11-letter words starting with a
- accidentals — Plural form of accidental.
- accipitrine — of, relating to, or resembling a hawk; rapacious
- acclamation — Acclamation is a noisy or enthusiastic expression of approval for someone or something.
- acclamatory — a loud shout or other demonstration of welcome, goodwill, or approval.
- acclimating — Present participle of acclimate.
- acclimation — The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.
- acclimatise — Standard spelling of from=Non-Oxford British spelling.
- acclimatize — When you acclimatize or are acclimatized to a new situation, place, or climate, you become used to it.
- acclivities — Plural form of acclivity.
- acclivitous — an upward slope, as of ground; an ascent (opposed to declivity).
- accommodate — If a building or space can accommodate someone or something, it has enough room for them.
- accomodator — Misspelling of accommodator.
- accompanied — to go along or in company with; join in action: to accompany a friend on a walk.
- accompanier — Someone or something that accompanies.
- accompanies — to go along or in company with; join in action: to accompany a friend on a walk.
- accompanist — An accompanist is a musician, especially a pianist, who plays one part of a piece of music while someone else sings or plays the main tune.
- accomplices — Plural form of accomplice.
- accomptable — accountable
- accordances — Plural form of accordance.
- accordantly — agreeing; conforming; harmonious.
- accordatura — the notes to which a stringed instrument is tuned.
- accordingly — You use accordingly to introduce a fact or situation which is a result or consequence of something that you have just referred to.
- accordioned — Also called piano accordion. a portable wind instrument having a large bellows for forcing air through small metal reeds, a keyboard for the right hand, and buttons for sounding single bass notes or chords for the left hand.
- accoucheurs — Plural form of accoucheur.
- accoucheuse — a female obstetrician or midwife
- account day — (on the London Stock Exchange) the day on which deliveries and payments relating to transactions made during the preceding account are made
- account for — If a particular thing accounts for a part or proportion of something, that part or proportion consists of that thing, or is used or produced by it.
- accountable — If you are accountable to someone for something that you do, you are responsible for it and must be prepared to justify your actions to that person.
- accountably — subject to the obligation to report, explain, or justify something; responsible; answerable.
- accountancy — Accountancy is the theory or practice of keeping financial accounts.
- accountants — Plural form of accountant.
- accountings — the theory and system of setting up, maintaining, and auditing the books of a firm; art of analyzing the financial position and operating results of a business house from a study of its sales, purchases, overhead, etc. (distinguished from bookkeeping).
- accoutering — Present participle of accouter.
- accrediting — Present participle of accredit.
- accredition — The giving of credentials.
- accrescence — continual increase
- acculturate — (of a cultural or social group) to assimilate the cultural traits of another group
- acculturize — to cause (a nation, tribe, or other ethnic group) to adopt the culture of another people.
- accumulated — to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up: to accumulate wealth.
- accumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accumulate.
- accumulatio — (rhetoric) A forceful summarisation of previously made points.
- accumulator — a rechargeable device for storing electrical energy in the form of chemical energy, consisting of one or more separate secondary cells
- accusations — A charge or claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong.
- accusatival — of the accusative case
- accusatives — Plural form of accusative.
- accustomary — customary or usual
- accustoming — Present participle of accustom.
- accustomise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of accustomize.
- accustomize — (rare) To learn to adapt one's lifestyle to a new or changed environment.
- ace bandage — an elasticated bandage used to restrict blood flow to the site of an injury and so reduce inflammation