11-letter words containing e, n, o
- appellation — An appellation is a name or title that a person, place, or thing is given.
- appointable — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- appointment — The appointment of a person to a particular job is the choice of that person to do it.
- apportioned — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
- apportioner — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
- apprecation — (obsolete) Earnest prayer; devout wish.
- appropinque — to approach
- approvement — (obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
- apron piece — (in a staircase) a header receiving the ends of rough strings, carriage pieces, and the joists of landings.
- apron stage — a stage that projects into the auditorium so that the audience sit on three sides of it
- arab legion — a police force (1920–56) under British supervision, responsible for keeping order among desert tribesmen in Trans-Jordan.
- arabinoside — a glycoside yielding arabinose when hydrolysed
- araneomorph — (zoology) Any of the Araneomorphae, a suborder of spiders whose fangs cross with a pinching action.
- arborescent — having the shape or characteristics of a tree
- archaeornis — an extinct primitive Jurassic bird, formerly placed in the genus Archaeornis but now thought to be a species of archaeopteryx
- archdeacons — Plural form of archdeacon.
- archegonial — relating to an archegonium
- archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
- archenteron — the cavity within an embryo at the gastrula stage of development that eventually becomes the digestive cavity
- arctic zone — the section of the earth's surface lying between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole.
- arduousness — requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: an arduous undertaking.
- arenicolous — growing or living in sand or sandy places
- areocentric — relating to a reference system which has Mars as its centre
- armageddons — Plural form of armageddon.
- 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
- aron kodesh — Holy Ark.
- arrestation — the slowing or stopping of the development or progress of something
- arrhenotoky — a form of parthenogenesis which produces only male offspring
- 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.
- 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.
- arytenoidal — relating to the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx and also to other parts relating to them
- as concerns — in regard to; with reference to; about
- ascensional — (astronomy) Relating to ascension.
- ashwaubenon — a town in E Wisconsin.
- asperations — Plural form of asperation.
- aspergation — the action of sprinkling, suffusing or irrigating with water
- assentation — servile or hypocritical agreement
- assertation — An assertion, statement of opinion.
- assiniboine — a river in W Canada, rising in E Saskatchewan and flowing southeast and east to the Red River at Winnipeg. Length: over 860 km (500 miles)
- assoilments — Plural form of assoilment.
- assortments — Plural form of assortment.
- asteroidean — an echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, comprising the starfishes.
- astoundment — the state of being astounded
- astromancer — divination by means of the stars.
- astronomers — Plural form of astronomer.
- astronomize — to practise or study astronomy or engage in astronomical matters
- at one blow — by or with only one action; all at one time
- at one time — If you say that something was the case at one time, you mean that it was the case during a particular period in the past.
- athermanous — capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation