12-letter words containing a, n, i, s, o, l
- possessional — of, relating to, or characterized by possession
- postal union — an international agreement on postal rates and services.
- postcolonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- postillation — the writing or preaching of postils
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
- postvaccinal — occurring after a vaccine
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
- processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
- prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
- professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- quadrillions — Plural form of quadrillion.
- quasi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- questionable — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- questionably — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- relationless — having no family relations
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
- rhode island — US state
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- royal tennis — court tennis.
- russian doll — wooden figures that nest inside one other
- saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- sailing boat — sailboat.
- sal ammoniac — ammonium chloride.
- salamandroid — an amphibian of the genus Salamandra
- salification — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salinization — the process by which a nonsaline soil becomes saline, as by the irrigation of land with brackish water.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- saltationism — any of several theories holding that the evolution of species proceeds in major steps by the abrupt transformation of an ancestral species into a descendant species of a different type, rather than by the gradual accumulation of small changes.
- saltationist — a person who adheres to saltationism
- salutational — relating to salutation
- salutatorian — (in some U.S. schools and colleges) the student ranking second highest in the graduating class, who delivers the salutatory at commencement.
- salvationist — a member of the Salvation Army.
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- sansculottic — relating to sansculottes
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.