11-letter words containing s, a, n
- appositions — Plural form of apposition.
- apprentices — Plural form of apprentice.
- apron stage — a stage that projects into the auditorium so that the audience sit on three sides of it
- aquafitness — a keep-fit regime in which exercises are performed standing up in a swimming pool
- aquamarines — Plural form of aquamarine.
- aquanautics — the study or practice of undersea travel
- aquatintist — a person who creates aquatints
- arab spring — The Arab Spring is a period of time in and around 2011 to 2012 during which people in the Middle East and Africa tried to achieve democratic reforms.
- arabian sea — the NW part of the Indian Ocean, between Arabia and India
- arabinoside — a glycoside yielding arabinose when hydrolysed
- arborescent — having the shape or characteristics of a tree
- archaeornis — an extinct primitive Jurassic bird, formerly placed in the genus Archaeornis but now thought to be a species of archaeopteryx
- archdeacons — Plural form of archdeacon.
- archenemies — Plural form of archenemy.
- archnemesis — A chief nemesis.
- arduousness — requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: an arduous undertaking.
- arena stage — the central acting area found in a theatre-in-the-round
- arenicolous — growing or living in sand or sandy places
- arkansawyer — an Arkansan.
- arkhangelsk — seaport in NW Russia, at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River: pop. 407,000
- armageddons — Plural form of armageddon.
- armentieres — a town in N France: site of battles in both World Wars. Pop: 25 273 (1999)
- arminianism — a liberal Christian movement based on the doctrines of Jacobus Arminius, that stressed free will as opposed to Calvinistic predestination
- arms-length — not closely or intimately connected or associated; distant; remote: an arm's-length relationship.
- aron kodesh — Holy Ark.
- arrangments — Plural form of arrangement.
- arrestation — the slowing or stopping of the development or progress of something
- arrestingly — attracting or capable of attracting attention or interest; striking: an arresting smile.
- ars antiqua — the style of composition characteristic of the 13th century, especially in France.
- arse around — If you say that someone is arsing around or arsing about, you mean that they are behaving in a silly, irritating way instead of getting something done.
- arsenicated — Treated with arsenate or other arsenic compound.
- arsonphobia — Pyrophobia.
- art student — a person studying art
- artemisinin — a drug obtained from the plant genus Artemisia and used to treat malaria
- artisanship — the occupation or product of a craftsperson or artisan
- artlessness — The state or quality of being artless.
- aru islands — a group of islands in Indonesia, in the SW Moluccas. Area: about 8500 sq km (3300 sq miles)
- arylamines' — any of a group of amines in which one or more of the hydrogen atoms of ammonia are replaced by aromatic groups.
- as anything — You use as anything after an adjective to emphasize a quality that someone has.
- as concerns — in regard to; with reference to; about
- as the next — If you say that you do something or experience something as much as the next person, you mean that you are no different from anyone else in the respect mentioned.
- ascendantly — in an ascendant manner
- ascendingly — moving upward; rising.
- ascensional — (astronomy) Relating to ascension.
- ascertained — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- aschelminth — in some systems of classification, any of a phylum (Aschelminthes) of wormlike animals, including rotifers, gastrotrichs, gordian worms, and nematodes: these animals are usually considered to be in separate phyla
- asciibonics — (chat) (From ASCII and Ebonics) A style of text communication in English which is most common on talk systems such as irc. Its notable characteristics are: Typing all in lowercase (and occasionally all in uppercase). Copious use of abbreviations of the sort "u" for "you" "1" for "one" (and therefore "some1" for "someone", "ne1" for "anyone"), "2" for "to", "r" for "are", etc. A general lack of punctuation, except for strings of question marks and exclamation marks. Common use of the idiom "m or f?", meant to elicit a statement of the listener's gender. Typical extended discourse in ASCIIbonics: "hey wasup ne1 want 2 cyber?" "m or f?" ASCIIbonics is similar to the way B1FF talked, although B1FF used more punctuation (lots more), and used all uppercase, rather than all lowercase. What's more, B1FF was only interested in warez, and so never asked "m or f?". It has been widely observed that some of the purest examples of ASCIIbonics come from non-native speakers of English. The phenomenon of ASCIIbonics predates by several years the use of the word "ASCIIbonics", as the word could only have been coined in or after late 1996, when "Ebonics" was first used in the US media to denote the US English dialects known in the linguistic literature as "Black Vernacular English".
- ascriptions — Plural form of ascription.
- ash-shaytan — (in Muslim usage) Satan; the devil.
- ashamedness — the condition of feeling ashamed