11-letter words containing a, n
- areocentric — relating to a reference system which has Mars as its centre
- argand lamp — an oil lamp with a chimney, having a tubular wick that permits air to reach the center of the flame.
- argentinean — a native or inhabitant of Argentina.
- argentinian — Argentinian means belonging or relating to Argentina or its people.
- argumentive — argumentative
- arkansawyer — an Arkansan.
- arkhangelsk — seaport in NW Russia, at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River: pop. 407,000
- armageddons — Plural form of armageddon.
- armentieres — a town in N France: site of battles in both World Wars. Pop: 25 273 (1999)
- arminianism — a liberal Christian movement based on the doctrines of Jacobus Arminius, that stressed free will as opposed to Calvinistic predestination
- arms-length — not closely or intimately connected or associated; distant; remote: an arm's-length relationship.
- arnhem land — a region of N Australia in the N Northern Territory, large areas of which are reserved for native Australians
- aroint thee — away! begone!
- arolla pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra, found esp in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
- aromatizing — Present participle of aromatize.
- aron kodesh — Holy Ark.
- arraignment — Arraignment is when someone is brought before a court of law to answer a particular charge.
- arrangeable — to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly: to arrange books on a shelf.
- arrangement — Arrangements are plans and preparations which you make so that something will happen or be possible.
- arrangments — Plural form of arrangement.
- arrestation — the slowing or stopping of the development or progress of something
- arrestingly — attracting or capable of attracting attention or interest; striking: an arresting smile.
- arrhenotoky — a form of parthenogenesis which produces only male offspring
- arriere-ban — (in medieval France) a summons to the king's vassals to do military service
- ars antiqua — the style of composition characteristic of the 13th century, especially in France.
- arse around — If you say that someone is arsing around or arsing about, you mean that they are behaving in a silly, irritating way instead of getting something done.
- arsenicated — Treated with arsenate or other arsenic compound.
- arsonphobia — Pyrophobia.
- art nouveau — Art Nouveau is a style of decoration and architecture that was common in the 1890s. It is characterized by flowing lines and patterns of flowers and leaves.
- art student — a person studying art
- artemisinin — a drug obtained from the plant genus Artemisia and used to treat malaria
- arthropodan — relating to arthropods
- arthur monk — (James) Arthur ("Art") born 1957, U.S. football player.
- artisanship — the occupation or product of a craftsperson or artisan
- artlessness — The state or quality of being artless.
- artophorion — pyx (def 1a).
- aru islands — a group of islands in Indonesia, in the SW Moluccas. Area: about 8500 sq km (3300 sq miles)
- arylamines' — any of a group of amines in which one or more of the hydrogen atoms of ammonia are replaced by aromatic groups.
- arytenoidal — relating to the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx and also to other parts relating to them
- as anything — You use as anything after an adjective to emphasize a quality that someone has.
- as concerns — in regard to; with reference to; about
- as the next — If you say that you do something or experience something as much as the next person, you mean that you are no different from anyone else in the respect mentioned.
- ascendantly — in an ascendant manner
- ascendingly — moving upward; rising.
- ascensional — (astronomy) Relating to ascension.
- ascertained — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- aschelminth — in some systems of classification, any of a phylum (Aschelminthes) of wormlike animals, including rotifers, gastrotrichs, gordian worms, and nematodes: these animals are usually considered to be in separate phyla
- asciibonics — (chat) (From ASCII and Ebonics) A style of text communication in English which is most common on talk systems such as irc. Its notable characteristics are: Typing all in lowercase (and occasionally all in uppercase). Copious use of abbreviations of the sort "u" for "you" "1" for "one" (and therefore "some1" for "someone", "ne1" for "anyone"), "2" for "to", "r" for "are", etc. A general lack of punctuation, except for strings of question marks and exclamation marks. Common use of the idiom "m or f?", meant to elicit a statement of the listener's gender. Typical extended discourse in ASCIIbonics: "hey wasup ne1 want 2 cyber?" "m or f?" ASCIIbonics is similar to the way B1FF talked, although B1FF used more punctuation (lots more), and used all uppercase, rather than all lowercase. What's more, B1FF was only interested in warez, and so never asked "m or f?". It has been widely observed that some of the purest examples of ASCIIbonics come from non-native speakers of English. The phenomenon of ASCIIbonics predates by several years the use of the word "ASCIIbonics", as the word could only have been coined in or after late 1996, when "Ebonics" was first used in the US media to denote the US English dialects known in the linguistic literature as "Black Vernacular English".
- ascriptions — Plural form of ascription.
- ash-shaytan — (in Muslim usage) Satan; the devil.