10-letter words containing on
- 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.
- alabastron — a jar characteristically having an elongated shape, narrow neck, flat-rimmed mouth, and rounded base requiring a stand or support, chiefly used for fragrant ointments.
- alba longa — a city of ancient Latium, southeast of modern Rome: the legendary birthplace of Romulus and Remus
- albondigas — Small meatballs, prepared in the Mexican, Spanish, or South American way.
- ale conner — a local official appointed to examine the measure and quality of ale, beer, and bread
- alfonso vi — died 1109, king of Léon (1065–1109) and of Castile (1072–1109). He appointed his vassal, the Spanish hero El Cid, ruler of Valencia
- algonquian — a family of North American Indian languages whose speakers ranged over an area stretching from the Atlantic between Newfoundland and Delaware to the Rocky Mountains, including Micmac, Mahican, Ojibwa, Fox, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Shawnee. Some linguists relate it to Muskogean in a Macro-Algonquian phylum
- alienation — a turning away; estrangement
- alineation — the aligning or positioning of objects in a straight line
- alipterion — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room for anointment.
- alkylation — the attachment of an alkyl group to an organic compound, usually by the addition or substitution of a hydrogen atom or halide group
- all-in-one — All-in-one means having several different parts or several different functions.
- allegation — An allegation is a statement saying that someone has done something wrong.
- allhallond — relating to the period of time around Allhallows
- alligation — the act of joining or the condition of being joined to something
- allocation — An allocation is an amount of something, especially money, that is given to a particular person or used for a particular purpose.
- allochthon — a geological formation not formed in the region where found and moved to its present location by tectonic forces. Compare autochthon (def 3).
- allocution — a formal or authoritative speech or address, esp one that advises, informs, or exhorts
- allophones — Plural form of allophone.
- allophonic — any of the members of a class of speech sounds that, taken together, are commonly felt to be a phoneme, as the t- sounds of toe, stow, tree, hatpin, catcall, cats, catnip, button, metal, city; a speech sound constituting one of the phonetic manifestations or variants of a particular phoneme.
- allow-none — (programming) An annotation in GTk documentation indicating that the annotated entity may be null.
- almond oil — oil obtained from almonds, used in many products, esp skin products
- along with — accompanying; together with
- alongshore — close to, by, or along a shore
- alpha iron — a magnetic allotrope of iron that is stable below 910°C; ferrite
- alteration — An alteration is a change in or to something.
- altisonant — having an impressive sound
- altitonant — sounding loudly from high above
- amazon ant — any of several small reddish ants of the genus Polyergus, esp P. rufescens, that enslave the young of other ant species
- ambiophony — the reproduction of sound to create an illusion to a listener of being in a spacious room, such as a concert hall
- ambisonics — the technique of reproducing and transmitting surround sound
- ambitioned — sought after, desired
- ambulation — to walk about or move from place to place.
- amendation — (US) The result of making an amendment to a document etc; an amendment.
- amiodarone — a substance, C 25 H 29 I 2 NO 3 , used in the treatment of heart arrhythmias.
- ammoniacal — of, containing, using, or resembling ammonia
- ammoniated — to treat or cause to unite with ammonia.
- ammonified — Simple past tense and past participle of ammonify.
- ammonifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ammonify.
- ammonolyze — to subject to ammonolysis.
- ammunition — Ammunition is bullets and rockets that are made to be fired from guns.
- amphictyon — a delegate to an amphictyonic council
- amphitryon — the grandson of Perseus and husband of Alcmene
- ampliation — an extension or addition to what is already known
- amputation — to cut off (all or part of a limb or digit of the body), as by surgery.
- anachronic — out of chronological order or out of date
- anachronym — Synonym of backronym.
- anapodoton — (uncountable, rhetoric) The rhetorical device in which a main clause is implied by a subordinate clause, without mention.