10-letter words containing an
- anglophile — If you describe a non-British person as Anglophile, you mean that they admire Britain and British culture.
- anglophobe — a person who hates or fears England or its people
- anglophone — Anglophone communities are English-speaking communities in areas where more than one language is commonly spoken.
- angora cat — a long-haired variety of cat, originating in Britain from crosses between Abyssinian and Siamese breeds in the 1960s
- anguifauna — the snakes inhabiting a particular region
- anguishing — excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain: the anguish of grief.
- angularity — the condition of being angular
- angulation — an angular formation
- angwantibo — a rare gold-coloured prosimian primate of tropical Africa, Arctocebus calabarensis, having digits that are specialized as a pair of pincers for climbing: family Lorisidae (lorises)
- anharmonic — of or concerned with an oscillation whose frequency is not an integral factor or multiple of the base frequency
- anhelation — a panting or shortness of breath causing breathing difficulty
- anhidrosis — the absence of sweating
- anhidrotic — curbing the secretion of sweat
- anhungered — overcome or oppressed with hunger
- anhydremia — an abnormal decrease in the volume of the blood, due to loss of water.
- anhydrides — Plural form of anhydride.
- anhydrosis — the deficiency or absence of perspiration; adiaphoresis.
- animadvert — to comment with strong criticism (upon); make censorious remarks (about)
- animal fat — any fat obtained from animals
- animalcule — a microscopic animal such as an amoeba or rotifer
- animalists — Plural form of animalist.
- animalized — Simple past tense and past participle of animalize.
- animallike — Alternative spelling of animal-like.
- animalness — The quality of being animal; animality.
- animatedly — full of life, action, or spirit; lively; vigorous: an animated debate on the death penalty.
- animations — Plural form of animation.
- anisocoria — inequality in the size of the pupils.
- anisomeric — (of a chemical compound) lacking isomers
- anisotropy — Physics. of unequal physical properties along different axes. Compare isotropic (def 1).
- anjou pear — a thick, green, oval-shaped pear that ripens during the winter
- ankle boot — a boot that extends up as far as the ankle
- ankle jerk — a reflex extension of the foot, caused by contraction of the muscles of the calf, resulting from a sharp tap on the Achilles tendon; Achilles reflex.
- ankle sock — a short sock coming up to the ankle
- ankle-deep — tall or deep enough to cover the ankles
- anklebones — Plural form of anklebone.
- ankylosaur — any of various quadrupedal herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs constituting the suborder Ankylosauria, which were most abundant in upper Cretaceous times and had a very heavily armoured tanklike body
- ankylosing — Present participle of ankylose.
- annalistic — a chronicler of events, especially yearly ones; historian.
- anne frank — Anne, 1929–45, German Jewish girl who died in Belsen concentration camp in Germany: her diaries about her family hiding from Nazis in Amsterdam (1942–44) published in 1947.
- annexation — the act of annexing, esp territory, or the condition of being annexed
- annihilate — To annihilate something means to destroy it completely.
- anno regni — in the year of the reign
- annotating — Present participle of annotate.
- annotation — Annotation is the activity of annotating something.
- annotative — to supply with critical or explanatory notes; comment upon in notes: to annotate the works of Shakespeare.
- annotinous — one year old.
- announcers — Plural form of announcer.
- announcing — Present participle of announce.
- annoyances — Plural form of annoyance.
- annoyingly — causing annoyance; irritatingly bothersome: annoying delays.