12-letter words containing o, n, a, t
- action grant — funds awarded by the federal government on a competitive basis to cities that submit plans for urban development and are able to show that such plans have the cooperation and endorsement of private investors.
- action group — a group of people who come together to fight for a particular cause or to carry out a particular task
- action movie — film focussed on action sequences
- action point — one of a series of notes drawn up after a meeting stating what tasks need to be carried out and who will do each one
- activization — to make active; activate.
- adaptational — of or relating to adaptation
- additionally — You use additionally to introduce something extra such as an extra fact or reason.
- adenectomies — Plural form of adenectomy.
- adiponitrile — a colorless liquid, C 6 H 8 N 2 , used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of nylon.
- adjournments — Plural form of adjournment.
- adjudication — the act of adjudicating
- admonishment — to caution, advise, or counsel against something.
- admonitorily — in an admonitory manner
- adolescently — in an adolescent manner
- adulteration — an adulterating or being adulterated
- advantageous — If something is advantageous to you, it is likely to benefit you.
- adventitious — added or appearing accidentally or unexpectedly
- aeolian tone — the musical tone produced by the passage of a current of air over a stretched string, etc, as in an aeolian harp
- aerification — an act of combining with air.
- aerodonetics — the study of soaring or gliding flight, esp the study of gliders
- aeromagnetic — of magnetism in the atmosphere
- aeronautical — Aeronautical means involving or relating to the design and construction of aeroplanes.
- aeroplankton — the tiny plants, animals, and bacteria living and floating in the air
- aesthesiogen — a substance that stimulates or produces sensation
- affectations — Plural form of affectation.
- affectionado — Misspelling of aficionado.
- affectionate — If you are affectionate, you show your love or fondness for another person in the way that you behave towards them.
- affiliations — Plural form of affiliation.
- affirmations — Plural form of affirmation.
- affrontingly — in an affronting manner
- aforestation — Alternative spelling of afforestation.
- afrocentrism — centered on Africa or on African-derived cultures, as those of Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti: Afrocentric art.
- agamogenetic — Of or pertaining to agamogenesis.
- agathodaemon — A benevolent spirit as opposed to a cacodemon (an evil daemon).
- agathodaimon — a spirit of good fortune, associated with the serpent
- agent orange — a highly poisonous herbicide used as a spray for defoliation and crop destruction, esp by US forces during the Vietnam War
- agglutinogen — an antigen that reacts with or stimulates the formation of a specific agglutinin
- 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.
- 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.
- alcaptonuria — Alternative spelling of alkaptonuria.
- aldolization — the conversion of an aldehyde to aldol
- alimentation — sustenance; support
- 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.