12-letter words containing r, e, s, a
- allegoristic — writing or using allegory; interpreting in an allegorical sense.
- allegrissimo — (music) A direction in musical notation indicating that the musical piece should be played very fast and lively.
- allelomorphs — Plural form of allelomorph.
- allosauruses — Plural form of allosaurus.
- alluringness — The state or quality of being alluring.
- alphabetiser — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of alphabetizer.
- alphaviruses — Plural form of alphavirus.
- alstroemeria — any plant of the tuberous perennial liliaceous genus Alstroemeria, originally S American, grown for their brightly coloured orchid-like flowers
- altar server — server (def 5).
- 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.
- alton towers — a 19th-century Gothic Revival mansion with extensive gardens in NW central England, in Staffordshire: site of a large amusement park
- amateurishly — In an amateurish or nonprofessional manner.
- ambassadress — a woman ambassador
- ambidextrous — Someone who is ambidextrous can use both their right hand and their left hand equally skilfully.
- ambisextrous — Informal. sexually attracted to both sexes; bisexual. used by or suitable for either sex; unisex: ambisextrous hair styles.
- ambisinister — clumsy or unskillful with both hands.
- ambulatories — Plural form of ambulatory.
- amentiferous — bearing aments
- americanisms — a custom, trait, belief, etc., peculiar to the United States of America or its citizens.
- americanness — of or relating to the United States of America or its inhabitants: an American citizen.
- 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
- amourousness — Rare spelling of amorousness.
- ampere's law — the law that a magnetic field induced by an electric current is, at any point, directly proportional to the product of the current intensity and the length of the current conductor, inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point and the conductor, and perpendicular to the plane joining the point and the conductor.
- anaerobiosis — life in the absence of oxygen
- anamorphoses — Plural form of anamorphosis.
- anchorperson — the primary reporter on a news television broadcast
- androgenesis — a type of reproduction in insects and plants involving the development of an embryo that contains only paternal chromosomes
- androsterone — an androgenic steroid hormone produced in the testes. Formula: C19H30O2
- anemochorous — (of a fruit, seed, or spore) adapted for dispersion by wind.
- anemotropism — orientation in response to a current of air.
- aneurysmatic — (medicine) Describing a blood vessel that has an aneurysm; aneurysmal.
- angel's hair — Also called capelli d’angelo. Italian Cookery. a type of very thin pasta.
- angst-ridden — characterized by a feeling of dread or anxiety
- angularities — Plural form of angularity.
- anisothermal — (thermodynamics) Of or pertaining to a system that is not in thermal equilibrium, that does not have a single fixed temperature.
- anisotropies — Plural form of anisotropy.
- anklewarmers — Plural form of anklewarmer.
- anorthoclase — a variety of microcline, rich in sodium and sometimes having a play of color: sometimes considered a variety of orthoclase.
- anotherguess — of a different type or kind; different
- ansate cross — ankh
- answer print — a motion-picture film print composed of picture and sound, used for evaluation.
- antechambers — Plural form of antechamber.
- anteriorness — The state or quality of being anterior.
- anthologiser — Alternative spelling of anthologizer.
- anti-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- anti-strophe — the part of an ancient Greek choral ode answering a previous strophe, sung by the chorus when returning from left to right.
- anticonsumer — opposed to consumerism
- antiestrogen — any of several major female sex hormones produced primarily by the ovarian follicles of female mammals, capable of inducing estrus, developing and maintaining secondary female sex characteristics, and preparing the uterus for the reception of a fertilized egg: used, especially in synthetic form, as a component of oral contraceptives, in certain cancer treatments, and in other therapies.