10-letter words containing n
- adulterant — a substance or ingredient that adulterates
- adulterine — of or made by adulteration; fake
- advantaged — A person or place that is advantaged is in a better social or financial position than other people or places.
- advantages — A condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position.
- adventitia — the outermost covering of an organ or part, esp the outer coat of a blood vessel
- adventured — Simple past tense and past participle of adventure.
- adventurer — An adventurer is a person who enjoys going to new, unusual, and exciting places.
- adventures — Plural form of adventure.
- advertence — heedfulness or attentiveness
- advertency — the state or quality of being advertent.
- advisement — consultation; deliberation
- 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
- aedilitian — one of a board of magistrates in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, games, etc.
- aegean sea — an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey
- aemulation — Archaic spelling of emulation.
- aerenchyma — plant tissue with large air-filled spaces, which is typical of aquatic plants and allows air to reach waterlogged parts
- aerobeacon — A light used to warn aircraft away from tall structures.
- aeromancer — A practitioner of aeromancy.
- aeromarine — relating to navigation of aircraft above the ocean.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- aeronomist — a scientist who studies the upper atmosphere
- aerophones — Plural form of aerophone.
- aeroplanes — Plural form of aeroplane.
- aeroponics — aeroculture.
- aeruginous — bluish-green, like copper rust
- aeschylean — 525–456 b.c, Greek poet and dramatist.
- aethelstan — Athelstan
- affections — feelings of fondness, esteem
- affeerment — the act of deciding upon or settling penalties or fines
- afferently — in a manner moving to the centre or inwards
- affiancing — Present participle of affiance.
- affinities — a natural liking for or attraction to a person, thing, idea, etc.
- affinition — (rare) The state or quality of being affined; mental affinity or attraction.
- affinitive — characterized by affinity; closely related or associated.
- affirmance — a verification, confirmation, or affirmation
- affixation — affixture
- afflicting — deeply distressing; painful
- affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
- affluently — in an abundant or wealthy manner
- affordance — A potential action that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
- affrighten — to cause alarm or fright (in)
- affronting — a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult: an affront to the king.
- affrontive — characterized by a propensity to cause offence
- aficionada — a female aficionado
- aficionado — If someone is an aficionado of something, they like it and know a lot about it.
- aflatoxins — Plural form of aflatoxin.
- aforenamed — Named earlier in a document.
- africander — one of a breed of red beef cattle, raised originally in southern Africa, well adapted to high temperatures.
- africanism — something characteristic of Africa or Africans, esp a characteristic feature of an African language when introduced into a non-African language