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10-letter words containing s

  • accusative — In the grammar of some languages, the accusative, or the accusative case, is the case used for a noun when it is the direct object of a verb, or the object of some prepositions. In English, only the pronouns 'me', 'him', 'her', 'us', and 'them' are in the accusative. Compare nominative.
  • accusatory — An accusatory look, remark, or tone of voice suggests blame or criticism.
  • accusement — a charge or accusation of wrongdoing or crime
  • accusingly — to charge with the fault, offense, or crime (usually followed by of): He accused him of murder.
  • accustomed — If you are accustomed to something, you know it so well or have experienced it so often that it seems natural, unsurprising, or easy to deal with.
  • acephalous — having no head or one that is reduced and indistinct, as certain insect larvae
  • acetylides — Plural form of acetylide.
  • achaemenes — flourished 7th century b.c, Persian king: traditional founder of the Achaemenid dynasty.
  • achromasia — Absence of normal skin pigmentation (from bruising, stress or disease); pallor or achromia.
  • acid house — Acid house is a type of electronic dance music with a strong, repeated rhythm.
  • acidolysis — decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an acid.
  • acidophils — Plural form of acidophil.
  • acidulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acidulate.
  • acinaceous — containing or consisting of kernels, particularly the seeds or stones of grapes
  • acinarious — covered with globose vesicles resembling grape seeds, as certain algae.
  • acolouthos — the chief of the Varangian guard in the Byzantine empire during the Palaeologan period
  • acoustical — acoustic; specif., having to do with the control of sound
  • acousticks — Obsolete form of acoustics.
  • acquiesced — to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.
  • acquiesces — to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.
  • acquisitor — a person who has a tendency to acquire (information or ideas), or a desire to possess
  • acquittals — Plural form of acquittal.
  • acrobatics — Acrobatics are acrobatic movements.
  • acrobatism — the art, or feats, of the acrobat
  • acrogenous — (botany) Increasing by growth from the extremity.
  • acrogynous — having the female reproductive organ arising from the apical cell of the stem, thereby terminating its growth, as certain liverworts.
  • acronymous — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
  • acrostical — relating to an acrostic
  • actinopods — any protozoan of the subclass Actinopoda, including the heliozoans and radiolarians, having stiff, rodlike, radiating pseudopodia.
  • actionless — inactive, without action
  • activators — Plural form of activator.
  • active sun — the sun at a maximum of solar activity, occurring every 11 years.
  • activeness — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
  • activistic — of or relating to activism
  • activities — the state or quality of being active: There was not much activity in the stock market today. He doesn't have enough physical activity in his life.
  • activity's — the state or quality of being active: There was not much activity in the stock market today. He doesn't have enough physical activity in his life.
  • actomyosin — a complex protein in skeletal muscle that is formed by actin and myosin and which, when stimulated, shortens to cause muscle contraction
  • actual sin — any sin that a person commits of his own free will and for which he is personally responsible
  • actualised — Simple past tense and past participle of actualise.
  • actualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of actualize.
  • actualness — The state or quality of being actual.
  • actuations — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • actus reus — a criminal action regarded as a constituent element of a crime, as compared with the state of mind of the perpetrator
  • acute dose — a total dose of radiation administered over such a short period that biological recovery is impossible
  • ad nauseam — If someone does something ad nauseam, they do it repeatedly and over a long period of time so that it becomes annoying or boring.
  • adactylous — possessing no fingers or toes
  • adam smith — Adam, 1723–90, Scottish economist.
  • adam's ale — water
  • adam's cup — pitcher plant.
  • adaptogens — Plural form of adaptogen.
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