12-letter words containing a, c, t, i, n
- adjunctively — in an adjunctive manner
- adjunctivity — The state or quality of being adjunctive, or of forming or constituting an adjunct.
- adminiculate — to attest or corroborate; to confirm or affirm as true
- aerification — an act of combining with air.
- aerodonetics — the study of soaring or gliding flight, esp the study of gliders
- aeromagnetic — of magnetism in the atmosphere
- aeronautical — Aeronautical means involving or relating to the design and construction of aeroplanes.
- aesthetician — a student of aesthetics
- affectations — Plural form of affectation.
- affectionado — Misspelling of aficionado.
- affectionate — If you are affectionate, you show your love or fondness for another person in the way that you behave towards them.
- african time — unpunctuality
- afrocentrism — centered on Africa or on African-derived cultures, as those of Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti: Afrocentric art.
- agamogenetic — Of or pertaining to agamogenesis.
- agnostically — a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience. Synonyms: disbeliever, nonbeliever, unbeliever; doubter, skeptic, secularist, empiricist; heathen, heretic, infidel, pagan.
- aircraftsman — a person holding the rank of noncommissioned officer in the RAF.
- alcaptonuria — Alternative spelling of alkaptonuria.
- alphitomancy — the use of barley meal as a means of divination.
- altercations — Plural form of altercation.
- altiloquence — Pompous language; lofty speech.
- ambitendency — ambivalence, especially when acted out; a tendency to contradictory behavior arising from conflicting impulses.
- aminobutyric — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to any of several isomeric univalent radicals in which a hydrogen atom of a butyric radical is replaced by an amino group.
- amniotic sac — membrane around embryo or foetus
- amphictyonic — of or relating to an amphictyon or an amphictyony.
- amphotericin — an amphoteric antibiotic produced by the bacterium Streptomyces nodosus and used in the treatment of fungal infections.
- anabaptistic — relating to Anabaptists
- anacatharsis — severe vomiting
- anacathartic — causing anacatharsis
- anachronists — Plural form of anachronist.
- anaerobiotic — anaerobic
- anaesthetics — the science, study, and practice of anaesthesia and its application
- anagrammatic — a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”.
- analphabetic — not in alphabetical order
- analytically — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- anapaestical — belonging to the form of poetry which uses a reversed dactyl consisting of two short syllables followed by a long one
- anaphylactic — exaggerated allergic reaction to a foreign protein resulting from previous exposure to it.
- anapodeictic — (rare, rhetoric) not able to be shown or proved by argument; undemonstrable.
- anastigmatic — (of a lens or optical device) not astigmatic
- anatomically — of or relating to anatomy.
- anchor light — a 32-point light, visible from at least two miles away, shown at night near the bow and not more than 20 feet (6 meters) above the deck of a vessel lying at anchor.
- anchoritical — in the manner of or resembling an anchorite
- 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.
- androcentric — having or regarding man or the male sex as central or primary
- androgenetic — related to androgenesis
- anecdotalism — an inclination to relate anecdotes
- anelasticity — the property of a substance which has a disproportionate relationship between stress and strain
- aneurysmatic — (medicine) Describing a blood vessel that has an aneurysm; aneurysmal.
- anglo-celtic — of or relating to an inhabitant of Australia who was or whose ancestors were born in the British Isles
- animalculist — a person who subscribes to the theory of animalculism
- animatronics — a branch of film and theatre technology that combines traditional puppetry techniques with electronics to create lifelike animated effects