13-letter words containing a, n
- auction pitch — a variety of all fours in which players bid to determine the trump or pitch.
- auctioneering — Present participle of auctioneer.
- audaciousness — Risky or daring behaviour.
- audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
- audio-lingual — pertaining to listening comprehension and speaking, especially in learning a foreign language.
- augmentations — Plural form of augmentation.
- aulic council — a council, founded in 1498, of the Holy Roman Emperor. It functioned mainly as a judicial body
- aum shinrikyo — a syncretistic Japanese cult combining elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, founded by Shoko Asahara in 1986; responsible for a number of murders and in particular a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995
- austenitizing — to form austenite in (a ferrous alloy) by heating.
- austin dobson — (Henry) Austin, 1840–1921, English poet, biographer, and essayist.
- australianism — the Australian national character or spirit
- australianize — (esp of a new immigrant) to adopt or cause to adopt Australian habits and attitudes; integrate into Australian society
- austrian pine — an evergreen tree, Pina nigra austriaca
- authentically — not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique.
- authenticated — Prove or show (something, esp. a claim or an artistic work) to be true or genuine.
- authenticates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authenticate.
- authenticator — a person or thing that authenticates.
- authorisation — Alternative spelling of authorization.
- authoritarian — If you describe a person or an organization as authoritarian, you are critical of them controlling everything rather than letting people decide things for themselves.
- authorization — an authorizing or being authorized
- auto-injector — An auto-injector is a hypodermic syringe that you can use to inject yourself with a liquid.
- autochthonous — (of rocks, deposits, etc) found where they and their constituents were formed
- autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
- autoinfection — infection by a pathogenic agent already within the body or infection transferred from one part of the body to another
- automatonlike — Like an automaton; robotic.
- automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
- autonomically — autonomous.
- autooxidation — autoxidation.
- autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
- autumn crocus — a liliaceous plant, Colchicum autumnale, of Europe and N Africa having pink or purplish autumn flowers
- availableness — Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.
- avant-gardism — the attitudes, techniques, etc., of the cultural avant-garde.
- averruncation — the act of averting or turning away
- aviation fuel — fuel used to power airplanes
- avocationally — in one's leisure time
- award-winning — An award-winning person or thing has won an award, especially an important or valuable one.
- awe-inspiring — If you describe someone or something as awe-inspiring, you are emphasizing that you think that they are remarkable and amazing, although sometimes rather frightening.
- awning window — a window frame having one or more sashes hinged at the top and swinging outward.
- azerbaijanian — a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan.
- bab el mandeb — a strait between SW Arabia and E Africa, connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden
- baba ghanoush — a thick purée of aubergines, tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic, originating in North Africa and the Mediterranean
- baby elephant — a very young elephant
- baby snatcher — a person who steals a baby from its pram
- back and fill — to manoeuvre the sails by alternately filling and emptying them of wind to navigate in a narrow place
- back clipping — a word formed by omitting the last part of the form from which it is derived.
- back emission — the secondary emission of electrons from an anode
- back mutation — the reversion of a mutant to the original phenotype
- back to front — If you are wearing something back to front, you are wearing it with the back of it at the front of your body. If you do something back to front, you do it the wrong way around, starting with the part that should come last.
- back-breaking — Back-breaking work involves a lot of hard physical effort.
- back-end load — the final charges of commission and expenses made by an investment trust, insurance policy, etc, when the investor is paid out