12-letter words containing e, s, r
- antifebriles — Plural form of antifebrile.
- antigropelos — waterproof leggings used to protect against mud
- antihysteric — acting to counter hysteria
- antineutrons — Plural form of antineutron.
- antipleasure — opposed to pleasure
- antipyretics — Plural form of antipyretic.
- antistrophes — Plural form of antistrophe.
- antisymmetry — the correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane, line, or point; regularity of form or arrangement in terms of like, reciprocal, or corresponding parts.
- anton sailer — Anton [ahn-tohn] /ˈɑn toʊn/ (Show IPA), ("Toni") 1935–2009, Austrian skier.
- anzus treaty — Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, especially as associated in the mutual defense treaty (ANZUS Pact or ANZUS Treaty) of 1952.
- apfelstrudel — apple strudel
- apostle bird — a gregarious grey-and-brown Australian nest-building bird, Struthidea cinerea
- apostrophise — to address by apostrophe.
- apostrophize — to address an apostrophe to
- apothecaries — Plural form of apothecary.
- apparentness — The state or quality of being apparent.
- apple sucker — a small homopterous insect, Psyllia mali, originally of Europe, that is a serious pest of apple crops.
- applied arts — arts that are put to practical use
- appraisement — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
- appreciators — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- apprehension — Apprehension is a feeling of fear that something bad may happen.
- apprehensive — Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.
- apprentisage — Obsolete form of apprenticeage.
- appressorium — a flattened hypha of a parasitic fungus that penetrates the host tissues
- appropriates — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
- approximates — near or approaching a certain state, condition, goal, or standard.
- araeosystyle — (of columned buildings) having an alternately very wide and very narrow intercolumniation
- araneomorphs — Plural form of araneomorph.
- arbitrageurs — Plural form of arbitrageur.
- arborescence — treelike in size and form.
- arc cosecant — the angle, measured in radians, that has a cosecant equal to a given number. Symbol: csc −1. Abbreviation: arc csc;
- arc spectrum — a spectrum formed from the light produced by an electric arc, characteristic of the gas or vapor through which the arc passes.
- archdiocesan — Relating to an archdiocese.
- archdioceses — Plural form of archdiocese.
- arched truss — a truss having an archlike form but unlike a true arch in that it is free to move horizontally at its base, as in expanding or contracting because of temperature changes.
- archenterons — Plural form of archenteron.
- archeologist — archaeology.
- archerfishes — Plural form of archerfish.
- archesporial — the primitive cell, or group of cells, that give rise to the cells from which spores are derived.
- archesporium — archespore.
- archibenthos — the ocean bottom between the littoral and abyssal zones: from depths of approximately 200 feet (60 meters) to 3300 feet (1000 meters).
- archipelagos — Plural form of archipelago.
- archive site — (networking) (Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. Some well-known archive sites included Imperial College, UK, UUNET, USA, GNU archive site. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.
- arenaviruses — Plural form of arenavirus.
- arfvedsonite — a type of hornblende with the composition Na3(Fe,Mg)4FeSi8O22(OH)2
- argillaceous — (of sedimentary rocks and deposits) composed of very fine-grained material, such as clay, shale, etc
- ariel sharon — Ariel, 1928–2014, Israeli military and political leader; prime minister 2001–06.
- aristophanes — ?448–?380 bc, Greek comic dramatist, who satirized leading contemporary figures such as Socrates and Euripides. Eleven of his plays are extant, including The Clouds, The Frogs, The Birds, and Lysistrata
- aristotelian — of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy
- arm's-length — lacking intimacy or friendliness, esp when possessing some special connection, such as previous closeness