of several substances formed from albumin by the action of acid or alkali
- albuminize — to convert into albumin
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- aleph-null — the smallest infinite cardinal number; the cardinal number of the set of positive integers
- alexicacus — an epithet of Apollo, meaning “averter of evil,” in reference to his dispelling a plague that afflicted the Athenian forces in the Peloponnesian War.
- alice blue — a pale grayish-blue color.
- alice paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- all square — mutually clear of all debts or obligations
- alliaceous — of or relating to Allium, a genus of plants that have a strong onion or garlic smell and often have bulbs: family Alliaceae. The genus occurs in the N hemisphere and includes onion, garlic, leek, chive, and shallot
- allurement — fascination; charm.
- allusively — having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
- almshouses — Plural form of almshouse.
- alto flute — a large flute pitched a perfect fourth lower than an ordinary flute.
- aluminates — Plural form of aluminate.
- aluminized — Simple past tense and past participle of aluminize.
- alutaceous — Zoology. covered with minute cracks or wrinkles and having a pale, leathery-brown color.
- amanuenses — a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another; secretary.
- amanuensis — a person employed to take dictation or to copy manuscripts
- amarynceus — a king of Messene who ruled Elis with Augeas and who was slain by Nestor in a war against the Pylians.
- amateurish — If you describe something as amateurish, you think that it is not skilfully made or done.
- amateurism — Amateurism is the belief that people should take part in sports and other activities as a hobby, for pleasure, rather than as a job, for money.
- ambilevous — (rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
- ambisexual — relating to or affecting both the male and female sexes
- ambulances — Plural form of ambulance.
- ambuscaded — Simple past tense and past participle of ambuscade.
- ambuscader — a person waiting in ambush; an ambusher
- ambuscades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambuscade.
- ambushment — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
- amplitudes — Plural form of amplitude.
- amusements — Plural form of amusement.
- amylaceous — of or resembling starch
- anaerobium — anaerobe
- analytique — an elevation drawing of a façade, surrounded by a decorative arrangement composed of drawings of the important details and sometimes a plan or section of the façade.
- andalusite — a grey, pink, or brown hard mineral consisting of aluminium silicate in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in metamorphic rocks and is used as a refractory and as a gemstone. Formula: Al2SiO5
- androecium — the stamens of a flowering plant collectively