11-letter words containing n, a, s, h
- anthesteria — one of the ancient Athenian festivals composing the Dionysia; a spring festival celebrating flowers and new wine.
- 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.
- anthracnose — any of several fungus diseases of plants and trees, such as vines and beans, characterized by oval dark depressed spots on the fruit and elsewhere
- anthracosis — a lung disease due to inhalation of coal dust
- anthropoids — Plural form of anthropoid.
- anti-jewish — anti-Semitic
- antichrists — Plural form of antichrist.
- antifashion — opposing mainstream fashion
- antiheroism — (literature) The quality of being an antihero.
- antipathies — Plural form of antipathy.
- antipathise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of antipathize.
- antipathist — a person feeling antipathy
- antiphonies — Plural form of antiphony.
- antiphrasis — the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal one, esp for ironic effect
- antisthenes — ?445–365 bc, Greek philosopher, founder of the Cynic school, who taught that the only good was virtue, won by self-control and independence from worldly needs
- antistrophe — the second of two movements made by a chorus during the performance of a choral ode
- antitarnish — resistant to or protecting against tarnishing
- antitheists — Plural form of antitheist.
- antithesize — To create antitheses.
- aphelandras — Plural form of aphelandra.
- archaeornis — an extinct primitive Jurassic bird, formerly placed in the genus Archaeornis but now thought to be a species of archaeopteryx
- archdeacons — Plural form of archdeacon.
- archenemies — Plural form of archenemy.
- archnemesis — A chief nemesis.
- arkhangelsk — seaport in NW Russia, at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River: pop. 407,000
- arms-length — not closely or intimately connected or associated; distant; remote: an arm's-length relationship.
- aron kodesh — Holy Ark.
- arsonphobia — Pyrophobia.
- artisanship — the occupation or product of a craftsperson or artisan
- as anything — You use as anything after an adjective to emphasize a quality that someone has.
- as the next — If you say that you do something or experience something as much as the next person, you mean that you are no different from anyone else in the respect mentioned.
- 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
- ash-shaytan — (in Muslim usage) Satan; the devil.
- ashamedness — the condition of feeling ashamed
- ashen light — a faint glow visible on the unlit side of the planet Venus in its crescent phase.
- ashen-faced — Someone who is ashen-faced looks very pale, especially because they are ill, shocked, or frightened.
- 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.
- ashwaubenon — a town in E Wisconsin.
- asphyxiants — Plural form of asphyxiant.
- asplanchnic — having no gut
- astaxanthin — (organic compound) A xanthophyll pigment that occurs widely in plants and animals, especially crustaceans.
- astonishing — Something that is astonishing is very surprising.
- astrophyton — The giant basket star, an early Mesozoic invertebrate.
- athermanous — capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation
- attachments — Plural form of attachment.
- authorising — Present participle of authorise.
- autochthons — Plural form of autochthon.
- autophanous — illuminated by a self-contained power source