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11-letter words containing n, a, c

  • afficionado — aficionado.
  • afflictions — Plural form of affliction.
  • afforcement — an increase in force or strength
  • affordances — Plural form of affordance.
  • affranchise — to release from servitude or an obligation
  • affranchize — (possibly nonstandard) alternative spelling of affranchise.
  • affrication — the changing of (a consonantal speech sound) to an affricate
  • aficionadas — Plural form of aficionada.
  • aficionados — Plural form of aficionado.
  • afrocentric — centered on, emphasizing, or showing the influence of African or, sometimes, African-American history and culture
  • after-lunch — occurring after a midday meal
  • agency shop — a contract arrangement between an employer and the union representing the majority of employees, which requires those who do not wish to be members to pay the union a fee equivalent to union dues
  • aggrievance — Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
  • agnatically — from an agnatic point of view
  • agnosticism — Agnosticism is the belief that it is not possible to say definitely whether or not there is a God. Compare atheism.
  • agonic line — an imaginary line on the surface of the earth connecting points of zero magnetic declination
  • agonistical — relating to conflict or struggle
  • agony uncle — a man who writes the replies to readers' letters in an agony column
  • agronomical — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
  • air cleaner — a filter that prevents dust and other particles from entering the air-intake of an internal-combustion engine
  • air command — the Canadian air force
  • air current — a mass of air moving from one area to another
  • air curtain — an air stream across a doorway to exclude draughts, etc
  • air cushion — an inflatable cushion, usually made of rubber or plastic
  • aircraftman — a serviceman of the most junior rank in the RAF
  • aircraftmen — Plural form of aircraftman.
  • airsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the aircraft in which one is traveling.
  • albuminuric — related to the state of albuminuria
  • alcalescent — Alternative spelling of alkalescent.
  • alcaligenes — any of several rod-shaped aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Alcaligenes, found in the intestinal tract of humans and other vertebrates and in dairy products.
  • alchemizing — Present participle of alchemize.
  • alcyonarian — any of various colonial anthozoans of the subclass Alcyonaria with eight tentacles and other body parts in branches or segments of eight
  • aleggeaunce — the alleviation of grief or a burden
  • aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
  • alkalescent — developing alkaline qualities
  • all at once — If something happens all at once, it happens suddenly, often when you are not expecting it to happen.
  • allegiances — the loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign.
  • allen screw — a screw that has a hexagonal cross section in the head, designed to be turned using an Allen key
  • allocations — Plural form of allocation.
  • allocentric — Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
  • allochronic — (biology, of taxa) occurring in different geologic time.
  • allocutions — Plural form of allocution.
  • allowancing — Present participle of allowance.
  • almond cake — the residue of almonds from which oil has been expressed.
  • alpenstocks — Plural form of alpenstock.
  • alpha cygni — Deneb
  • alt.country — a genre of country music originating in the 1990s and influenced by both early country music and contemporary rock music
  • altercation — An altercation is a noisy argument or disagreement.
  • ambivalence — the simultaneous existence of two opposed and conflicting attitudes, emotions, etc
  • ambivalency — uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
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