10-letter words containing u, a
- adumbrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adumbrate.
- adventured — Simple past tense and past participle of adventure.
- adventurer — An adventurer is a person who enjoys going to new, unusual, and exciting places.
- adventures — Plural form of adventure.
- aemulation — Archaic spelling of emulation.
- 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
- afro-cuban — of or relating to a type of jazz influenced by Cuban variants of African rhythms
- 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.
- 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.
- agent noun — a noun denoting the doer of an action, as editor or jogger.
- agglutinin — a substance, such as an antibody or a lectin, that causes agglutination of cells or bacteria
- aglutition — (medicine) Inability to swallow.
- 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.
- agricultor — (archaic) An agriculturist; a farmer.
- aids virus — a variable retrovirus that invades and inactivates helper T cells of the immune system and is a cause of AIDS and AIDS-related complex: variants were identified in several laboratories and independently named lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (HTLV-3) and AIDS-related virus (ARV) the name human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) being subsequently proposed by an international taxonomy committee.
- air bubble — a small pocket of air in a liquid, glass, metal etc
- air guitar — an imaginary guitar played while miming to rock music
- 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.
- akiapolaau — a rare yellow Hawaiian honeycreeper, Hemignathus munroi, having a long slender down-curved upper bill and a short straight lower bill.
- aktyubinsk — city in W Kazakhstan: pop. 248,000
- al-bukhari — Muhammad ibn Ismaʿil [ib-uh n is-mah-eel] /ˈɪb ən ɪsˈmɑ il/ (Show IPA), a.d. 810–870, a collector of the Hadith.
- al-ubayyid — El Obeid
- alabastrum — alabastron.
- alacritous — cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- alba iulia — a city in W central Romania, on the Muresul River; the historic capital of Transylvania.
- albumblatt — a short occasional instrumental composition, usually light in character
- 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
- albuminoid — resembling albumin
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- albuminous — of or containing albumin
- 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.
- algonquian — a family of North American Indian languages whose speakers ranged over an area stretching from the Atlantic between Newfoundland and Delaware to the Rocky Mountains, including Micmac, Mahican, Ojibwa, Fox, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Shawnee. Some linguists relate it to Muskogean in a Macro-Algonquian phylum
- 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).
- aliquoting — Present participle of aliquote.
- all square — mutually clear of all debts or obligations
- all thumbs — clumsy
- all-around — You say all around to indicate that something affects all parts of a situation or all members of a group.