11-letter words containing a, c, i, s
- americanist — a person who studies some aspect of America, such as its history or languages
- amici prism — a compound prism that spreads out incident white light into a spectrum but produces no deviation of the central color of the dispersed beam.
- amino acids — any of a class of organic compounds that contains at least one amino group, –NH 2 , and one carboxyl group, –COOH: the alpha-amino acids, RCH(NH 2)COOH, are the building blocks from which proteins are constructed.
- amphibrachs — Plural form of amphibrach.
- amphicelous — concave on both sides, as the bodies of the vertebrae of fishes.
- amphilochus — a seer, the son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, and the brother of Alcmaeon.
- amphimacers — Plural form of amphimacer.
- anacamptics — The science of reflected light; catoptrics.
- anachronism — You say that something is an anachronism when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
- anachronist — A person who has anachronistic views or habits.
- anacoenosis — a figure of speech in which an appeal is made to one's listeners or opponents for their opinion or judgment as to the subject under discussion.
- anaesthetic — Anaesthetic is a substance that doctors use to stop you feeling pain during an operation, either in the whole of your body when you are unconscious, or in a part of your body when you are awake.
- anaglyptics — (arts) The art of carving or embossing in low relief.
- analeptics' — restoring; invigorating; giving strength after disease.
- analogistic — a person who employs or argues from analogy.
- anarchistic — An anarchistic person believes in anarchism. Anarchistic activity or literature promotes anarchism.
- anastomotic — Anatomy. communication between blood vessels by means of collateral channels, especially when usual routes are obstructed.
- ancestorial — of, belonging to, or relating to ancestors
- ancientness — The state or quality of being ancient.
- ancillaries — subordinate; subsidiary.
- anesthetics — Plural form of anesthetic.
- angelicness — The state or quality of being angelic.
- angioscopes — Plural form of angioscope.
- anglicanism — Anglicanism is the beliefs and practices of the Church of England, and of the churches related to it.
- animalcules — Plural form of animalcule.
- animalistic — If you describe a person or their behaviour as animalistic, you mean that they do not try to hide or control their basic feelings and physical needs.
- anisocarpic — (of a flower) having a lower number of carpels than of other floral parts.
- anisocercal — (of fish) having unequal tail-fin lobes
- anisodactyl — (of the feet of passerine birds) having the first toe directed backwards and the other three toes directed forwards
- anisometric — not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts or unequal measurements
- anisotropic — not isotropic; having different physical properties in different directions
- annunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of annunciate.
- anomalistic — tending to be anomalous
- anthracosis — a lung disease due to inhalation of coal dust
- anti-social — Someone who is anti-social is unwilling to meet and be friendly with other people.
- antibiotics — Plural form of antibiotic.
- antiblastic — antagonistic to growth.
- anticarious — preventing or retarding caries.
- antichrists — Plural form of antichrist.
- anticipates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anticipate.
- anticlastic — (of a surface) having a curvature, at a given point and in a particular direction, that is of the opposite sign to the curvature at that point in a perpendicular direction
- antiemetics — Plural form of antiemetic.
- antifascism — opposition to fascism
- antifascist — opposed to fascism
- antignostic — pertaining to knowledge.
- antimusical — opposed to musical conventions
- antiplastic — allaying or preventing the growth of new tissue.
- antiscience — opposed to science or scientific method
- antisecrecy — opposed to secrecy, particularly in government
- antisemitic — Alternative spelling of anti-Semitic.