10-letter words containing u, a
- actual sin — any sin that a person commits of his own free will and for which he is personally responsible
- actualised — Simple past tense and past participle of actualise.
- actualized — Simple past tense and past participle of actualize.
- actualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of actualize.
- actualness — The state or quality of being actual.
- actuatable — Able to be actuated.
- actuations — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- actus reus — a criminal action regarded as a constituent element of a crime, as compared with the state of mind of the perpetrator
- acuminated — Botany, Zoology. pointed; tapering to a point.
- acute dose — a total dose of radiation administered over such a short period that biological recovery is impossible
- acute-care — providing emergency services and general medical and surgical treatment for acute disorders rather than long-term residential care for chronic illness.
- acyl group — the univalent group RCO–, where R is any organic group attached to one bond of the carbonyl group.
- ad initium — at or to the beginning
- ad libitum — (to be performed) at the performer's discretion
- ad nauseam — If someone does something ad nauseam, they do it repeatedly and over a long period of time so that it becomes annoying or boring.
- adactylous — possessing no fingers or toes
- adam's cup — pitcher plant.
- adamantium — A fictional metal that is indestructible or nearly so.
- adenovirus — any of a group of viruses that can cause upper respiratory diseases in man
- adequacies — Plural form of adequacy.
- adequality — Quality of being adequal.
- adequately — as much or as good as necessary for some requirement or purpose; fully sufficient, suitable, or fit (often followed by to or for): This car is adequate to our needs. adequate food for fifty people.
- adequation — Equivalence.
- adequative — relating to adequacy
- adjourning — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- adjudgment — The action of imposing judgment.
- adjudicate — If you adjudicate on a dispute or problem, you make an official judgment or decision about it.
- adjunction — (in phrase-structure grammar) the relationship between a branch of a tree representing a sentence to other branches to its left or right that descend from the same node immediately above
- adjunctive — that constitutes an adjunct
- adjuration — a solemn charge or command
- adjuratory — Of or pertaining to an adjuration.
- adjustable — If something is adjustable, it can be changed to different positions or sizes.
- adjustably — In a way that is adjustable.
- adjustment — An adjustment is a small change that is made to something such as a machine or a way of doing something.
- adjuvanted — (medicine) Modified by addition of an adjuvant.
- admeasured — Simple past tense and past participle of admeasure.
- admeasures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admeasure.
- admiraunce — admirance
- admixtures — Plural form of admixture.
- adulations — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
- adullamite — a person who has withdrawn from a political group and joined with a few others to form a dissident group
- adult home — any of various private residences for former state psychiatric patients, supervised by a department of a state or city government.
- adulterant — a substance or ingredient that adulterates
- adulterate — If something such as food or drink is adulterated, someone has made its quality worse by adding water or cheaper products to it.
- adulterers — Plural form of adulterer.
- adulteress — An adulteress is a woman who commits adultery.
- adulterine — of or made by adulteration; fake
- adulterize — to commit adultery
- adulterous — An adulterous relationship is a sexual relationship between a married person and someone they are not married to. An adulterous person is someone who commits adultery.
- adumbrated — (comparable) Obscured.