10-letter words starting with a
- abiturient — a German student who is leaving secondary school and going to university after taking the final examination
- abjectness — The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. (Late 16th century.).
- abjunction — the act of cutting off part of a mycelium or spore by forming a septum
- abjuration — the act of abjuring.
- abjuratory — Containing abjuration.
- ablatively — in a way that relates to the melting or wearing away of an expendable part
- ablutomane — a person who is obsessive about washing himself or herself
- abmodality — the differing of a measurable trait in an individual case from the mean for a population.
- abnegating — Present participle of abnegate.
- abnegation — a giving up of rights, etc.; self-denial; renunciation
- abnegative — (obsolete, rare): Denying; renouncing; negative.
- abnormalcy — abnormality.
- abnormally — not normal, average, typical, or usual; deviating from a standard: abnormal powers of concentration; an abnormal amount of snow; abnormal behavior.
- abo system — a system for classifying human blood on the basis of the presence or absence of two antigens on the red cell membrane: there are four such blood types (A, B, AB, and O)
- abolishing — Present participle of abolish.
- abominable — Something that is abominable is very unpleasant or bad.
- abominably — repugnantly hateful; detestable; loathsome: an abominable crime.
- abominated — Simple past tense and past participle of abominate.
- abominator — One who abominates. (First attested in the late 17th century.).
- abonnement — a subscription
- aboriginal — An Aboriginal is an Australian Aborigine.
- aborigines — one of the original or earliest known inhabitants of a country or region.
- aboriginie — Misspelling of aborigine.
- aborticide — the killing of an unborn fetus
- abortively — unsuccessfully
- aboundance — (obsolete) abundance.
- about time — If you say it is about time that something was done, you are saying in an emphatic way that it should happen or be done now, and really should have happened or been done sooner.
- about-face — An about-face is a complete change of attitude or opinion.
- about-ship — to manoeuvre a vessel onto a new tack
- about-turn — An about-turn is the same as an about-face.
- aboveboard — An arrangement or deal that is aboveboard is legal and is being carried out openly and honestly. A person who is aboveboard is open and honest about what they are doing.
- abranchial — (zoology) Lacking gills.
- abrasively — in an abrupt manner
- abreaction — the release and expression of emotional tension associated with repressed ideas by bringing those ideas into consciousness
- abreactive — relating to abreaction
- abreast of — If you are abreast of someone or something, you are level with them or in line with them.
- abridgment — a shortened version of a written work
- abrogating — Present participle of abrogate.
- abrogation — the act or an instance of abrogating, or repealing: abrogation of the treaty's responsibility.
- abrogative — having the property of abrogating
- abruptions — Plural form of abruption.
- abruptness — sudden or unexpected: an abrupt departure.
- abscessing — Present participle of abscess.
- abscession — A separating; removal.
- abscission — the separation of leaves, branches, flowers, and bark from plants by the formation of an abscission layer
- absconders — Plural form of absconder.
- absconding — running away, esp from an open prison or to avoid prosecution or punishment
- absentness — The quality of being absent-minded. (First attested in the mid 19th century.).
- absinthian — a green, aromatic liqueur that is 68 percent alcohol, is made with wormwood and other herbs, and has a bitter, licorice flavor: now banned in most Western countries.
- absinthism — a diseased condition resulting from excessive drinking of absinthe