12-letter words containing g, n, a
- agency nurse — a nurse employed by an agency, rather than by a hospital
- agent orange — a highly poisonous herbicide used as a spray for defoliation and crop destruction, esp by US forces during the Vietnam War
- agglutinable — Able to be agglutinated; that readily undergoes agglutination.
- agglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of agglutinate.
- agglutinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agglutinate.
- agglutinogen — an antigen that reacts with or stimulates the formation of a specific agglutinin
- aggrandising — Present participle of aggrandise.
- aggrandizing — Present participle of aggrandize.
- aggravations — Plural form of aggravation.
- aggregations — Plural form of aggregation.
- aggrievement — the state of being aggrieved
- aggrupations — Plural form of aggrupation.
- agnostically — a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience. Synonyms: disbeliever, nonbeliever, unbeliever; doubter, skeptic, secularist, empiricist; heathen, heretic, infidel, pagan.
- agony column — In a British newspaper or magazine, the agony column contains letters from readers about their personal problems, and advice on what to do about them.
- agranulocyte — a white blood cell without granules in its cytoplasm
- agribusiness — Agribusiness is the various businesses that produce, sell, and distribute farm products, especially on a large scale.
- agrippina ii — a.d. 16?–59? mother of the Roman emperor Nero and sister of Caligula.
- agrobusiness — the businesses collectively associated with the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products.
- agroindustry — an activity combining agriculture and industry
- aid climbing — climbing that employs mechanical devices (aids) to accomplish difficult manoeuvres (artificial moves)
- aiming point — the point at which a gun or bombsight is aimed in order to strike a desired target, often a point in advance of or behind the actual target.
- air drilling — Air drilling is a drilling method in which compressed air or nitrogen is used to cool the drill bit and lift cuttings out of the wellbore.
- air layering — a method of propagating a plant by girdling or cutting part way into a stem or branch and packing the area with a moist medium, as sphagnum moss, stimulating root formation so that the stem or branch can be removed and grown as an independent plant.
- airtightness — the quality of being airtight
- alan shugart — Alan F. Shugart
- alarm signal — a signal warning of danger
- alaska range — a mountain range in S central Alaska. Highest peak: Mount McKinley, 6194 m (20 320 ft)
- albumenizing — Present participle of albumenize.
- alcoholizing — Present participle of alcoholize.
- alginic acid — powdery substance extracted from kelp
- aliasing bug — stale pointer bug
- allegorizing — Present participle of allegorize.
- alluringness — The state or quality of being alluring.
- almightiness — The state or quality of being almighty.
- almond green — a yellowish-green colour
- alongside of — at the side of; beside; adjoining
- amalgamating — Present participle of amalgamate.
- amalgamation — the action or process of amalgamating
- ameliorating — Present participle of ameliorate.
- amelogenesis — the production of enamel by ameloblasts
- american rig — a rig for drilling oil and gas wells by using a chisel bit dropped from a considerable height.
- among others — used to indicate that there are several more people like the one or ones mentioned, but that you do not intend to mention them all
- amphiregulin — (protein) A particular autocrine growth factor.
- anacrogynous — having the female sex organs arising from any cell below the apex of the stem, thereby not terminating its growth, as certain liverworts.
- anadyr range — Chukot Range
- anaglyphical — Alternative form of anaglyphic.
- anagrammatic — a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”.
- analog clock — a clock that represents time by the position of hands on a dial.
- analog watch — a watch that represents time by the position of hands on a dial.
- analogically — In an analogical manner; in the manner of an analogy.