12-letter words containing o, n, s, l
- antiroyalist — opposed to the monarchy
- antisepalous — facing the sepals or calyx leaf
- antisociable — Antisocial.
- antisocially — In an antisocial manner.
- anton sailer — Anton [ahn-tohn] /ˈɑn toʊn/ (Show IPA), ("Toni") 1935–2009, Austrian skier.
- appellations — Plural form of appellation.
- applications — Plural form of application.
- appositional — the act of placing together or bringing into proximity; juxtaposition.
- ariel sharon — Ariel, 1928–2014, Israeli military and political leader; prime minister 2001–06.
- aristotelian — of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy
- arms control — an agreement between two or more countries to reduce the number of weapons owned, with the aim of preventing war
- arts council — an organization that provides funding for a variety of arts activities
- aspirational — If you describe someone as aspirational, you mean that they have strong hopes of moving to a higher social status.
- assibilation — (linguistics) A sound change resulting in a sibilant consonant, commonly the final phase of palatalization.
- assimilation — an assimilating or being assimilated
- assimulation — Obsolete form of assimilation.
- astonishable — (obsolete) Astonishing.
- astoundingly — capable of overwhelming with amazement; stunningly surprising.
- astronomical — If you describe an amount, especially the cost of something as astronomical, you are emphasizing that it is very large indeed.
- at long last — finally, after difficulty, delay, or irritation
- auction sale — an instance of items being sold by auction
- auscultation — the diagnostic technique in medicine of listening to the various internal sounds made by the body, usually with the aid of a stethoscope
- autoanalysis — Psychoanalysis. self-analysis.
- autogenously — In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.
- autonomously — Government. self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only. pertaining to an autonomy, or a self-governing community.
- avowableness — the quality or condition of being avowable
- backboneless — lacking backbone; cowardly
- backsolution — The process or result of backsolving.
- bacon-slicer — a machine for cutting bacon into slices
- balletomanes — Plural form of balletomane.
- balloon sail — a large light bellying sail used in light winds
- balloon seat — (on some 18th-century chairs) a seat having an outline resembling that of a bell.
- bank swallow — a swallow, Riparia riparia, of the Northern Hemisphere, that nests in tunnels dug in sand or clay banks.
- barn swallow — the US and Canadian name for the common swallow, Hirundo rustica
- base bullion — smelted lead containing impurities, as gold, silver, or zinc, that are later removed.
- battlefronts — Plural form of battlefront.
- battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
- be no slouch — If you say that someone is no slouch at a particular activity, you mean that they are skilful at it or are willing to work hard at it.
- beaconsfield — a town in SE England, in Buckinghamshire. Pop: 12 292 (2001)
- beauty salon — A beauty salon is the same as a beauty parlour.
- bed of nails — a situation or position of extreme difficulty
- bell housing — A bell housing is a bell-shaped extension of an engine crankcase, that contains the flywheel and the clutch.
- biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
- blanket toss — a game in which a person is repeatedly tossed into the air and caught on an open blanket by a group of people who hold the blanket at its edges and stretch and relax it for each toss and catch.
- blastulation — the process of blastula formation
- blind-emboss — blind-stamp.
- block island — an island off the coast of and a part of Rhode Island, at the E entrance to Long Island Sound.
- block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
- blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)