10-letter words containing n
- africanist — a person specializing in the study of African affairs or culture
- africanize — to make African, esp to give control of (policy, government, etc) to Africans
- afrikander — a breed of humpbacked beef cattle originally raised in southern Africa
- afro-asian — of or relating to both Africa and Asia, esp as part of the Third World
- afro-chain — (in the Caribbean) a large chain necklace with a central pendant: usually worn with a dashiki by men
- afro-cuban — of or relating to a type of jazz influenced by Cuban variants of African rhythms
- after next — You use after next in expressions such as the week after next to refer to a period of time after the next one. For example, when it is May, the month after next is July.
- afterbrain — metencephalon (sense 1)
- afternoone — Obsolete spelling of afternoon.
- afternoons — during the afternoon, esp regularly
- afterpains — cramplike pains caused by contraction of the uterus after childbirth
- agapanthus — a liliaceous plant, Agapanthus africanus, of southern Africa, having rounded clusters of blue or white funnel-shaped flowers
- agate line — a unit of measurement for classified advertising space, one column wide and 1⁄14 inch deep
- 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.
- agglutinin — a substance, such as an antibody or a lectin, that causes agglutination of cells or bacteria
- 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.
- 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.
- aggrieving — Present participle of aggrieve.
- agitations — Plural form of agitation.
- aglutition — (medicine) Inability to swallow.
- agnoiology — the theory of ignorance
- agonistics — The range of activities associated with aggressive encounters between members of the same species, including threat, attack, appeasement, or retreat.
- agonizedly — in an agonized way
- agony aunt — An agony aunt is a person who writes a column in a newspaper or magazine in which they reply to readers who have written to them for advice on their personal problems.
- 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
- agronomial — of or relating to agronomy
- agronomics — the branch of economics dealing with the distribution, management, and productivity of land
- agronomist — An agronomist is someone who studies the growing and harvesting of crops.
- agrypnotic — inducing, relating to, or characterized by insomnia
- aha moment — an instant at which the solution to a problem becomes clear
- ahmednagar — a city in W India, in Maharashtra: formerly one of the kingdoms of Deccan. Pop: 307 455 (2001)
- 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
- 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 casing — a casing for the funnel of a powered vessel, large enough to provide an air space all around the funnel.
- air engine — an engine that uses the expansion of heated air to drive a piston
- 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 spring — an enclosed pocket of air used to absorb shock or sudden fluctuations of load
- air-intake — an opening in an aircraft through which air is drawn, esp for the engines
- air-minded — interested in or promoting aviation or aircraft
- aircrewman — a member of an aircrew.
- airlifting — Present participle of airlift.
- airmailing — Present participle of airmail.