12-letter words containing e, n
- anti-lebanon — a mountain range running north and south between Syria and Lebanon, east of the Lebanon Mountains. Highest peak: Mount Hermon, 2814 m (9232 ft)
- anti-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- anti-nuclear — opposed to military and industrial applications of nuclear energy and to technologies which produce radioactive waste products
- anti-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- anti-science — a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
- anti-semitic — Someone or something that is anti-Semitic is hostile to or prejudiced against Jewish people.
- anti-strophe — the part of an ancient Greek choral ode answering a previous strophe, sung by the chorus when returning from left to right.
- antiacademic — opposed to education
- antiallergic — An antiallergic substance prevents or relieves allergies.
- antiandrogen — (steroid, pharmacology) Any substance that inhibits the release or the biological effects of an androgen.
- antiberiberi — Countering beriberi.
- antibusiness — opposed to business interests, particularly those of large-scale corporations
- anticatalase — a substance that inhibits the enzymatic action of a catalase.
- anticathexis — a change from one emotion to its opposite, as from hate to love.
- anticathodes — Plural form of anticathode.
- antichthones — the antipodes
- anticipately — (dated) In anticipation, in advance; anticipatedly.
- anticipative — inclined to anticipate; of or full of anticipation
- anticlerical — opposed to the power and influence of the clergy, esp in politics
- anticlimaxes — Plural form of anticlimax.
- anticonsumer — opposed to consumerism
- anticreative — opposed to originality of thought or the display of imagination
- anticyclones — Plural form of anticyclone.
- antideuteron — the antimatter counterpart to the deuteron.
- antidiabetes — Countering diabetes.
- antidiabetic — a drug which acts against diabetes
- antidiuretic — (of a hormone, treatment, etc) acting on the kidneys to control water excretion
- antieconomic — against economic growth or wellbeing
- antielectron — an elementary particle with a positive charge, a positron
- antientropic — showing a tendency towards order
- antiepilepsy — (of a drug or treatment) acting against epilepsy
- antiestrogen — any of several major female sex hormones produced primarily by the ovarian follicles of female mammals, capable of inducing estrus, developing and maintaining secondary female sex characteristics, and preparing the uterus for the reception of a fertilized egg: used, especially in synthetic form, as a component of oral contraceptives, in certain cancer treatments, and in other therapies.
- antifebriles — Plural form of antifebrile.
- antifeminine — opposed to or discriminating against women or feminine characteristics or behaviour
- antifeminism — the opposition to feminism
- antifeminist — a person, movement or action opposed to feminism
- antigenicity — the quality or extent of being antigenic
- antigropelos — waterproof leggings used to protect against mud
- antihydrogen — hydrogen in which the nucleus is an antiproton with an orbiting positron
- antihysteric — acting to counter hysteria
- antilegomena — the books of the New Testament which have been excluded from the canon of Scripture
- antileukemic — acting against leukemia
- antiliterate — opposed to literacy, acting against literacy
- antimagnetic — of or constructed of a material that does not acquire permanent magnetism when exposed to a magnetic field
- antimaterial — Lb particle physics Composed of antimatter.
- antimetabole — the repetition of words in reverse order for emphasis
- antimnemonic — difficult to remember (often deliberately so)
- antinepotism — opposed to or acting against nepotism
- antineuritic — inflammation of a nerve.
- antineutrino — the antiparticle of a neutrino; a particle having oppositely directed spin to a neutrino, that is, spin in the direction of its momentum