11-letter words containing a, n, i, c
- aeronautics — Aeronautics is the science of designing and building aeroplanes.
- aesculapian — of or relating to Aesculapius or to the art of medicine
- affectation — If you say that someone's attitude or behaviour is an affectation, you disapprove of the fact that it is not genuine or natural, but is intended to impress other people.
- affectingly — In a manner so as to affect.
- affectional — relating to or implying affection.
- affectioned — Simple past tense and past participle of affection.
- afficionado — aficionado.
- afflictions — Plural form of affliction.
- affranchise — to release from servitude or an obligation
- affranchize — (possibly nonstandard) alternative spelling of affranchise.
- affrication — the changing of (a consonantal speech sound) to an affricate
- aficionadas — Plural form of aficionada.
- aficionados — Plural form of aficionado.
- afrocentric — centered on, emphasizing, or showing the influence of African or, sometimes, African-American history and culture
- aggrievance — Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
- agnatically — from an agnatic point of view
- agnosticism — Agnosticism is the belief that it is not possible to say definitely whether or not there is a God. Compare atheism.
- agonic line — an imaginary line on the surface of the earth connecting points of zero magnetic declination
- agonistical — relating to conflict or struggle
- agronomical — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
- air cleaner — a filter that prevents dust and other particles from entering the air-intake of an internal-combustion engine
- air command — the Canadian air force
- air current — a mass of air moving from one area to another
- air curtain — an air stream across a doorway to exclude draughts, etc
- air cushion — an inflatable cushion, usually made of rubber or plastic
- aircraftman — a serviceman of the most junior rank in the RAF
- aircraftmen — Plural form of aircraftman.
- airsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the aircraft in which one is traveling.
- albuminuric — related to the state of albuminuria
- alcaligenes — any of several rod-shaped aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Alcaligenes, found in the intestinal tract of humans and other vertebrates and in dairy products.
- alchemizing — Present participle of alchemize.
- alcyonarian — any of various colonial anthozoans of the subclass Alcyonaria with eight tentacles and other body parts in branches or segments of eight
- allegiances — the loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign.
- allocations — Plural form of allocation.
- allocentric — Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
- allochronic — (biology, of taxa) occurring in different geologic time.
- allocutions — Plural form of allocution.
- allowancing — Present participle of allowance.
- alpha cygni — Deneb
- altercation — An altercation is a noisy argument or disagreement.
- ambivalence — the simultaneous existence of two opposed and conflicting attitudes, emotions, etc
- ambivalency — uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
- ambuscading — Present participle of ambuscade.
- amelanchier — A tree or shrub of a genus that includes the juneberries.
- amenorrheic — of or relating to amenorrhea
- americanism — An Americanism is an expression that is typical of people living in the United States of America.
- americanist — a person who studies some aspect of America, such as its history or languages
- americanize — to make or become American in outlook, attitudes, etc
- amethocaine — The drug tetracaine.
- amino acids — any of a class of organic compounds that contains at least one amino group, –NH 2 , and one carboxyl group, –COOH: the alpha-amino acids, RCH(NH 2)COOH, are the building blocks from which proteins are constructed.