12-letter words containing n, a, s, t
- adularescent — (of minerals, such as moonstone) having or emitting a milky or bluish iridescence
- advancements — Plural form of advancement.
- advantageous — If something is advantageous to you, it is likely to benefit you.
- adventitious — added or appearing accidentally or unexpectedly
- adventurists — Plural form of adventurist.
- aerodonetics — the study of soaring or gliding flight, esp the study of gliders
- aesthesiogen — a substance that stimulates or produces sensation
- aesthetician — a student of aesthetics
- affamishment — (obsolete) starvation.
- affectations — Plural form of affectation.
- affectedness — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
- affiliations — Plural form of affiliation.
- affirmations — Plural form of affirmation.
- aforestation — Alternative spelling of afforestation.
- afrocentrism — centered on Africa or on African-derived cultures, as those of Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti: Afrocentric art.
- afterburners — Plural form of afterburner.
- against time — in an effort to complete something in a limited period
- agglutinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agglutinate.
- aggravations — Plural form of aggravation.
- aggregations — Plural form of aggregation.
- 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.
- agroindustry — an activity combining agriculture and industry
- air ministry — (in England) the department of government administering all civil and military matters concerning aviation.
- aircraftsman — a person holding the rank of noncommissioned officer in the RAF.
- airtightness — the quality of being airtight
- alan shugart — Alan F. Shugart
- alant starch — inulin.
- allman style — indent style
- almightiness — The state or quality of being almighty.
- almond paste — ground almond mixture
- alpine-style — of or in an ascent (esp in high mountains like the Himalayas) in which the climbers carry all their equipment with them in a single ascent from base to summit
- altercations — Plural form of altercation.
- alternations — Plural form of alternation.
- alternatives — a choice limited to one of two or more possibilities, as of things, propositions, or courses of action, the selection of which precludes any other possibility: You have the alternative of riding or walking.
- altitudinous — pertaining to altitude or height
- alton towers — a 19th-century Gothic Revival mansion with extensive gardens in NW central England, in Staffordshire: site of a large amusement park
- ambartsumian — Viktor A(mazaspovich). 1908–96, Armenian astrophysicist, renowned for his description of radio sources as explosions in the core of galaxies
- ambiposition — (linguistics) An adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.
- ambisinister — clumsy or unskillful with both hands.
- ambitionless — without ambition, unambitious
- amentiferous — bearing aments
- amniotic sac — membrane around embryo or foetus
- 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
- amortisation — Alternative spelling of amortization.
- amphetamines — Plural form of amphetamine.
- an iron fist — a cruel and unyielding attitude or approach
- anabaptistic — relating to Anabaptists
- anacatharsis — severe vomiting
- anachronists — Plural form of anachronist.