10-letter words starting with ar
- armigerous — of, having, or entitled to have a coat of arms
- armillaria — any of various fungi of the genus Armillaria, which are white-spored and cause wood rot. Many species are parasitic.
- armipotent — strong in arms or war
- armistices — a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; truce: World War I ended with the armistice of 1918.
- armor-clad — covered with armor
- armorially — in an armorial manner
- armourless — having no armour
- arms cache — a hidden store of weapons
- army corps — a military formation that comprises two or more divisions and additional support arms
- army group — the largest operational formation of military land forces, normally comprising two or more armies or army corps under a designated commander.
- army-issue — given to soldiers in order to help them carry out their duties
- aromatical — (rare) aromatic.
- aromatized — Simple past tense and past participle of aromatize.
- arpeggiate — to play an arpeggio
- arpeggione — a stringed musical instrument of the early 19th century which was played with a bow
- arquebuses — Plural form of arquebuse.
- arraigning — Present participle of arraign.
- arrangment — Misspelling of arrangement.
- arrearages — Plural form of arrearage.
- arrenotoky — parthenogenesis in which only males are produced.
- arrestable — An arrestable offence is an offence that you can be arrested for.
- arrestment — the seizure of money or property to prevent a debtor paying one creditor in advance of another
- arrhythmia — any variation from the normal rhythm in the heartbeat
- arrhythmic — having irregular rhythm
- arricciato — arriccio.
- arrivistes — Plural form of arriviste.
- arrogantly — making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud: an arrogant public official.
- arrogating — Present participle of arrogate.
- arrogation — to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneself without right: to arrogate the right to make decisions.
- arrogative — Making undue claims and pretensions; prone to arrogance.
- arrow arum — a North American plant, Peltandra virginica, of wet areas, having large, arrow-shaped leaves and inconspicuous flowers enclosed in a narrow, pointed spathe.
- arrowgrass — either of two species, sea arrowgrass (Triglochin maritima) or marsh arrowgrass (T. palustris), of monocotyledonous perennials having long thin fleshy leaves and spikes of inconspicuous flowers
- arrowheads — Plural form of arrowhead.
- arrowsmith — a novel (1925) by Sinclair Lewis.
- arse about — to play the fool; act stupidly, esp in an irritating manner
- arsenicals — Plural form of arsenical.
- arsenolite — a mineral, arsenic trioxide, As 2 O 3 , occurring usually as a white incrustation on arsenical ores.
- arsmetrick — relating to the cheeks of a person's bottom that are identical
- arsy-varsy — wrong end foremost; completely backward: an arsy-varsy way of doing things.
- arsy-versy — backwards or upside down
- art dealer — a person who buys and sells works of art
- art lining — a system for aligning type in which the baseline is established some distance above the bottom of the body to accommodate letters with unusually long descenders.
- art runner — an art dealer who acts as a broker by introducing prospective buyers and sellers.
- art school — tertiary level college for students of art
- artaxerxes — Artaxerxes I465?-424? b.c.; king of ancient Persia: son of Xerxes I
- artemether — An antimalarial derived from artemisinin, and used to treat multiply drug-resistant strains of falciparum malaria.
- artemisias — Plural form of artemisia.
- arteriolar — relating to arterioles or minuscule arteries
- arterioles — Plural form of arteriole.
- artesunate — (medicine) A drug, of the artemisinin group, used to treat malaria.