13-letter words containing g, i, n, a
- anti-hygienic — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- anticigarette — opposing cigarette smoking
- anticoagulant — acting to prevent or impair coagulation, esp of blood
- antiespionage — Countering or opposing espionage.
- antiforeigner — opposed to foreigners or foreign countries
- antigenically — Immunology. any substance that can stimulate the production of antibodies and combine specifically with them.
- antigonus (i) — 382-301 b.c.; Macedonian general under Alexander the Great: king of Macedonia (306-301)
- antiguerrilla — acting against guerrilla activity
- antiimmigrant — Opposing immigrants or immigration.
- antilittering — (of a campaign) intended to discourage litter dropping
- antilogarithm — a number whose logarithm to a given base is a given number
- antimutagenic — capable of reducing the frequency of mutation.
- antioestrogen — a drug that inhibits the activity of oestrogens
- antioncogenes — Plural form of antioncogene.
- antioxidizing — to convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen.
- antique glass — pot metal (def 4).
- antireligious — opposed to religious ideas, beliefs, and organizations
- antismuggling — acting to prevent or reduce smuggling
- anything goes — If people say 'anything goes', they mean that anything people say or do is considered acceptable, and usually they mean that they do not approve of this.
- anythingarian — a person who adheres to no particular creed
- apotheosizing — Present participle of apotheosize.
- appealingness — the quality of being appealing
- apprenticeage — (obsolete) Apprenticeship.
- appropriating — Present participle of appropriate.
- approximating — Present participle of approximate.
- apron strings — If you say that someone is tied to another person's apron strings, you mean that they are controlled or influenced too much by the other person.
- archaeologian — (archaic) An archaeologist.
- argentiferous — containing or bearing silver
- argentine ant — a small brown ant, Iridomyrmex humilis, introduced into the southern U.S. from South America: a household and fruit pest.
- argumentation — Argumentation is the process of arguing in an organized or logical way, for example in philosophy.
- argumentative — Someone who is argumentative is always ready to disagree or start quarrelling with other people.
- arm wrestling — a contest in which two people sit facing each other each with one elbow resting on a table, clasp hands, and each tries to force the other's arm flat onto the table while keeping his own elbow touching the table
- armor-plating — The armor-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering that is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- arterializing — Present participle of arterialize.
- as much again — twice as much
- assassinating — Present participle of assassinate.
- assignability — The quality of being assignable.
- assigned risk — a risk that, under state law, is assigned to an insurer from a pool of insurers who would not otherwise accept it.
- astereognosis — inability to recognize objects by touch
- astonishingly — causing astonishment or surprise; amazing: an astonishing victory; an astonishing remark.
- athenagoras i — (Aristocles Spyrou) 1886–1972, Archbishop Ecumenical of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church 1948–72.
- atherogenesis — (medicine) The formation of atheromas, especially on the walls of the arteries.
- atomic energy — nuclear energy
- auctioneering — Present participle of auctioneer.
- audio-lingual — pertaining to listening comprehension and speaking, especially in learning a foreign language.
- augmentations — Plural form of augmentation.
- austenitizing — to form austenite in (a ferrous alloy) by heating.
- autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
- avant-gardism — the attitudes, techniques, etc., of the cultural avant-garde.
- award-winning — An award-winning person or thing has won an award, especially an important or valuable one.