10-letter words containing e
- agapetus i — Saint, died a.d. 536, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 535–536.
- agate line — a unit of measurement for classified advertising space, one column wide and 1⁄14 inch deep
- agathocles — 361–289 b.c, tyrant of Syracuse 317–289.
- agency fee — a fee charged by an agency
- agendaless — without an agenda; unplanned; purposeless
- agent noun — a noun denoting the doer of an action, as editor or jogger.
- aggeration — A heaping up; accumulation.
- aggrandise — to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend.
- aggrandize — To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
- aggravated — Aggravated is used to describe a serious crime which involves violence.
- aggravates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aggravate.
- aggregable — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
- aggregated — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
- aggregates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aggregate.
- aggregator — a business organization that collates the details of an individual's financial affairs so that the information can be presented on a single website
- aggregrate — Misspelling of aggregate.
- aggressing — to commit the first act of hostility or offense; attack first.
- aggression — Aggression is a quality of anger and determination that makes you ready to attack other people.
- aggressive — An aggressive person or animal has a quality of anger and determination that makes them ready to attack other people.
- aggressors — Plural form of aggressor.
- aggrieving — Present participle of aggrieve.
- agitatedly — excited; disturbed.
- aglomerate — Misspelling of agglomerate.
- agonizedly — in an agonized way
- agoraphobe — a person suffering from agoraphobia
- agreeingly — (obsolete) In a manner that agrees or corresponds.
- agreements — Plural form of agreement.
- agrégation — (in France) a civil service examination for some posts in secondary and higher education
- aha moment — an instant at which the solution to a problem becomes clear
- ahithophel — a member of David's council, who became one of Absalom's advisers in his rebellion and hanged himself when his advice was overruled (II Samuel 15:12–17:23)
- ahmednagar — a city in W India, in Maharashtra: formerly one of the kingdoms of Deccan. Pop: 307 455 (2001)
- ahorseback — on horseback
- ahvenanmaa — group of Finn. islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia: 590 sq mi (1,528 sq km); pop. 25,000
- aid agency — an organization that gives money, equipment, or services to people who need them but who cannot provide them for themselves
- aid worker — a person who works for an aid agency
- aiken code — (data) An alternative form of the Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) system for encoding numbers. Where BCD encodes each decimal digit in normal binary, Aiken code uses the encoding shown below. This is supposed to be less prone to corruption. The following table shows the encoding of each decimal digit, D, in BCD and Aiken code: D BCD Aiken 0 0000 0000 1 0001 0001 2 0010 0010 3 0011 0011 4 0100 0100 5 0101 1011 (inverted 4) 6 0110 1100 (inverted 3) 7 0111 1101 (inverted 2) 8 1000 1110 (inverted 1) 9 1001 1111 (inverted 0) The Aiken code was probably designed by Howard Aiken in the 1940s or 1950s for use in data transmission. Compare: Gray code.
- air battle — a fight between the aircraft of two opposing sides in a war
- air bridge — a link by air transport between two places, esp two places separated by a stretch of sea
- air bubble — a small pocket of air in a liquid, glass, metal etc
- air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
- air engine — an engine that uses the expansion of heated air to drive a piston
- air filter — filter that removes dust from air
- air hammer — a pneumatic hammer, usually portable.
- 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.
- air jacket — an air-filled envelope or compartment surrounding a machine or part to reduce the rate at which heat is transferred to or from it
- air letter — an airmail letter
- air pocket — a localized region of low air density or a descending air current, causing an aircraft to suffer an abrupt decrease in height
- air police — members of an air force assigned to carry on police duties
- air shower — a shower of secondary cosmic radiation, caused by the interaction of cosmic radiation or gamma radiation with the atmosphere.
- air strike — An air strike is an attack by military aircraft in which bombs are dropped. This expression is usually used by the country or group that is carrying out the attack.