12-letter words containing s, a, n, o
- affirmations — Plural form of affirmation.
- aforestation — Alternative spelling of afforestation.
- afrocentrism — centered on Africa or on African-derived cultures, as those of Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti: Afrocentric art.
- agamogenesis — asexual reproduction, such as fission or parthenogenesis
- 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.
- agrobusiness — the businesses collectively associated with the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products.
- agroindustry — an activity combining agriculture and industry
- air division — an organizational unit smaller than an air force, usually composed of a headquarters and two or more wings
- alalcomeneus — the first man: he reared Athena and reconciled Zeus and Hera.
- alexanderson — Ernst F. W [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1878–1975, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- alfonso xiii — 1886–1941, king of Spain (1886–1931), who was forced to abdicate on the establishment of the republic in 1931
- all kinds of — You can use all kinds of to emphasize that there are a great number and variety of particular things or people.
- almond paste — ground almond mixture
- alongside of — at the side of; beside; adjoining
- alpha leonis — Regulus1
- altercations — Plural form of altercation.
- alternations — Plural form of alternation.
- 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
- ambiposition — (linguistics) An adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.
- ambitionless — without ambition, unambitious
- amelogenesis — the production of enamel by ameloblasts
- amentiferous — bearing aments
- aminophenols — Plural form of aminophenol.
- amnioscopies — Plural form of amnioscopy.
- amniotic sac — membrane around embryo or foetus
- 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
- amortisation — Alternative spelling of amortization.
- amourousness — Rare spelling of amorousness.
- an iron fist — a cruel and unyielding attitude or approach
- anachronisms — Plural form of anachronism.
- anachronists — Plural form of anachronist.
- anacrogynous — having the female sex organs arising from any cell below the apex of the stem, thereby not terminating its growth, as certain liverworts.
- anaerobiosis — life in the absence of oxygen
- 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 ^^^.”.
- analyzations — Plural form of analyzation.
- anamorphoses — Plural form of anamorphosis.
- anamorphosis — an image or drawing distorted in such a way that it becomes recognizable only when viewed in a specified manner or through a special device
- anaphrodisia — diminished sexual desire.
- anaplasmosis — a disease of cattle caused by a blood-infecting protozoan parasite, Anaplasma marginale, transmitted by bloodsucking flies and ticks.
- anapophysial — of or relating to an anapophysis.
- anastomosing — Present participle of anastomose.
- anchorperson — the primary reporter on a news television broadcast
- and so forth — and so on; and other such things; et cetera
- androgenesis — a type of reproduction in insects and plants involving the development of an embryo that contains only paternal chromosomes
- androscoggin — a river flowing from NE New Hampshire through SW Maine into the Kennebec River. 171 miles (275 km) long.
- androsterone — an androgenic steroid hormone produced in the testes. Formula: C19H30O2