12-letter words containing a, d, i, t
- adriatic sea — an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula
- adscititious — added or supplemental; additional
- adulterating — Present participle of adulterate.
- adulteration — an adulterating or being adulterated
- adventitious — added or appearing accidentally or unexpectedly
- adventurists — Plural form of adventurist.
- adversatives — Plural form of adversative.
- advertisable — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- advertorials — Plural form of advertorial.
- advisability — proper to be suggested or recommended; desirable or wise, as a course of action: Is it advisable for me to write to him?
- aerodonetics — the study of soaring or gliding flight, esp the study of gliders
- aerosiderite — a meteorite which is composed mainly of iron
- aethelred ii — ("Ethelred the Unready") a.d. 968?–1016, king of England 978–1013, 1014–1016.
- affectionado — Misspelling of aficionado.
- affrightedly — in a frightened or alarmed manner
- after-dinner — immediately following dinner: an after-dinner speech.
- agathodaimon — a spirit of good fortune, associated with the serpent
- agglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of agglutinate.
- agriproducts — Plural form of agriproduct.
- agroindustry — an activity combining agriculture and industry
- aids-related — caused by or associated with the AIDS virus
- air disaster — a very serious air crash in which in a lot of people are killed or injured
- airfreighted — Simple past tense and past participle of airfreight.
- airport code — a three-letter abbreviation of the names of the world's major airports, used especially as an identifier for routing baggage.
- aldolization — the conversion of an aldehyde to aldol
- alias dictus — otherwise called; alias.
- alloantibody — an antibody that reacts with an antigen from a genetically different individual of the same species.
- alphabetised — (British) Arranged in alphabetical order.
- alphabetized — (North America) Arranged in alphabetical order.
- altitudinous — pertaining to altitude or height
- ambidextrous — Someone who is ambidextrous can use both their right hand and their left hand equally skilfully.
- ambitendency — ambivalence, especially when acted out; a tendency to contradictory behavior arising from conflicting impulses.
- ambrettolide — a colorless liquid, C 16 H 28 O 2 , having a strong musky odor, used as a fixative in the manufacture of perfume.
- amphidentate — (of a ligand) able to coordinate through either of two different atoms, as in CN–
- 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.
- and the like — If you mention particular things or people and then add and the like, you are indicating that there are other similar things or people that can be included in what you are saying.
- andouillette — a French sausage made from pig intestines, smaller than an andouille
- androcentric — having or regarding man or the male sex as central or primary
- androgenetic — related to androgenesis
- anecdotalism — an inclination to relate anecdotes
- anesthetized — to render physically insensible, as by an anesthetic.
- angst-ridden — characterized by a feeling of dread or anxiety
- animadverted — Simple past tense and past participle of animadvert.
- animadverter — a person who expresses his or her opinion without fear of criticism or rebuke
- animated gif — (graphics, file format) (GIF89a) A variant of the GIF image format, often used on web pages to provide moving icons and banners. The GIF89a format supports multiple "frames" that give the impression of motion when displayed in sequence, much like a flip book. The animation may repeat continuously or play once. Animated GIFs aren't supported by earlier web browsers, however the first frame of the image is still shown. There are many utilities to create animated GIFs from a sequence of individual GIF files. There are also utilities that will produce animated GIFs automatically from a piece of text or a single image. One problem with this format is the size of the files produced, as they are by definition a sequence of individual images. Apart from minimising the number of frames, the best way to decrease file size is to assist the LZW compression by using blocks of solid colour, avoid dithering, and use fewer colours. If areas of an image don't change from one frame to another, they don't need to be redrawn so make the area a transparent block in the second frame.
- animated oat — an oat, Avena sterilis, of the Mediterranean region, having spikelets that twist or move when exposed to sudden moisture, due to the hygroscopic action of the awns.
- annuity bond — a fixed-rate bond that pays out the same amount of cash every year over its lifetime
- antediluvial — Of or pertaining to a time before Noah's flood (or similar deluge myth).
- antediluvian — Antediluvian things are old or old-fashioned.