10-letter words containing act
- lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
- lactosuria — the presence of lactose in the urine
- lord acton — Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron) 1834–1902, English historian.
- low-impact — Low-impact exercise does not put a lot of stress on your body.
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
- malolactic — Of or denoting bacterial fermentation that converts malic acid to lactic acid, especially as a secondary process used to reduce the acidity of some wines.
- morphactin — any of various synthetic compounds, derived from fluorine and carboxylic acid, that regulate the growth and development of plants.
- non-impact — the striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision: The impact of the colliding cars broke the windshield.
- noncontact — the state of not making contact
- nonfactual — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- nonreactor — someone who does not react
- olfactible — Having an odor; capable of being smelled.
- over-react — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overacting — Present participle of overact.
- overaction — Excessive action (as of a muscle of the body).
- overactive — exceptionally or excessively active; too active.
- paratactic — of, relating to, or involving parataxis
- phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- playacting — to engage in make-believe.
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polydactyl — having many or several digits.
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- postimpact — occurring after an impact
- practicers — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practician — a practitioner or practiser of any profession, skill, or art
- practicing — actively working at a profession, especially medicine or law.
- practisant — a conspirator; someone who plots or schemes
- practising — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- precontact — prior contact
- pro-acting — serving temporarily, especially as a substitute during another's absence; not permanent; temporary: the acting mayor.
- pro-active — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- protracted — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- protractor — a person or thing that protracts.
- public act — public law (def 1).
- re-contact — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- re-enactor — a person who re-enacts something
- reactional — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- reactivate — to render active again; revive.
- reactively — tending to react.
- reactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- recontract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- reenacting — to make into an act or statute: Congress has enacted a new tax law.
- reflex-act — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- refractile — refractive (def 2).
- refracting — undergoing or causing refraction
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- refractive — of or relating to refraction.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- refracture — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
- retractile — capable of being drawn back or in, as the head of a tortoise; exhibiting the power of retraction.