11-letter words containing i, n, l, s
- ancillaries — subordinate; subsidiary.
- angelicness — The state or quality of being angelic.
- angioplasty — a surgical technique for restoring normal blood flow through an artery narrowed or blocked by atherosclerosis, either by inserting a balloon into the narrowed section and inflating it or by using a laser beam
- anglicanism — Anglicanism is the beliefs and practices of the Church of England, and of the churches related to it.
- anglo-asian — An Anglo-Asian person is someone of Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi origin who has grown up in Britain.
- anglo-irish — the English language as spoken in Ireland
- animalcules — Plural form of animalcule.
- animalistic — If you describe a person or their behaviour as animalistic, you mean that they do not try to hide or control their basic feelings and physical needs.
- anisocercal — (of fish) having unequal tail-fin lobes
- anisodactyl — (of the feet of passerine birds) having the first toe directed backwards and the other three toes directed forwards
- annihilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of annihilate.
- annulations — Plural form of annulation.
- anomalistic — tending to be anomalous
- anthologies — Plural form of anthology.
- anthologise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of anthologize.
- anthologist — a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or on the same subject: an anthology of Elizabethan drama; an anthology of modern philosophy.
- anti-social — Someone who is anti-social is unwilling to meet and be friendly with other people.
- antibilious — of a nature that can be used to counter biliousness
- antiblastic — antagonistic to growth.
- anticlastic — (of a surface) having a curvature, at a given point and in a particular direction, that is of the opposite sign to the curvature at that point in a perpendicular direction
- antielitism — the state of being opposed to elitism
- antielitist — against elitism, populist
- antileprosy — acting against leprosy
- antileptons — Plural form of antilepton.
- antimissile — relating to defensive measures against missile attack
- antimusical — opposed to musical conventions
- antiplastic — allaying or preventing the growth of new tissue.
- antirealism — the denial of an objective reality
- antirealist — relating to antirealism
- antislavery — opposed to slavery, esp slavery of Black people
- anxiolytics — Plural form of anxiolytic.
- apollinaris — an effervescent mineral water
- apologising — to offer an apology or excuse for some fault, insult, failure, or injury: He apologized for accusing her falsely.
- appeasingly — in an appeasing manner
- arenicolous — growing or living in sand or sandy places
- arrestingly — attracting or capable of attracting attention or interest; striking: an arresting smile.
- aru islands — a group of islands in Indonesia, in the SW Moluccas. Area: about 8500 sq km (3300 sq miles)
- arylamines' — any of a group of amines in which one or more of the hydrogen atoms of ammonia are replaced by aromatic groups.
- ascendingly — moving upward; rising.
- ascensional — (astronomy) Relating to ascension.
- aschelminth — in some systems of classification, any of a phylum (Aschelminthes) of wormlike animals, including rotifers, gastrotrichs, gordian worms, and nematodes: these animals are usually considered to be in separate phyla
- ashen light — a faint glow visible on the unlit side of the planet Venus in its crescent phase.
- ashlar line — a horizontal line, indicated at a building site with a taut string, that corresponds to the exterior surface plane of a masonry wall.
- asplanchnic — having no gut
- assentingly — in a concurring or complying manner
- assessingly — So as to assess.
- assoilments — Plural form of assoilment.
- astrologian — (obsolete) An astrologer.
- asynclitism — The position of a baby in the uterus such that the head is presenting first, tilted to the shoulder and thus no longer in line with the birth canal.
- atka island — an island in the Andreanof Group of SW Alaska, in the central Aleutian Islands.