12-letter words containing a, l, i
- agglutinable — Able to be agglutinated; that readily undergoes agglutination.
- agglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of agglutinate.
- agglutinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agglutinate.
- agglutinogen — an antigen that reacts with or stimulates the formation of a specific agglutinin
- aggressively — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- 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.
- agrammatical — not obeying the rules of grammar
- agreeability — an agreeable disposition
- agrichemical — a chemical used in agriculture
- agricultural — Agricultural means involving or relating to agriculture.
- agrochemical — a chemical, such as a pesticide, used for agricultural purposes
- aid climbing — climbing that employs mechanical devices (aids) to accomplish difficult manoeuvres (artificial moves)
- aids-related — caused by or associated with the AIDS virus
- aiguillettes — Plural form of aiguillette.
- aileron roll — a roll consisting of one or more rotations, usually controlled by the use of ailerons.
- ailurophiles — Plural form of ailurophile.
- ailurophilia — a liking for cats, as by cat fanciers.
- ailurophilic — relating to ailurophilia
- ailurophobes — Plural form of ailurophobe.
- ailurophobia — an abnormal fear of cats
- ailurophobic — relating to ailurophobia
- air cylinder — a cylinder containing air, esp one fitted with a piston and used for damping purposes
- air drilling — Air drilling is a drilling method in which compressed air or nitrogen is used to cool the drill bit and lift cuttings out of the wellbore.
- air embolism — the presence in the tissues and blood of a gas, such as air or nitrogen bubbles, caused by an injection of air or, in the case of nitrogen, by an abrupt and substantial reduction in the ambient pressure
- air layering — a method of propagating a plant by girdling or cutting part way into a stem or branch and packing the area with a moist medium, as sphagnum moss, stimulating root formation so that the stem or branch can be removed and grown as an independent plant.
- air terminal — An air terminal is a building in which passengers wait before they get on to an aeroplane.
- airpocalypse — (informal) The presence of dense smog in many parts of China.
- al-khwarizmi — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- alarm signal — a signal warning of danger
- alberti bass — a reiterated broken-chord figure used as an accompaniment, especially in 18th-century rococo keyboard music.
- albumenizing — Present participle of albumenize.
- albuminoidal — (chemistry) Of the nature of an albuminoid.
- alcaptonuria — Alternative spelling of alkaptonuria.
- alchemically — in an alchemical manner
- alcoholicity — the strength of an alcoholic liquor
- alcoholizing — Present participle of alcoholize.
- aldebaranium — (chemistry, obsolete) A rejected name for ytterbium.
- aldermanlike — resembling an alderman, esp in being pompous
- aldolization — the conversion of an aldehyde to aldol
- alexander ii — 1198–1249, king of Scotland (1214–49), son of William (the Lion)
- alexander iv — (Rinaldo Conti) died 1261, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1254–61.
- alexander vi — original name Rodrigo Borgia. 1431–1503, pope (1492–1503): noted for his extravagance and immorality as well as for his patronage of the arts; father of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, with whom he is said to have committed incest
- 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.
- alexipharmac — an antidote
- alexipharmic — acting as an antidote
- alfonso xiii — 1886–1941, king of Spain (1886–1931), who was forced to abdicate on the establishment of the republic in 1931
- algesiometer — an instrument for determining the sensitiveness of the skin to a painful stimulus.
- alginic acid — powdery substance extracted from kelp
- alias dictus — otherwise called; alias.