12-letter words containing a, c, d
- adjudication — the act of adjudicating
- adjudicative — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- adjudicators — Plural form of adjudicator.
- adjudicatory — relating to adjudication
- adjudicature — An act of adjudication; a judgment.
- adjunctively — in an adjunctive manner
- adjunctivity — The state or quality of being adjunctive, or of forming or constituting an adjunct.
- adminiculary — Adminicular.
- adminiculate — to attest or corroborate; to confirm or affirm as true
- adolescences — the transitional period between puberty and adulthood in human development, extending mainly over the teen years and terminating legally when the age of majority is reached; youth.
- adolescently — in an adolescent manner
- adrenochrome — a chemical pigment produced by the oxidation of adrenaline
- adriatic sea — an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula
- adscititious — added or supplemental; additional
- adularescent — (of minerals, such as moonstone) having or emitting a milky or bluish iridescence
- advance copy — a copy of a book, speech etc released to the media, reviewers, etc before it is published, delivered, etc and before it is necessarily in its final state
- advance poll — (in an election) a poll held prior to election day to permit voters who expect to be absent then to cast their ballots
- advancements — Plural form of advancement.
- aerodonetics — the study of soaring or gliding flight, esp the study of gliders
- aerodynamics — Aerodynamics is the study of the way in which objects move through the air.
- aeromedicine — the medical treatment of disorders associated with air or space travel
- affectedness — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
- affectionado — Misspelling of aficionado.
- afficionados — Plural form of afficionado.
- affranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of affranchise.
- agriproducts — Plural form of agriproduct.
- aid climbing — climbing that employs mechanical devices (aids) to accomplish difficult manoeuvres (artificial moves)
- aide-de-camp — An aide-de-camp is an officer in the armed forces who helps an officer of higher rank.
- air corridor — an air route along which aircraft are allowed to fly
- air cylinder — a cylinder containing air, esp one fitted with a piston and used for damping purposes
- airport code — a three-letter abbreviation of the names of the world's major airports, used especially as an identifier for routing baggage.
- alginic acid — powdery substance extracted from kelp
- alias dictus — otherwise called; alias.
- ambitendency — ambivalence, especially when acted out; a tendency to contradictory behavior arising from conflicting impulses.
- americanized — If someone is Americanized, they do things in a way that is typical of the United States.
- anapodeictic — (rare, rhetoric) not able to be shown or proved by argument; undemonstrable.
- and counting — If you say and counting after a number or an amount of something, you mean that the number or amount is continuing to increase.
- andragogical — the methods or techniques used to teach adults: Many educators believe that the principles of andragogy, as advanced by Malcolm Knowles, have great relevance to adult education; others are not so certain.
- androcentric — having or regarding man or the male sex as central or primary
- androclinium — clinandrium.
- androgenetic — related to androgenesis
- androscoggin — a river flowing from NE New Hampshire through SW Maine into the Kennebec River. 171 miles (275 km) long.
- anecdotalism — an inclination to relate anecdotes
- antecedental — preceding; prior: an antecedent event.
- antecedently — in an antecedent manner
- anthropodicy — An attempt, or argument attempting, to justify the existence of humanity as good (contrast theodicy).
- anti-radical — opposed to radicalism or radicals.
- antiacademic — opposed to education
- anticathodes — Plural form of anticathode.
- antidiabetic — a drug which acts against diabetes