12-letter words containing o, n, e
- alton towers — a 19th-century Gothic Revival mansion with extensive gardens in NW central England, in Staffordshire: site of a large amusement park
- amazon river — a river in N South America, flowing E from the Peruvian Andes through N Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean: the largest river in the world in volume of water carried. 3900 miles (6280 km) long.
- ambitionless — without ambition, unambitious
- ameliorating — Present participle of ameliorate.
- amelioration — the act or an instance of ameliorating or the state of being ameliorated
- amelogenesis — the production of enamel by ameloblasts
- amenhotep iv — died 1357? b.c, king of Egypt 1375?–1357?: reformer of ancient Egyptian religion (son of Amenhotep III).
- amenorrhoeic — absence of the menses.
- amentiferous — bearing aments
- amethopterin — (now rare) Methotrexate.
- amfebutamone — (former name) The drug bupropion.
- aminobenzene — aniline (def 1).
- aminobenzoic — as in aminobenzoic acid
- aminomethane — (organic compound, often in combination) methylamine (or a derivative of it).
- aminophenols — Plural form of aminophenol.
- amiphenazole — A respiratory stimulant traditionally used as an antidote for barbiturate or opiate overdose, usually in combination with bemegride.
- amnioscopies — Plural form of amnioscopy.
- 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
- amortizement — a sloping top on a buttress, pillar, etc.
- amourousness — Rare spelling of amorousness.
- amphotericin — an amphoteric antibiotic produced by the bacterium Streptomyces nodosus and used in the treatment of fungal infections.
- an open book — a person or subject that is thoroughly understood
- an open mind — If you have an open mind, you avoid forming an opinion or making a decision until you know all the facts.
- anaerobiosis — life in the absence of oxygen
- anaerobiotic — anaerobic
- analogy test — a reasoning test in which the subject is required to supply the missing term in a relationship of the form “A is to B as Y is to ^^^.”.
- anamorphoses — Plural form of anamorphosis.
- anapodeictic — (rare, rhetoric) not able to be shown or proved by argument; undemonstrable.
- anchorperson — the primary reporter on a news television broadcast
- anchovy pear — a Jamaican tree, Grias cauliflora, bearing edible fruits that taste like the mango: family Lecythidaceae
- andouillette — a French sausage made from pig intestines, smaller than an andouille
- androcentric — having or regarding man or the male sex as central or primary
- androgenesis — a type of reproduction in insects and plants involving the development of an embryo that contains only paternal chromosomes
- androgenetic — related to androgenesis
- androgenized — Simple past tense and past participle of androgenize.
- androsterone — an androgenic steroid hormone produced in the testes. Formula: C19H30O2
- anecdotalism — an inclination to relate anecdotes
- anemochorous — (of a fruit, seed, or spore) adapted for dispersion by wind.
- anemone fish — any of various damselfishes of the genus Amphiprion, such as A. percula (clown anemone fish), that usually live closely associated with sea anemones
- anemophilous — (of flowering plants such as grasses) pollinated by the wind
- anemotropism — orientation in response to a current of air.
- angelo patri — Angelo [an-juh-loh] /ˈæn dʒəˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1877–1965, U.S. educator and writer, born in Italy.
- angelologist — a person who studies angelology
- angiogenesis — the induction of blood-vessel growth, often in association with a particular organ or tissue, or with a tumour
- angiopathies — Plural form of angiopathy.
- angiotensins — Plural form of angiotensin.
- angle of dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- angle of lag — the phase difference, expressed in degrees, by which one sinusoidal function moves behind a second having the same period, as alternating current moving behind the alternating voltage.
- angle of yaw — the acute angle between the longitudinal axis of an aircraft or spacecraft and a given reference direction, as viewed from above.
- anglo-celtic — of or relating to an inhabitant of Australia who was or whose ancestors were born in the British Isles