10-letter words starting with a
- adjustable — If something is adjustable, it can be changed to different positions or sizes.
- adjustably — In a way that is adjustable.
- adjustment — An adjustment is a small change that is made to something such as a machine or a way of doing something.
- adjuvanted — (medicine) Modified by addition of an adjuvant.
- admeasured — Simple past tense and past participle of admeasure.
- admeasures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admeasure.
- administer — If someone administers something such as a country, the law, or a test, they take responsibility for organizing and supervising it.
- admiration — Admiration is a feeling of great liking and respect for a person or thing.
- admirative — possessing admiration
- admiraunce — admirance
- admiringly — displaying or feeling admiration: admiring looks.
- admissable — Alternative spelling of admissible.
- admissible — If evidence is admissible, it is allowed in a court of law.
- admissibly — In a manner that is admissible; acceptably.
- admissions — the procedure for admitting students to study at a college, university, or school
- admittable — having the ability to be admitted
- admittance — Admittance is the act of entering a place or institution or the right to enter it.
- admittedly — You use admittedly when you are saying something which weakens the importance or force of your statement.
- admittible — Archaic spelling of admittable.
- admixtures — Plural form of admixture.
- admonished — to caution, advise, or counsel against something.
- admonisher — One who admonishes.
- admonishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admonish.
- admonition — An admonition is a warning or criticism about someone's behaviour.
- admonitive — relating to admonition; admonitory
- admonitory — admonishing; warning
- adnominals — Plural form of adnominal.
- adobe flat — a gently sloping clayey plain formed by a short-lived stream or flood water
- 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.
- adoptively — in an adoptive manner; by adoption
- adorations — Plural form of adoration.
- adornments — Plural form of adornment.
- adposition — (grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context.
- adrenaline — a hormone that is secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress and increases heart rate, pulse rate, and blood pressure, and raises the blood levels of glucose and lipids. It is extracted from animals or synthesized for such medical uses as the treatment of asthma. Chemical name: aminohydroxyphenylpropionic acid; formula: C9H13NO3
- adrenalise — (British spelling) To render frightening or thrilling, such as to stimulate the production of adrenalin.
- adrenalize — to stir to action; excite: The promise of victory adrenalized the team.
- adrenalone — An adrenergic agonist used as a topical vasoconstrictor and hemostatic.
- adrenergic — releasing or activated by adrenaline or an adrenaline-like substance
- adriamycin — a trade name of the anticancer drug doxorubicin
- adrian iii — Saint, Italian ecclesiastic: pope a.d. 884–885.
- adrianople — Edirne
- adroitness — expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- adsorbable — Able to be adsorbed.
- adsorbates — Plural form of adsorbate.
- adsorption — an adsorbing or being adsorbed; adhesion of the molecules of a gas, liquid, or dissolved substance to a surface
- adsorptive — relating to or characterized by adsorption
- adulations — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
- adullamite — a person who has withdrawn from a political group and joined with a few others to form a dissident group
- adult home — any of various private residences for former state psychiatric patients, supervised by a department of a state or city government.
- adulterant — a substance or ingredient that adulterates