10-letter words containing ad
- advocacies — the act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending; active espousal: He was known for his advocacy of states' rights.
- advocaters — Plural form of advocater.
- advocating — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- advocation — the transfer to itself by a superior court of an action pending in a lower court
- advocative — characterized by advocating
- advocators — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- advocatory — of an advocate
- aficionada — a female aficionado
- aficionado — If someone is an aficionado of something, they like it and know a lot about it.
- ahmadiyyah — a messianic Islamic sect founded in Qadian, India, in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad; it split into two branches in 1914
- alcibiades — 450–404 bc, Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War: brilliant, courageous, and unstable, he defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the Athenian victories at Abydos (411) and Cyzicus (410)
- allis shad — a now rare migratory species of fish (Alosa alosa) of European coastal waters that travels up rivers to spawn: family Clupeiformes
- amantadine — an antiviral drug used in the treatment of some types of influenza and to reduce some of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease
- ambassador — An ambassador is an important official who lives in a foreign country and represents his or her own country's interests there.
- 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.
- anadromous — (of fishes such as the salmon) migrating up rivers from the sea in order to breed
- anadyomene — (describing Venus or Aphrodite) rising from the sea
- animadvert — to comment with strong criticism (upon); make censorious remarks (about)
- antiaditis — tonsillitis
- antitrades — winds moving above and opposite to the tropical trade winds: as they reach the Temperate Zones, they descend to the surface, forming a deep layer of prevailing westerlies
- armadillos — Plural form of armadillo.
- armor-clad — covered with armor
- arrowheads — Plural form of arrowhead.
- asiadollar — a U.S. dollar deposited in or credited to Asian banks and used in the money markets of the region.
- atascadero — a town in SW California.
- aurangabad — city in central Maharashtra, W India: pop. 573,000
- autoloader — stack loader
- autostrada — an Italian motorway
- avvogadore — an official Venetian criminal prosecutor
- baby daddy — the biological father of a woman's child, not married to the child's mother and usually not in a relationship with her: Her baby daddy seldom comes to visit her and their child.
- baby-daddy — the absent father of an illegitimate child
- backpaddle — to propel a boat by paddling backward, as by using a stroke in the direction of stern to bow.
- bad breath — halitosis.
- bad cheque — A bad cheque is a bank cheque that will not be paid because there is a mistake on it, or because there is not enough money in the account of the person who wrote the cheque.
- bad mester — a term for the devil, used when speaking to children
- badakhshan — a former province in NE Afghanistan.
- badmouthed — Simple past tense and past participle of badmouth.
- baldheaded — having a bald head
- balladeers — Plural form of balladeer.
- balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
- bananadine — A fictional psychoactive substance said to be extracted from banana peels.
- bandleader — A bandleader is the person who conducts a band, especially a jazz band.
- bangladesh — a republic in S Asia: formerly the Eastern Province of Pakistan; became independent in 1971 after civil war and the defeat of Pakistan by India; consists of the plains and vast deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers; prone to flooding: economy based on jute and jute products (over 70 per cent of world production); a member of the Commonwealth. Language: Bengali. Religion: Muslim. Currency: taka. Capital: Dhaka. Pop: 163 654 860 (2013 est). Area: 142 797 sq km (55 126 sq miles)
- bareheaded — Someone who is bareheaded is not wearing a hat or any other covering on their head.
- barrelhead — the round and flat end of a barrel
- barricaded — a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy.
- barricades — Plural form of barricade.
- be made up — to be very happy about something