11-letter words containing act
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
- semi-active — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
- special act — a legislative act that applies only to specific persons or to a specific area.
- stactometer — stalagmometer.
- stalactical — like or relating to stalactites
- stalactited — having or containing stalactites
- stalactites — a deposit, usually of calcium carbonate, shaped like an icicle, hanging from the roof of a cave or the like, and formed by the dripping of percolating calcareous water.
- subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- substractor — a person who subtracts or takes away
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
- superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- support act — a band or entertainer not topping the bill
- syndactylus — a person having united or webbed fingers or toes.
- syntactical — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
- tabefaction — the process of tabefying
- tactfulness — having or manifesting tact: a tactful person; a tactful reply.
- take action — act, do sth practical
- tetradactyl — a four-toed animal
- the fact is — You use the fact is or the fact of the matter is to introduce and draw attention to a summary or statement of the most important point about what you have been saying.
- the sex act — the act of sexual intercourse
- to be exact — You say to be exact to indicate that you are slightly correcting or giving more detailed information about what you have been saying.
- tract house — a house forming part of a real-estate development, usually having a plan and appearance common to some or all of the houses in the development.
- tractorfeed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- transaction — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- tumefaction — an act of making or becoming swollen or tumid.
- unactivated — to make active; cause to function or act.
- unattracted — to draw by a physical force causing or tending to cause to approach, adhere, or unite; pull (opposed to repel): The gravitational force of the earth attracts smaller bodies to it.
- uncompacted — not compacted
- uncontacted — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- underaction — inadequate activity
- underactive — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
- unit factor — a gene; a sequence of nucleotides that functions as the hereditary unit for a single character.
- unpractical — not practical; impractical; lacking practical usefulness or wisdom.
- unpracticed — not trained or skilled; inexpert: an unpracticed actor.
- unpractised — not trained or skilled; inexpert: an unpracticed actor.
- unrefracted — (of light, waves, rays, etc) not refracted or deflected
- untractable — easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding: a tractable child; a tractable disposition.
- view factor — The view factor is the degree to which heat carried by radiation can be passed between two surfaces.
- vine cactus — the ocotillo, Fouquieria splendens.
- vocal tract — the passages above the larynx through which air passes in the production of speech, including the buccal, oral, nasal, and pharyngeal cavities.
- warsaw pact — an organization formed in Warsaw, Poland (1955), comprising Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the U.S.S.R., for collective defense under a joint military command.
- wet contact — a contact through which direct current flows.
- your actual — (intensifier)
- zygodactyls — Plural form of zygodactyl.
- zygodactyly — (anatomy) The condition of having two toes facing forward and two backward, as in some birds and chameleons.