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11-letter words containing a, r, n, t

  • adumbrating — Present participle of adumbrate.
  • adumbration — to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
  • adventurers — Plural form of adventurer.
  • adventuress — a woman who seeks adventure, esp one who seeks success or money through daring exploits
  • adventuring — the act of doing adventurous things or having adventures
  • adventurism — Adventurism is a willingness to take risks, especially in order to obtain an unfair advantage in politics or business.
  • adventurist — If you describe someone or something as adventurist, you disapprove of them because they are willing to take risks in order to gain an unfair advantage in business or politics.
  • adventurous — Someone who is adventurous is willing to take risks and to try new methods. Something that is adventurous involves new things or ideas.
  • advertently — attentive; heedful.
  • advertising — Advertising is the activity of creating advertisements and making sure people see them.
  • advertizing — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
  • adzharistan — an autonomous region in SW Georgia, bordered by Turkey and the Black Sea. 1120 sq. mi. (2900 sq. km). Capital: Batumi.
  • aerodonetic — Relating to aerodonetics.
  • aeronautics — Aeronautics is the science of designing and building aeroplanes.
  • aerostation — the science of operating lighter-than-air craft
  • affirmation — the act of affirming or the state of being affirmed
  • afforcement — an increase in force or strength
  • afforesting — Present participle of afforest.
  • affrication — the changing of (a consonantal speech sound) to an affricate
  • affrighting — Present participle of affright.
  • afrocentric — centered on, emphasizing, or showing the influence of African or, sometimes, African-American history and culture
  • after-lunch — occurring after a midday meal
  • afterburner — a device in the exhaust system of an internal-combustion engine for removing or rendering harmless potentially dangerous components in the exhaust gases
  • 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.
  • aggradation — to raise the grade or level of (a river valley, a stream bed, etc.) by depositing detritus, sediment, or the like.
  • aggravating — causing or full of aggravation: I've had an aggravating day.
  • aggravation — the act of aggravating, or making worse, or the condition of being aggravated
  • aggregating — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
  • aggregation — the act or process of aggregating
  • aggrupation — (Philippines) A group, an organization.
  • agronomists — Plural form of agronomist.
  • aguardiente — any inferior brandy or similar spirit, esp from Spain, Portugal, or South America
  • air current — a mass of air moving from one area to another
  • air curtain — an air stream across a doorway to exclude draughts, etc
  • air station — an airfield, usually smaller than an airport but having facilities for the maintenance of aircraft
  • air turbine — a small turbine driven by compressed air, esp one used as a starter for engines
  • aircraftman — a serviceman of the most junior rank in the RAF
  • aircraftmen — Plural form of aircraftman.
  • alabastrine — a finely granular variety of gypsum, often white and translucent, used for ornamental objects or work, such as lamp bases, figurines, etc.
  • alan turing — (person)   Alan M. Turing, 1912-06-22/3? - 1954-06-07. A British mathematician, inventor of the Turing Machine. Turing also proposed the Turing test. Turing's work was fundamental in the theoretical foundations of computer science. Turing was a student and fellow of King's College Cambridge and was a graduate student at Princeton University from 1936 to 1938. While at Princeton Turing published "On Computable Numbers", a paper in which he conceived an abstract machine, now called a Turing Machine. Turing returned to England in 1938 and during World War II, he worked in the British Foreign Office. He masterminded operations at Bletchley Park, UK which were highly successful in cracking the Nazis "Enigma" codes during World War II. Some of his early advances in computer design were inspired by the need to perform many repetitive symbolic manipulations quickly. Before the building of the Colossus computer this work was done by a roomful of women. In 1945 he joined the National Physical Laboratory in London and worked on the design and construction of a large computer, named Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). In 1949 Turing became deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester where the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, the worlds largest memory computer, was being built. He also worked on theories of artificial intelligence, and on the application of mathematical theory to biological forms. In 1952 he published the first part of his theoretical study of morphogenesis, the development of pattern and form in living organisms. Turing was gay, and died rather young under mysterious circumstances. He was arrested for violation of British homosexuality statutes in 1952. He died of potassium cyanide poisoning while conducting electrolysis experiments. An inquest concluded that it was self-administered but it is now thought by some to have been an accident. There is an excellent biography of Turing by Andrew Hodges, subtitled "The Enigma of Intelligence" and a play based on it called "Breaking the Code". There was also a popular summary of his work in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach".
  • albert nile — a river in NW Uganda: part of the upper Nile River.
  • aldermanity — the body of aldermen
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • alexandrite — a green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone
  • alfred lunt — Alfred, 1893–1977, U.S. actor (husband of Lynn Fontanne).
  • all-nighter — an entertainment, such as a pop concert or film screening, that lasts all night
  • all-terrain — designed to travel on all types of ground, including rough ground
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