12-letter words containing i, n, l, s, t
- antisociable — Antisocial.
- antisocially — In an antisocial manner.
- anton sailer — Anton [ahn-tohn] /ˈɑn toʊn/ (Show IPA), ("Toni") 1935–2009, Austrian skier.
- appellations — Plural form of appellation.
- appetisingly — Alternative spelling of appetizingly.
- applications — Plural form of application.
- appositional — the act of placing together or bringing into proximity; juxtaposition.
- aristotelian — of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy
- arts council — an organization that provides funding for a variety of arts activities
- aspirational — If you describe someone as aspirational, you mean that they have strong hopes of moving to a higher social status.
- assibilation — (linguistics) A sound change resulting in a sibilant consonant, commonly the final phase of palatalization.
- assimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- assimilation — an assimilating or being assimilated
- assimulating — Present participle of assimulate.
- assimulation — Obsolete form of assimilation.
- astonishable — (obsolete) Astonishing.
- astoundingly — capable of overwhelming with amazement; stunningly surprising.
- astringently — In the manner of an astringent.
- astronomical — If you describe an amount, especially the cost of something as astronomical, you are emphasizing that it is very large indeed.
- at intervals — If something happens at intervals, it happens several times with gaps or pauses in between.
- auction sale — an instance of items being sold by auction
- auscultating — Present participle of auscultate.
- auscultation — the diagnostic technique in medicine of listening to the various internal sounds made by the body, usually with the aid of a stethoscope
- australasian — Australasian means belonging or relating to Australasia or to its people.
- autoanalysis — Psychoanalysis. self-analysis.
- backsolution — The process or result of backsolving.
- balinese cat — a breed of cat with medium-length silky hair, a plumed tail, blue eyes, large ears, and a dark mask, tail, and paws
- ballast line — the level to which a vessel is immersed when in ballast.
- banana split — A banana split is a kind of dessert. It consists of a banana cut in half along its length, with ice cream, nuts, and sauce on top.
- belligerents — warlike; given to waging war.
- best-selling — A best-selling product such as a book is very popular and a large quantity of it has been sold.
- betting slip — a piece of paper used to place a bet
- billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
- bindle stiff — a hobo.
- biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
- blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
- blastulation — the process of blastula formation
- blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
- blind stitch — a type of stitch that is visible on one side of the material only
- blind summit — a point on a road where a vehicle approaching the top of a hill or incline cannot see vehicles approaching up the other side of the hill
- blisteringly — causing a blister or blisters.
- blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
- blossom into — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
- blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
- blue-singlet — working-class
- bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
- brinell test — a test for determining the relative hardness (Brinell hardness) of a metal by measuring the diameter of the indentation made when a hardened steel ball is forced into the metal under a given pressure: the measure of hardness (Brinell number) is equal to the load in kilograms divided by the surface area in square millimeters of the indentation
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable