10-letter words that end in n
- asgeirsson — Asgeir [ahs-gair] /ˈɑs gɛər/ (Show IPA), 1894–1972, Icelandic statesman: president 1952–68.
- asperation — The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough.
- aspiration — Someone's aspirations are their desire to achieve things.
- assam ikan — a Malaysian dish of fish cooked with tamarind
- assiniboin — a member of a Siouan people of northeastern Montana and adjacent parts of Canada.
- assumption — If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
- asteridian — a member of the starfish family Asteridae
- astragalin — A chemical compound, a 3-O-glucoside of kaempferol, found in Phytolacca americana, the American pokeweed.
- astriction — to bind fast; constrain.
- at home in — familiar or conversant with
- atef-crown — a symbolic headdress of certain Egyptian gods, as Osiris, and of Egyptian kings, consisting of a tall conical cap flanked by two plumes and bearing representations of the uraeus and the sun.
- athabascan — a family of languages spoken by American Indians in most of inland northwest Canada and Alaska, in coastal Oregon and California, and in Arizona and the Rio Grande basin, and including especially Navajo, Apache, and Chipewyan. Compare family (def 14).
- athabaskan — a family of North American Indian languages, including Chipewyan, Hupa, and Navajo
- athanasian — of or relating to Athanasius or to the doctrines ascribed to him.
- athapascan — a group of North American Indian languages belonging to the Na-Dene phylum, including Apache and Navaho
- attraction — An attraction is a feature which makes something interesting or desirable.
- auguration — The practice of augury.
- auntie man — an effeminate or homosexual male
- aureomycin — chlortetracycline
- australian — Australian means belonging or relating to Australia, or to its people or culture.
- autochthon — one of the earliest known inhabitants of any country; aboriginal
- automation — the use of methods for controlling industrial processes automatically, esp by electronically controlled systems, often reducing manpower
- aversation — (obsolete) A turning from with dislike; aversion.
- azerbaijan — a republic in NW Asia: the region was acquired by Russia from Persia in the early 19th century; became the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in 1936 and gained independence in 1991; consists of dry subtropical steppes around the Aras and Kura rivers, surrounded by the Caucasus; contains the extensive Baku oilfields. Language: Azerbaijani (or Azeri). Religion: Shiite Muslim. Currency: manat. Capital: Baku. Pop: 9 590 159 (2013 est). Area: 86 600 sq km (33 430 sq miles)
- azuki bean — adzuki bean.
- bab ed-din — (the Bab; Ali Muhammad of Shiraz) 1819–50, a Persian religious leader: founder of Bābī.
- baby linen — sheets, clothes, etc for babies
- babylonian — an inhabitant of ancient Babylon or Babylonia
- bacitracin — an antibiotic used mainly in treating bacterial skin infections: obtained from the bacterium Bacillus subtilis
- back bacon — lean bacon from the back of a pig's loin
- back green — grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement
- backgammon — Backgammon is a game for two people, played on a board marked with long triangles. Each player has 15 wooden or plastic discs. The players throw dice and move the discs around the board.
- badakhshan — a former province in NE Afghanistan.
- baggageman — (US) a railway employee who was in charge of the baggage car, storing and retrieving passenger's baggage and sometimes handling mail.
- baking tin — an open metal container in which dough, cake mixture etc can be placed for baking
- balbriggan — a knitted unbleached cotton fabric
- baldacchin — A rich, embroidered brocade used for clothing in the Middle Ages, the web being gold and the woof silk.
- balikbayan — (Philippines) A Filipino returning to the Philippines after spending time in another country. (from 20th c.).
- balikpapan — a city in Indonesia, on the SE coast of Borneo. Pop: 409 023 (2000)
- ballardian — of James Graham Ballard (1930–2009), the British novelist, or his works
- balneation — the act of bathing
- balopticon — a type of stereopticon for projecting images of objects by reflected light.
- bandwaggon — Alt form bandwagon.
- bargain on — to rely or depend on (something)
- barkhausen — Heinrich Georg. 1881–1956, German physicist; discovered that ferromagnetic material in an increasing magnetic field becomes magnetized in discrete jumps (the Barkhausen effect)
- barleycorn — a grain of barley, or barley itself
- barrington — Jonah. born 1940, British squash player; winner of the Open Championship 1966–67, 1969–72
- baseperson — (baseball, softball) A fielder (of either gender) positioned near a base.
- batrachian — any amphibian, esp a frog or toad
- battallion — Archaic form of battalion.