11-letter words containing a, c, t, l
- active list — a list of officers available for full duty
- actual cost — the cost of a product based on incurred costs of material and labor required in its production.
- actualising — Present participle of actualise.
- actualistic — the doctrine that all reality is animate or in motion.
- actualities — Plural form of actuality.
- actualizing — Present participle of actualize.
- actuarially — in an actuarial manner
- acute angle — an angle that is less than 90°
- addictingly — In an addicting manner.
- addictively — In an addictive manner.
- adjectively — Grammar. any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying, as wise in a wise grandmother, or perfect in a perfect score, or handsome in He is extremely handsome. Other terms, as numbers (one cup; twelve months), certain demonstrative pronouns (this magazine; those questions), and terms that impose limits (each person; no mercy) can also function adjectivally, as can some nouns that are found chiefly in fixed phrases where they immediately precede the noun they modify, as bottle in bottle cap and bus in bus station. Synonyms: modifier, qualifier, identifier, describer, describing word.
- adolescents — Plural form of adolescent.
- adultescent — an adult who is still actively interested in youth culture
- aeneolithic — Chalcolithic.
- aeolotropic — anisotropic
- aeroculture — a method of growing plants without soil by suspending them above sprays that constantly moisten the roots with water and nutrients.
- aeroelastic — capable of changing shape under aerodynamic forces
- aesthetical — of or relating to aesthetics.
- affectingly — In a manner so as to affect.
- affectional — relating to or implying affection.
- affectively — in an emotional manner
- afflictions — Plural form of affliction.
- after-lunch — occurring after a midday meal
- aftercooler — a device for cooling compressed air or gases to reduce their volume or temperature.
- afterschool — for students and taking place after they finish their day in school, usually in the late afternoon: He’s looking for an afterschool job. Is there afterschool tutoring in math?
- agnatically — from an agnatic point of view
- agonistical — relating to conflict or struggle
- agriculture — Agriculture is farming and the methods that are used to raise and look after crops and animals.
- ahistorical — not related to history; not historical
- ai-complete — (artificial intelligence, jargon) /A-I k*m-pleet'/ (MIT, Stanford: by analogy with "NP-complete") A term used to describe problems or subproblems in artificial intelligence, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the "strong AI problem" (that is, the synthesis of a human-level intelligence). A problem that is AI-complete is, in other words, just too hard. See also gedanken.
- album chart — a regular listing of bestselling record albums
- alcalescent — Alternative spelling of alkalescent.
- alchemistic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alembicated — (of a literary style) excessively refined; precious
- algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
- aliturgical — designating those days on which the celebration of certain liturgies, especially the Eucharist, is forbidden.
- alkalescent — developing alkaline qualities
- all at once — If something happens all at once, it happens suddenly, often when you are not expecting it to happen.
- allocatable — that can be allocated.
- allocations — Plural form of allocation.
- allocentric — Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
- allocutions — Plural form of allocution.
- alloplastic — of or relating to alterations made to a patient's external circumstances for the purpose of affecting his mental condition
- alpenstocks — Plural form of alpenstock.
- alpha stock — any of the most active securities on the Stock Exchange of which there are between 100 and 200; at least ten market makers must continuously display the prices of an alpha stock and all transactions in them must be published immediately
- alt.country — a genre of country music originating in the 1990s and influenced by both early country music and contemporary rock music
- alt.sources — (messaging, programming) A Usenet newsgroup for posting program source code.
- altar cloth — the cloth used for covering an altar: often applied also to the frontal
- altarpieces — Plural form of altarpiece.
- altercation — An altercation is a noisy argument or disagreement.