10-letter words containing it
- 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
- antitragus — a cartilaginous projection of the external ear opposite the tragus
- antitumour — preventing or acting against tumours
- anywhither — towards any place; in any direction
- apitherapy — the medicinal use of honey or other bee products
- apolitical — Someone who is apolitical is not interested in politics.
- apparition — An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.
- appetition — a desire or craving directed towards a specific object, goal, or purpose
- appetitive — pertaining to appetite.
- appositely — In an apposite manner.
- apposition — If two noun groups referring to the same person or thing are in apposition, one is placed immediately after the other, with no conjunction joining them, as in 'Her father, Nigel, left home three months ago.'
- appositive — standing in apposition
- aqua vitae — alcohol
- aquilinity — the state of being aquiline
- aragonitic — relating to aragonite
- arbitrable — that can be arbitrated; subject to arbitration
- arbitraged — Simple past tense and past participle of arbitrage.
- arbitrager — In finance, an arbitrager is someone who buys currencies, securities, or commodities on one country's market in order to make money by immediately selling them at a profit on another country's market.
- arbitrages — Plural form of arbitrage.
- arbitrated — to decide as arbitrator or arbiter; determine.
- arbitrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arbitrate.
- arbitrator — a person selected to judge a dispute; arbiter, esp. one, as in collective bargaining negotiations, named with the consent of both sides
- arborvitae — any of a number of N. American or Far Eastern evergreen conifers, belonging chiefly to the genus Thuja
- architects — Plural form of architect.
- architrave — the lowest part of an entablature that bears on the columns
- areopagite — a member of the Areopagus, a judicial council of ancient Athens that met on the hill of that name
- argyrodite — a rare mineral, Ag8GeS6, that contains silver, germanium, and sulphur
- arithmancy — divination by the use of numbers, especially by the number of letters in names.
- arithmatic — Misspelling of arithmetic.
- arithmetic — Arithmetic is the part of mathematics that is concerned with the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of numbers.
- arrowsmith — a novel (1925) by Sinclair Lewis.
- arsenolite — a mineral, arsenic trioxide, As 2 O 3 , occurring usually as a white incrustation on arsenical ores.
- arthritics — Plural form of arthritic.
- as it were — You say as it were in order to make what you are saying sound less definite.
- asexuality — Biology. having no sex or sexual organs. independent of sexual processes, especially not involving the union of male and female germ cells.
- ask for it — to put a question to; inquire of: I asked him but he didn't answer.
- asperities — Plural form of asperity.
- asphaltite — any of various naturally occurring hydrocarbons that resemble asphalt but have a higher melting point
- assumpsits — Plural form of assumpsit.
- atrocities — acts of extreme cruelty, esp against prisoners or civilians in wartime
- atrocity's — the quality or state of being atrocious.
- audacities — Plural form of audacity.
- audibility — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- auditioned — Simple past tense and past participle of audition.
- auditionee — a person who competes or takes part in an audition.
- auditioner — a person who attends an audition
- auditorily — in an auditory manner, by hearing
- auditorium — An auditorium is the part of a theatre or concert hall where the audience sits.
- austenitic — consisting mainly of austenite.
- austerlitz — a town in the Czech Republic, in Moravia: site of Napoleon's victory over the Russian and Austrian armies in 1805. Pop: 1795 (2007 est)