12-letter words containing a, s, r
- alto-stratus — a cloud of a class characterized by a generally uniform gray sheet or layer, lighter in color than nimbostratus and darker than cirrostratus: of medium altitude, about 8000–20,000 feet (2450–6100 meters).
- alton towers — a 19th-century Gothic Revival mansion with extensive gardens in NW central England, in Staffordshire: site of a large amusement park
- amateurishly — In an amateurish or nonprofessional manner.
- ambartsumian — Viktor A(mazaspovich). 1908–96, Armenian astrophysicist, renowned for his description of radio sources as explosions in the core of galaxies
- ambassadress — a woman ambassador
- ambidextrous — Someone who is ambidextrous can use both their right hand and their left hand equally skilfully.
- ambisextrous — Informal. sexually attracted to both sexes; bisexual. used by or suitable for either sex; unisex: ambisextrous hair styles.
- ambisinister — clumsy or unskillful with both hands.
- ambulatories — Plural form of ambulatory.
- amentiferous — bearing aments
- americanisms — a custom, trait, belief, etc., peculiar to the United States of America or its citizens.
- americanness — of or relating to the United States of America or its inhabitants: an American citizen.
- among others — used to indicate that there are several more people like the one or ones mentioned, but that you do not intend to mention them all
- amortisation — Alternative spelling of amortization.
- amourousness — Rare spelling of amorousness.
- ampere's law — the law that a magnetic field induced by an electric current is, at any point, directly proportional to the product of the current intensity and the length of the current conductor, inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point and the conductor, and perpendicular to the plane joining the point and the conductor.
- amphicarpous — producing two kinds of fruit that differ either in form or in time of ripening.
- amphitropous — (of a plant ovule) partially inverted so that the base and the micropyle at the apex are the same distance from the funicle
- an iron fist — a cruel and unyielding attitude or approach
- anacatharsis — severe vomiting
- anachronisms — Plural form of anachronism.
- anachronists — Plural form of anachronist.
- anacrogynous — having the female sex organs arising from any cell below the apex of the stem, thereby not terminating its growth, as certain liverworts.
- anaerobiosis — life in the absence of oxygen
- anamorphoses — Plural form of anamorphosis.
- anamorphosis — an image or drawing distorted in such a way that it becomes recognizable only when viewed in a specified manner or through a special device
- anaphrodisia — diminished sexual desire.
- anchorperson — the primary reporter on a news television broadcast
- and so forth — and so on; and other such things; et cetera
- androgenesis — a type of reproduction in insects and plants involving the development of an embryo that contains only paternal chromosomes
- androscoggin — a river flowing from NE New Hampshire through SW Maine into the Kennebec River. 171 miles (275 km) long.
- androsterone — an androgenic steroid hormone produced in the testes. Formula: C19H30O2
- anemochorous — (of a fruit, seed, or spore) adapted for dispersion by wind.
- anemotropism — orientation in response to a current of air.
- aneurysmatic — (medicine) Describing a blood vessel that has an aneurysm; aneurysmal.
- angel's hair — Also called capelli d’angelo. Italian Cookery. a type of very thin pasta.
- angiocarpous — being or having fruit contained in a vessel such as a shell
- angiosarcoma — a rare, malignant tumour which grows rapidly in the blood vessels
- angst-ridden — characterized by a feeling of dread or anxiety
- angularities — Plural form of angularity.
- animatronics — a branch of film and theatre technology that combines traditional puppetry techniques with electronics to create lifelike animated effects
- anisomorphic — differing in the semantic scope of terms referring to the real world: for instance, English and Russian are anisomorphic with regard to colour terms, English treating light blue and navy blue as shades of one colour but Russian treating these two shades as unrelated
- anisothermal — (thermodynamics) Of or pertaining to a system that is not in thermal equilibrium, that does not have a single fixed temperature.
- anisotropies — Plural form of anisotropy.
- anisotropism — the state of being anisotropic
- anklewarmers — Plural form of anklewarmer.
- ankylosaurus — a plant-eating dinosaur of the Cretaceous period that had a tail resembling a club and a body covering of thick scales
- annunciators — Plural form of annunciator.
- anorthoclase — a variety of microcline, rich in sodium and sometimes having a play of color: sometimes considered a variety of orthoclase.
- anorthositic — resembling or consisting of anorthosite