11-letter words containing a, n, o
- afficionado — aficionado.
- affiliation — If one group has an affiliation with another group, it has a close or official connection with it.
- affirmation — the act of affirming or the state of being affirmed
- afflictions — Plural form of affliction.
- afforcement — an increase in force or strength
- affordances — Plural form of affordance.
- afforesting — Present participle of afforest.
- 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
- afternoon's — the time from noon until evening.
- afternooner — a person or thing that appears, flourishes, etc., in the afternoon: One of radio's favorite afternooners is a soap opera.
- agathodemon — Alternative spelling of agathodaemon.
- agency shop — a contract arrangement between an employer and the union representing the majority of employees, which requires those who do not wish to be members to pay the union a fee equivalent to union dues
- aggradation — to raise the grade or level of (a river valley, a stream bed, etc.) by depositing detritus, sediment, or the like.
- aggravation — the act of aggravating, or making worse, or the condition of being aggravated
- 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.
- aggrupation — (Philippines) A group, an organization.
- agitational — the act or process of agitating; state of being agitated: She left in great agitation.
- 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.
- agonothetes — a person who presided over the ancient Olympic Games
- agony uncle — a man who writes the replies to readers' letters in an agony column
- agranulosis — (rare) agranulocytosis.
- agronomical — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
- agronomists — Plural form of agronomist.
- aid station — a medical station in a forward area where the sick and wounded are given emergency treatment
- air command — the Canadian air force
- air cushion — an inflatable cushion, usually made of rubber or plastic
- air station — an airfield, usually smaller than an airport but having facilities for the maintenance of aircraft
- airboarding — a snow sport in which participants slide down slopes headfirst lying flat on an inflatable board
- airdropping — Present participle of airdrop.
- albendazole — An antiparasitic anthelmintic used especially against the larvae of tapeworms.
- albugineous — related to or resembling the white of an egg
- albuminoids — any of a class of simple proteins, as keratin, gelatin, or collagen, that are insoluble in all neutral solvents; scleroprotein.
- alcyonarian — any of various colonial anthozoans of the subclass Alcyonaria with eight tentacles and other body parts in branches or segments of eight
- aldermaston — a village in S England, in West Berkshire unitary authority, Berkshire, SW of Reading: site of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment and starting point of the Aldermaston marches (1958–63), organized by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Pop: 927 (2001)
- alderperson — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- aldopentose — a monosaccharide with five carbon atoms
- aldosterone — the principal mineralocorticoid secreted by the adrenal cortex. A synthesized form is used in the treatment of Addison's disease. Formula: C21H27O5
- alendronate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of alendronic acid.
- aleppo pine — a pine tree, Pinus halepensis, native to the Mediterranean area, that is planted as an ornamental and is a source of turpentine.
- aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
- alfonso xii — 1857–85, king of Spain 1874–85.
- alkanethiol — any compound containing an alkyl group joined to a mercapto group, as methyl mercaptan or methanethiol, CH 3 SH.