10-letter words containing a, o, n, e
- acroterion — acroterium.
- actinolite — a green mineral of the amphibole group consisting of calcium magnesium iron silicate. Formula: Ca2(Mg,Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2
- actionable — If something that you do or say to someone is actionable, it gives them a valid reason for bringing a legal case against you.
- actionless — inactive, without action
- ad hominem — directed against a person rather than against his arguments
- adaptogens — Plural form of adaptogen.
- adderstone — a prehistoric ornamental bead
- 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
- adequation — Equivalence.
- adhesional — relating to adhesion
- adipokines — Plural form of adipokine.
- admonished — to caution, advise, or counsel against something.
- admonisher — One who admonishes.
- admonishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admonish.
- admonitive — relating to admonition; admonitory
- adolescent — Adolescent is used to describe young people who are no longer children but who have not yet become adults. It also refers to their behaviour.
- adornments — Plural form of adornment.
- adrenalone — An adrenergic agonist used as a topical vasoconstrictor and hemostatic.
- adrianople — Edirne
- adroitness — expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- aemulation — Archaic spelling of emulation.
- aerobeacon — A light used to warn aircraft away from tall structures.
- aeromancer — A practitioner of aeromancy.
- aeromarine — relating to navigation of aircraft above the ocean.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- aeronomist — a scientist who studies the upper atmosphere
- aerophones — Plural form of aerophone.
- aeroplanes — Plural form of aeroplane.
- aeroponics — aeroculture.
- aeruginous — bluish-green, like copper rust
- affections — feelings of fondness, esteem
- affordance — A potential action that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
- affrontive — characterized by a propensity to cause offence
- aforenamed — Named earlier in a document.
- afternoone — Obsolete spelling of afternoon.
- afternoons — during the afternoon, esp regularly
- agent noun — a noun denoting the doer of an action, as editor or jogger.
- aggeration — A heaping up; accumulation.
- aggression — Aggression is a quality of anger and determination that makes you ready to attack other people.
- agonizedly — in an agonized way
- agrégation — (in France) a civil service examination for some posts in secondary and higher education
- aha moment — an instant at which the solution to a problem becomes clear
- aiken code — (data) An alternative form of the Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) system for encoding numbers. Where BCD encodes each decimal digit in normal binary, Aiken code uses the encoding shown below. This is supposed to be less prone to corruption. The following table shows the encoding of each decimal digit, D, in BCD and Aiken code: D BCD Aiken 0 0000 0000 1 0001 0001 2 0010 0010 3 0011 0011 4 0100 0100 5 0101 1011 (inverted 4) 6 0110 1100 (inverted 3) 7 0111 1101 (inverted 2) 8 1000 1110 (inverted 1) 9 1001 1111 (inverted 0) The Aiken code was probably designed by Howard Aiken in the 1940s or 1950s for use in data transmission. Compare: Gray code.
- alanbrooke — Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount. 1883–1963, British field marshal; chief of Imperial General Staff (1941–46)