10-letter words containing n
- adelantado — a military title given to Conquistadors allowing the bearer the right to become governor or justice of a region
- adenectomy — surgical removal of a gland
- adenopathy — enlargement of the lymph nodes
- adenosines — Plural form of adenosine.
- adenoviral — relating to an adenovirus
- adenovirus — any of a group of viruses that can cause upper respiratory diseases in man
- adequation — Equivalence.
- adherences — Plural form of adherence.
- adherently — in an adherent manner
- adhesional — relating to adhesion
- adiactinic — denoting a substance that does not transmit radiation affecting photochemically sensitive materials, such as a safelight in a photographic darkroom
- adiaphoron — a thing of indifference
- adipokines — Plural form of adipokine.
- adirondack — a member of an Algonquian people living mainly north of the St. Lawrence River.
- adjacently — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- adjourning — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- adjudgment — The action of imposing judgment.
- adjunction — (in phrase-structure grammar) the relationship between a branch of a tree representing a sentence to other branches to its left or right that descend from the same node immediately above
- adjunctive — that constitutes an adjunct
- adjuration — a solemn charge or command
- adjustment — An adjustment is a small change that is made to something such as a machine or a way of doing something.
- adjuvanted — (medicine) Modified by addition of an adjuvant.
- administer — If someone administers something such as a country, the law, or a test, they take responsibility for organizing and supervising it.
- admiration — Admiration is a feeling of great liking and respect for a person or thing.
- admiraunce — admirance
- admiringly — displaying or feeling admiration: admiring looks.
- admissions — the procedure for admitting students to study at a college, university, or school
- admittance — Admittance is the act of entering a place or institution or the right to enter it.
- admonished — to caution, advise, or counsel against something.
- admonisher — One who admonishes.
- admonishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admonish.
- admonition — An admonition is a warning or criticism about someone's behaviour.
- admonitive — relating to admonition; admonitory
- admonitory — admonishing; warning
- adnominals — Plural form of adnominal.
- adolescent — Adolescent is used to describe young people who are no longer children but who have not yet become adults. It also refers to their behaviour.
- adorations — Plural form of adoration.
- adornments — Plural form of adornment.
- adposition — (grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context.
- adrenaline — a hormone that is secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress and increases heart rate, pulse rate, and blood pressure, and raises the blood levels of glucose and lipids. It is extracted from animals or synthesized for such medical uses as the treatment of asthma. Chemical name: aminohydroxyphenylpropionic acid; formula: C9H13NO3
- adrenalise — (British spelling) To render frightening or thrilling, such as to stimulate the production of adrenalin.
- adrenalize — to stir to action; excite: The promise of victory adrenalized the team.
- adrenalone — An adrenergic agonist used as a topical vasoconstrictor and hemostatic.
- adrenergic — releasing or activated by adrenaline or an adrenaline-like substance
- adriamycin — a trade name of the anticancer drug doxorubicin
- adrian iii — Saint, Italian ecclesiastic: pope a.d. 884–885.
- adrianople — Edirne
- adroitness — expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- adsorption — an adsorbing or being adsorbed; adhesion of the molecules of a gas, liquid, or dissolved substance to a surface
- adulations — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.