11-letter words containing n, o, a, t, e
- anisopteran — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Anisoptera, comprising the dragonflies.
- ankle joint — the joint made by the two leg bones (the tibia and the fibula) and the talus
- anne sexton — Anne (Harvey) 1928–74, U.S. poet.
- annexations — Plural form of annexation.
- anonymities — Plural form of anonymity.
- anorthosite — a coarse-grained plutonic igneous rock consisting almost entirely of plagioclase feldspar
- antagonised — Simple past tense and past participle of antagonise.
- antagonises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of antagonise.
- antagonized — Simple past tense and past participle of antagonize.
- antagonizer — a person who antagonizes people, or provokes hostility: The leader was an antagonizer of the peasantry. Compare antagonist.
- antagonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of antagonize.
- ante-mortem — (esp in legal or medical contexts) before death
- anteflexion — a bending forward of an organ, especially of the body of the uterus.
- antenniform — shaped like an antenna
- anteorbital — in front of the orbit of the eye
- anteportico — a lesser portico preceding a main portico.
- anteriority — situated before or at the front of; fore (opposed to posterior).
- anterograde — moving forwards, in the normal direction of flow
- anteversion — abnormal forward tilting of a bodily organ, esp the uterus
- antherozoid — one of many small male gametes produced in an antheridium
- anthochlore — a yellow pigment found in flowers
- anthologies — Plural form of anthology.
- anthologise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of anthologize.
- anthologize — to compile or put into an anthology
- 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
- anti-choice — opposed to the legal right to obtain an abortion; pro-life
- anti-reform — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- anti-soviet — opposed to anything characteristic of or relating to the former Soviet Union and its government
- anticathode — the target electrode for the stream of electrons in a vacuum tube, esp an X-ray tube
- antichoicer — someone who opposes the granting of pregnant women the choice to have an abortion
- anticyclone — An anticyclone is an area of high atmospheric pressure which causes settled weather conditions and, in summer, clear skies and high temperatures.
- antiforeign — opposed to or discriminating against foreigners or foreign countries
- antiheroine — a central female character in a novel, play, film, etc, who lacks the traditional heroic virtues
- antiheroism — (literature) The quality of being an antihero.
- antihyperon — the antiparticle of the hyperon
- antileprosy — acting against leprosy
- antileptons — Plural form of antilepton.
- antimension — a consecrated linen or silk cloth, kept on an altar, to which is sewn a linen or silk bag containing relics of saints.
- antimoniate — (inorganic chemistry) The anion of pentavalent antimony Sb(OH)4- or any salt containing this anion. It is most commonly encountered as a complex in the drug meglumine antimoniate.
- antineutron — the antiparticle of a neutron; a particle having the same mass as the neutron but a magnetic moment of opposite sign
- antinucleon — an antiproton or an antineutron
- antiobesity — reducing or controlling obesity
- antiphonies — Plural form of antiphony.
- antipoverty — acting against poverty
- antistrophe — the second of two movements made by a chorus during the performance of a choral ode
- antiviolent — Acting against or opposing violence.
- antler moth — a European noctuid moth, Cerapteryx (or Charaeas) graminis, that has white antler-like markings on the forewings and produces larvae that periodically cause great damage to pastures and grasslands
- anucleolate — lacking a nucleolus or nucleoli.
- apicodental — articulated with the apex of the tongue near the upper front teeth, as ( (θ) ; t h) ) and (; ð) ; th) )
- apoferritin — a homogeneous protein, found especially in the intestinal mucosa and the liver, that interacts with a ferric hydroxide-ferric phosphate complex to form ferritin.