12-letter words containing a, n, t, o, e, l
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- earth almond — chufa.
- east lothian — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- echolocation — the general method of locating objects by determining the time for an echo to return and the direction from which it returns, as by radar or sonar.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- ejaculations — Plural form of ejaculation.
- elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.
- electronical — (rare) electronic.
- elicitations — Plural form of elicitation.
- eliminations — Plural form of elimination.
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- emblazonment — The act of emblazoning.
- embolization — (surgery) A nonsurgical, minimally invasive procedure that effects the selective occlusion of blood vessels by purposely introducing emboli.
- emigrational — Relating to emigration.
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
- emotionalism — An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics. (from 19th c.).
- emotionalist — Someone whose thoughts and actions are governed by their emotions rather than by logic.
- emotionality — The state or quality of being emotional.
- emotionalize — To give something an emotional quality.
- en papillote — (of food) cooked in oiled greaseproof paper or foil
- enantiostyly — the asymmetrical deflection of the style, either to the left or to the right of the floral axis
- enarthrodial — Relating to an enarthrosis.
- endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
- endothelioma — Any of various mostly benign neoplasms derived from the endothelium of blood vessels or lymph channels.
- endotracheal — Situated or occurring within or performed by way of the trachea.
- enjoyability — The state or condition of being enjoyable.
- enophthalmos — The posterior displacement of the eyeball within the orbit due to changes in the volume of the orbit (bone) relative to its contents (the eyeball and orbital fat), or loss of function of the orbitalis muscle.
- enterococcal — Relating to, or produced by, an enterococcus.
- enterostomal — relating to enterostomy
- entoplastral — relating to an entoplastron
- entoplastron — the median plate of a turtle's plastron
- entropically — By means of or in relation to entropy.
- epistolarian — A writer of epistles.
- epithalamion — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
- equalisation — Alternative spelling of equalization.
- equalization — The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized.
- equinoctials — Plural form of equinoctial.
- espagnolette — the fastening device on a French window
- ethanolamine — (chemistry) a hydroxy-amine, HO.CH2.CH2.NH2, manufactured by the reaction of ethylene oxide with ammonia; it is found naturally in a combined form in cephalin, and has many industrial applications.
- ethnological — Of or pertaining to ethnology.
- euroterminal — a railway terminus from which trans-European trains operate
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.