11-letter words containing s, a, n
- anglicanism — Anglicanism is the beliefs and practices of the Church of England, and of the churches related to it.
- anglo-asian — An Anglo-Asian person is someone of Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi origin who has grown up in Britain.
- anglo-irish — the English language as spoken in Ireland
- anglo-saxon — The Anglo-Saxon period is the period of English history from the fifth century A.D. to the Norman Conquest in 1066.
- anglophones — Plural form of anglophone.
- anglosphere — a group of English-speaking countries that share common roots in British culture and history, usually the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada
- anguishment — Anguish.
- animalcules — Plural form of animalcule.
- animalistic — If you describe a person or their behaviour as animalistic, you mean that they do not try to hide or control their basic feelings and physical needs.
- animateness — the condition of being alive or living
- animosities — Plural form of animosity.
- aniseikonia — a condition caused by a defect in the lens of the eye in which the images produced in the two eyes differ in size or shape
- anisocarpic — (of a flower) having a lower number of carpels than of other floral parts.
- anisocercal — (of fish) having unequal tail-fin lobes
- anisodactyl — (of the feet of passerine birds) having the first toe directed backwards and the other three toes directed forwards
- anisogamete — heterogamete
- anisogamous — reproducing by the fusion of dissimilar gametes or individuals, usually differing in size.
- anisomerous — (of flowers) having floral whorls that differ in the number of their parts
- anisometric — not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts or unequal measurements
- anisopteran — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Anisoptera, comprising the dragonflies.
- anisotropic — not isotropic; having different physical properties in different directions
- ankle strap — a strap attached at the back of a shoe that goes round the ankle
- anne sexton — Anne (Harvey) 1928–74, U.S. poet.
- annexations — Plural form of annexation.
- annihilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of annihilate.
- anniversary — An anniversary is a date which is remembered or celebrated because a special event happened on that date in a previous year.
- annonaceous — belonging to the plant family Annonaceae.
- annotations — Plural form of annotation.
- annulations — Plural form of annulation.
- annunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of annunciate.
- anomalistic — tending to be anomalous
- anomalously — deviating from or inconsistent with the common order, form, or rule; irregular; abnormal: Advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe.
- anonymising — Present participle of anonymise.
- anonymities — Plural form of anonymity.
- anonymizers — Plural form of anonymizer.
- anonymosity — (rare) The state of being anonymous.
- anonymously — without any name acknowledged, as that of author, contributor, or the like: an anonymous letter to the editor; an anonymous donation.
- anorthosite — a coarse-grained plutonic igneous rock consisting almost entirely of plagioclase feldspar
- ansi z39.50 — (networking, standard) Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol Specification for Library Applications, officially known as ANSI/NISO Z39.50-1992, and ANSI/NISO Z39.50-1995. This standard, used by WAIS, specifies an OSI application layer service to allow an application on one computer to query a database on another. Z39.50 is used in libraries and for searching some databases on the Internet. The US Library of Congress is the official maintanence agency for Z39.50.
- anson jones — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- answer back — If someone, especially a child, answers back, they speak rudely to you when you speak to them.
- answerbacks — Plural form of answerback.
- answerphone — An answerphone is a device which you connect to your telephone and which records telephone calls while you are out.
- antagonised — Simple past tense and past participle of antagonise.
- antagonises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of antagonise.
- antagonisms — Plural form of antagonism.
- antagonists — Plural form of antagonist.
- antagonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of antagonize.
- antecedents — ancestry
- antepenults — Plural form of antepenult.