12-letter words containing s, a, n
- 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.
- agribusiness — Agribusiness is the various businesses that produce, sell, and distribute farm products, especially on a large scale.
- 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
- air ministry — (in England) the department of government administering all civil and military matters concerning aviation.
- aircraftsman — a person holding the rank of noncommissioned officer in the RAF.
- airtightness — the quality of being airtight
- alalcomeneus — the first man: he reared Athena and reconciled Zeus and Hera.
- alan shugart — Alan F. Shugart
- alant starch — inulin.
- alarm signal — a signal warning of danger
- alaska range — a mountain range in S central Alaska. Highest peak: Mount McKinley, 6194 m (20 320 ft)
- alexanderson — Ernst F. W [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1878–1975, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- alexandrines — Plural form of alexandrine.
- alexandrinus — the Greek uncial codex, dating from the early 5th century a.d., originally containing the complete text of the Greek Old and New Testaments.
- alfonso xiii — 1886–1941, king of Spain (1886–1931), who was forced to abdicate on the establishment of the republic in 1931
- aliasing bug — stale pointer bug
- alice's fern — Hartford fern.
- alieni juris — under the control of another, as a lunatic or infant.
- alkalescence — the process of developing alkaline qualities
- alkalescency — the tendency to develop alkaline qualities
- all kinds of — You can use all kinds of to emphasize that there are a great number and variety of particular things or people.
- allman style — indent style
- alluringness — The state or quality of being alluring.
- allusiveness — having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
- almightiness — The state or quality of being almighty.
- almond paste — ground almond mixture
- alongside of — at the side of; beside; adjoining
- alpha leonis — Regulus1
- alpine-style — of or in an ascent (esp in high mountains like the Himalayas) in which the climbers carry all their equipment with them in a single ascent from base to summit
- 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.
- 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
- ambartsumian — Viktor A(mazaspovich). 1908–96, Armenian astrophysicist, renowned for his description of radio sources as explosions in the core of galaxies
- ambiposition — (linguistics) An adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.
- ambisinister — clumsy or unskillful with both hands.
- ambitionless — without ambition, unambitious
- amelogenesis — the production of enamel by ameloblasts
- amenableness — The state or quality of being amenable.
- 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.
- amicableness — The state or quality of being amicable.
- aminophenols — Plural form of aminophenol.