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12-letter words containing a, t, o, r, n, e

  • storage tank — A storage tank is a large vessel for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • storage unit — rented space to store items
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • stratotanker — an aircraft that can refuel other aircrafts at high speeds and altitudes
  • strepitation — the quality or state of being strepitant
  • stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
  • strontianite — a mineral, strontium carbonate, SrCO 3 , occurring in radiating, fibrous, or granular aggregates and crystals, varying from white to yellow and pale green: a minor ore of strontium.
  • sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
  • suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
  • subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • superstation — an independent television station whose signal is transmitted by satellite to subscribers on a cable system.
  • surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
  • sweet orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • synantherous — with united anthers
  • synarthroses — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
  • tangier zone — a former internationalized zone on the Strait of Gibraltar: became a part of Morocco 1956. Compare Morocco (def 1).
  • tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
  • tau neutrino — a hypothetical type of neutrino that would obey a conservation law together with the tau lepton, with the total number of tau leptons and tau neutrinos minus the total number of their antiparticles remaining constant.
  • technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
  • technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
  • teleosaurian — of or relating to the teleosaur
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • temporaneous — lasting a short while
  • tenuirostral — pertaining to a group of birds Tenuirostres which have slender bills
  • ternary form — a musical form in three sections, with the third usually an exact repetition of the first.
  • terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
  • tetrapolitan — of or related to a tetrapolis
  • the creation — God's act of bringing the universe into being
  • the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
  • theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
  • theatregoing — the act of regularly attending the theatre
  • theatromania — an abnormal fondness or mania for the theatre
  • theatrophone — a late 19th century service that allowed subscribers to listen to concerts or plays through the telephone
  • theoretician — a person who deals with or is expert in the theoretical side of a subject: a military theoretician.
  • theorization — to form a theory or theories.
  • theory-laden — (of an expression) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego, which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation
  • thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
  • thermohaline — relating to both the temperature and salinity of ocean water
  • thioarsenate — any of a group of chemical compounds considered salts of the thioarsenic acids
  • thioarsenite — any of a group of chemical compounds considered salts of the thioarsenious acids
  • thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
  • thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
  • timbale iron — a metal mold made in any of several shapes and usually provided with a long handle, for deep-frying timbales.
  • titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
  • toaster oven — an electrical appliance that functions as both an oven and a toaster and is small enough to fit on a kitchen counter or table.
  • toilet-train — to train (a young child) to use a toilet for bowel and bladder movements.
  • tongue graft — whip graft.
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