12-letter words containing a, d, s
- adolescently — in an adolescent manner
- adorableness — very attractive or delightful; charming: What an adorable hat!
- adrian quist — intoxicated; drunk
- adrianopolis — Edirne
- 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
- adulteresses — Plural form of adulteress.
- adulterously — In a adulterous manner.
- advancements — Plural form of advancement.
- advantageous — If something is advantageous to you, it is likely to benefit you.
- adventitious — added or appearing accidentally or unexpectedly
- adventurists — Plural form of adventurist.
- adversaryism — an attitude, as in labor-management negotiations, that any opposition to demands indicates an unwillingness of one side to cooperate and bargain in good faith.
- 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
- aerodynamics — Aerodynamics is the study of the way in which objects move through the air.
- aerosiderite — a meteorite which is composed mainly of iron
- affectedness — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
- afficionados — Plural form of afficionado.
- affranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of affranchise.
- aggrandising — Present participle of aggrandise.
- 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
- air division — an organizational unit smaller than an air force, usually composed of a headquarters and two or more wings
- alexanderson — Ernst F. W [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1878–1975, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- alexandrines — Plural form of alexandrine.
- alexandrinus — the Greek uncial codex, dating from the early 5th century a.d., originally containing the complete text of the Greek Old and New Testaments.
- alias dictus — otherwise called; alias.
- all kinds of — You can use all kinds of to emphasize that there are a great number and variety of particular things or people.
- almond paste — ground almond mixture
- alongside of — at the side of; beside; adjoining
- alphabetised — (British) Arranged in alphabetical order.
- altitudinous — pertaining to altitude or height
- ambassadress — a woman ambassador
- ambidextrous — Someone who is ambidextrous can use both their right hand and their left hand equally skilfully.
- amdahl's law — (parallel) (Named after Gene Amdahl) If F is the fraction of a calculation that is sequential, and (1-F) is the fraction that can be parallelised, then the maximum speedup that can be achieved by using P processors is 1/(F+(1-F)/P).
- amundsen sea — a part of the South Pacific Ocean, in Antarctica off Byrd Land
- amyl sulfide — a yellow liquid consisting of a mixture of isomers having the formula (C 5 H 11) 2 S, used chiefly in the preparation of organic sulfur compounds.
- anaphrodisia — diminished sexual desire.
- and so forth — and so on; and other such things; et cetera
- androgenesis — a type of reproduction in insects and plants involving the development of an embryo that contains only paternal chromosomes
- androscoggin — a river flowing from NE New Hampshire through SW Maine into the Kennebec River. 171 miles (275 km) long.
- androsterone — an androgenic steroid hormone produced in the testes. Formula: C19H30O2
- anecdotalism — an inclination to relate anecdotes