10-letter words containing e
- abirritate — to soothe or make less irritable
- abiturient — a German student who is leaving secondary school and going to university after taking the final examination
- abjectness — The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. (Late 16th century.).
- ablatively — in a way that relates to the melting or wearing away of an expendable part
- ablutomane — a person who is obsessive about washing himself or herself
- abnegating — Present participle of abnegate.
- abnegation — a giving up of rights, etc.; self-denial; renunciation
- abnegative — (obsolete, rare): Denying; renouncing; negative.
- abo system — a system for classifying human blood on the basis of the presence or absence of two antigens on the red cell membrane: there are four such blood types (A, B, AB, and O)
- abominable — Something that is abominable is very unpleasant or bad.
- abominated — Simple past tense and past participle of abominate.
- abonnement — a subscription
- aborigines — one of the original or earliest known inhabitants of a country or region.
- aboriginie — Misspelling of aborigine.
- aborticide — the killing of an unborn fetus
- abortively — unsuccessfully
- aboundance — (obsolete) abundance.
- about time — If you say it is about time that something was done, you are saying in an emphatic way that it should happen or be done now, and really should have happened or been done sooner.
- about-face — An about-face is a complete change of attitude or opinion.
- aboveboard — An arrangement or deal that is aboveboard is legal and is being carried out openly and honestly. A person who is aboveboard is open and honest about what they are doing.
- abrasively — in an abrupt manner
- abreaction — the release and expression of emotional tension associated with repressed ideas by bringing those ideas into consciousness
- abreactive — relating to abreaction
- abreast of — If you are abreast of someone or something, you are level with them or in line with them.
- abridgment — a shortened version of a written work
- abrogative — having the property of abrogating
- abruptness — sudden or unexpected: an abrupt departure.
- abscessing — Present participle of abscess.
- abscession — A separating; removal.
- absconders — Plural form of absconder.
- absentness — The quality of being absent-minded. (First attested in the mid 19th century.).
- absistence — (obsolete) A standing aloof.
- absit omen — may the presentiment not become real or take place
- absolutely — Absolutely means totally and completely.
- absolutive — the grammatical case in an ergative language that is used for the direct object of a transitive verb and the subject of an intransitive verb
- absolutize — to make absolute
- absorbable — to suck up or drink in (a liquid); soak up: A sponge absorbs water.
- absorbance — a measure of the light-absorbing ability of an object, expressed as the logarithm to base 10 of the reciprocal of the internal transmittance
- absorbedly — deeply interested or involved; preoccupied: He had an absorbed look on his face.
- absorbency — capable of absorbing heat, light, moisture, etc.; tending to absorb.
- absorbents — Plural form of absorbent.
- absorptive — able or tending to absorb; absorbent.
- abstemious — Someone who is abstemious avoids doing too much of something enjoyable such as eating or drinking.
- abstenance — Misspelling of abstinence (by confusion with abstention).
- abstenious — Misspelling of abstemious (or possibly of abstentious.).
- abstention — Abstention is a formal act of not voting either for or against a proposal.
- abstergent — cleansing or scouring
- abstersion — the act of wiping clean or cleansing
- abstersive — a cleansing substance
- abstinence — Abstinence is the practice of abstaining from something such as alcoholic drink or sex, often for health or religious reasons.