11-letter words containing a, n, i, g
- agelasimine — (organic compound) Any of various adenine-related bicyclic diterpenoids isolated from the orange sponge Agelas mauritania, structurally related to the agelasines.
- agglutinant — sticking together; adhesive
- agglutinate — to adhere or cause to adhere, as with glue
- agglutinins — Plural form of agglutinin.
- aggradation — to raise the grade or level of (a river valley, a stream bed, etc.) by depositing detritus, sediment, or the like.
- aggrandised — Simple past tense and past participle of aggrandise.
- aggrandized — Simple past tense and past participle of aggrandize.
- aggrandizer — One who makes great or aggrandizes.
- aggrandizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aggrandize.
- aggravating — causing or full of aggravation: I've had an aggravating day.
- aggravation — the act of aggravating, or making worse, or the condition of being aggravated
- aggregating — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
- aggregation — the act or process of aggregating
- aggressions — the action of a state in violating by force the rights of another state, particularly its territorial rights; an unprovoked offensive, attack, invasion, or the like: The army is prepared to stop any foreign aggression.
- aggrievance — Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
- aggrupation — (Philippines) A group, an organization.
- agitational — the act or process of agitating; state of being agitated: She left in great agitation.
- 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
- agonisingly — Alternative spelling of agonizingly.
- agonistical — relating to conflict or struggle
- agonizingly — accompanied by, filled with, or resulting in agony or distress: We spent an agonizing hour waiting to hear if the accident had been serious or not.
- agranulosis — (rare) agranulocytosis.
- agrarianism — a movement for the equal division of landed property and for the promotion of agricultural interests.
- agronomical — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
- agronomists — Plural form of agronomist.
- aguardiente — any inferior brandy or similar spirit, esp from Spain, Portugal, or South America
- air surfing — surfing that involves aerial stunts
- airboarding — a snow sport in which participants slide down slopes headfirst lying flat on an inflatable board
- airbrushing — Present participle of airbrush.
- airdropping — Present participle of airdrop.
- alan turing — (person) Alan M. Turing, 1912-06-22/3? - 1954-06-07. A British mathematician, inventor of the Turing Machine. Turing also proposed the Turing test. Turing's work was fundamental in the theoretical foundations of computer science. Turing was a student and fellow of King's College Cambridge and was a graduate student at Princeton University from 1936 to 1938. While at Princeton Turing published "On Computable Numbers", a paper in which he conceived an abstract machine, now called a Turing Machine. Turing returned to England in 1938 and during World War II, he worked in the British Foreign Office. He masterminded operations at Bletchley Park, UK which were highly successful in cracking the Nazis "Enigma" codes during World War II. Some of his early advances in computer design were inspired by the need to perform many repetitive symbolic manipulations quickly. Before the building of the Colossus computer this work was done by a roomful of women. In 1945 he joined the National Physical Laboratory in London and worked on the design and construction of a large computer, named Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). In 1949 Turing became deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester where the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, the worlds largest memory computer, was being built. He also worked on theories of artificial intelligence, and on the application of mathematical theory to biological forms. In 1952 he published the first part of his theoretical study of morphogenesis, the development of pattern and form in living organisms. Turing was gay, and died rather young under mysterious circumstances. He was arrested for violation of British homosexuality statutes in 1952. He died of potassium cyanide poisoning while conducting electrolysis experiments. An inquest concluded that it was self-administered but it is now thought by some to have been an accident. There is an excellent biography of Turing by Andrew Hodges, subtitled "The Enigma of Intelligence" and a play based on it called "Breaking the Code". There was also a popular summary of his work in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach".
- albategnius — Latin name of Battani.
- albugineous — related to or resembling the white of an egg
- 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.
- algin fiber — an alkali-soluble fiber produced by injecting a fine stream of alkaline algin into an aqueous solution of a metallic salt, used chiefly in the manufacture of fine threads.
- alkalifying — Present participle of alkalify.
- all-nighter — an entertainment, such as a pop concert or film screening, that lasts all night
- allegations — Plural form of allegation.
- allegiances — the loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign.
- alleviating — to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate: to alleviate sorrow; to alleviate pain.
- alligations — Plural form of alligation.
- alloantigen — an antigen present in some but not all individuals of the same species, as those in different human blood groups.
- allowancing — Present participle of allowance.
- alpha cygni — Deneb
- alternating — happening in succession
- amazingness — The state or quality, of being amazing.
- ambiguating — Present participle of ambiguate.