12-letter words containing n, t
- 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.
- agranulocyte — a white blood cell without granules in its cytoplasm
- agroindustry — an activity combining agriculture and industry
- aiming point — the point at which a gun or bombsight is aimed in order to strike a desired target, often a point in advance of or behind the actual target.
- air ministry — (in England) the department of government administering all civil and military matters concerning aviation.
- air terminal — An air terminal is a building in which passengers wait before they get on to an aeroplane.
- 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.
- albert canal — ship canal in Belgium, from Liège to Antwerp: 81 mi (131 km)
- alcaptonuria — Alternative spelling of alkaptonuria.
- aldolization — the conversion of an aldehyde to aldol
- alexandretta — Iskenderun
- alienability — (uncountable) The quality of being alienable.
- alimentation — sustenance; support
- alimentative — nourishing; nutritive.
- alkalization — Alkalinization.
- alkaptonuria — excessive excretion of homogentisic acid in the urine, caused by a hereditary abnormality of the metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine.
- alliteration — Alliteration is the use in speech or writing of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound.
- allman style — indent style
- alloantibody — an antibody that reacts with an antigen from a genetically different individual of the same species.
- almightiness — The state or quality of being almighty.
- almond paste — ground almond mixture
- alphitomancy — the use of barley meal as a means of divination.
- 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.
- altiloquence — Pompous language; lofty speech.
- 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
- amalgamating — Present participle of amalgamate.
- amalgamation — the action or process of amalgamating
- ambartsumian — Viktor A(mazaspovich). 1908–96, Armenian astrophysicist, renowned for his description of radio sources as explosions in the core of galaxies
- amber nectar — beer
- ambiposition — (linguistics) An adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.
- ambisinister — clumsy or unskillful with both hands.
- ambitendency — ambivalence, especially when acted out; a tendency to contradictory behavior arising from conflicting impulses.
- ambitionless — without ambition, unambitious
- ambivalently — in an ambivalent manner
- ameliorating — Present participle of ameliorate.
- amelioration — the act or an instance of ameliorating or the state of being ameliorated
- amenhotep iv — died 1357? b.c, king of Egypt 1375?–1357?: reformer of ancient Egyptian religion (son of Amenhotep III).
- amentiferous — bearing aments
- amethopterin — (now rare) Methotrexate.
- amfebutamone — (former name) The drug bupropion.
- aminobutyric — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to any of several isomeric univalent radicals in which a hydrogen atom of a butyric radical is replaced by an amino group.
- aminomethane — (organic compound, often in combination) methylamine (or a derivative of it).