10-letter words starting with a
- adaptively — in an adaptive manner
- adaptivity — in a state that has a capacity for adaptation
- adaptogens — Plural form of adaptogen.
- adar sheni — an extra month of the Jewish year, occurring about once every three years between Adar and Nisan
- added line — ledger line.
- added time — (in a sports match) extra time added to the end of a half to make up for the time spent dealing with injuries, substitutions, etc
- adderstone — a prehistoric ornamental bead
- addictions — Plural form of addiction.
- addictives — Plural form of addictive.
- addisonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Joseph Addison or his works.
- additament — an addition
- additional — Additional things are extra things apart from the ones already present.
- additively — in an additive manner
- additivity — the state of being additive
- addlepated — addlebrained.
- addressees — the person, company, or the like to whom a piece of mail is addressed.
- addressing — a method by which a computer network can identify which device sent a piece of information over the network, and which device received it
- addression — (obsolete) The act of addressing or directing one's course.
- adelantado — a military title given to Conquistadors allowing the bearer the right to become governor or justice of a region
- adenectomy — surgical removal of a gland
- adenopathy — enlargement of the lymph nodes
- adenosines — Plural form of adenosine.
- adenoviral — relating to an adenovirus
- adenovirus — any of a group of viruses that can cause upper respiratory diseases in man
- adequacies — Plural form of adequacy.
- adequality — Quality of being adequal.
- adequately — as much or as good as necessary for some requirement or purpose; fully sufficient, suitable, or fit (often followed by to or for): This car is adequate to our needs. adequate food for fifty people.
- adequation — Equivalence.
- adequative — relating to adequacy
- adherences — Plural form of adherence.
- adherently — in an adherent manner
- adhesional — relating to adhesion
- adhesively — coated with glue, paste, mastic, or other sticky substance: adhesive bandages.
- adhocratic — Relating to adhocracy.
- adiactinic — denoting a substance that does not transmit radiation affecting photochemically sensitive materials, such as a safelight in a photographic darkroom
- adiaphoron — a thing of indifference
- adipocytes — Plural form of adipocyte.
- adipokines — Plural form of adipokine.
- adipopexia — lipopexia.
- adirondack — a member of an Algonquian people living mainly north of the St. Lawrence River.
- adjacently — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- adjectival — Adjectival means relating to adjectives or like an adjective.
- adjectives — Grammar. any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying, as wise in a wise grandmother, or perfect in a perfect score, or handsome in He is extremely handsome. Other terms, as numbers (one cup; twelve months), certain demonstrative pronouns (this magazine; those questions), and terms that impose limits (each person; no mercy) can also function adjectivally, as can some nouns that are found chiefly in fixed phrases where they immediately precede the noun they modify, as bottle in bottle cap and bus in bus station. Synonyms: modifier, qualifier, identifier, describer, describing word.
- adjourning — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- adjudgment — The action of imposing judgment.
- adjudicate — If you adjudicate on a dispute or problem, you make an official judgment or decision about it.
- adjunction — (in phrase-structure grammar) the relationship between a branch of a tree representing a sentence to other branches to its left or right that descend from the same node immediately above
- adjunctive — that constitutes an adjunct
- adjuration — a solemn charge or command
- adjuratory — Of or pertaining to an adjuration.