11-letter words containing s, e, r, i, a
- aggrandised — Simple past tense and past participle of aggrandise.
- aggrandizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aggrandize.
- aggressions — the action of a state in violating by force the rights of another state, particularly its territorial rights; an unprovoked offensive, attack, invasion, or the like: The army is prepared to stop any foreign aggression.
- air express — the rapid transportation of goods and documents by aircraft
- air hostess — An air hostess is a woman whose job is to look after the passengers in an aircraft.
- air passage — a space occupied or traversed by air.
- air service — the services performed by an airline, as flights between various destinations to transport passengers, freight, and mail.
- air shuttle — a shuttle service operated by aircraft, usually covering short routes with frequent flights
- air sprayer — a pneumatic sprayer.
- air steward — a steward on an airliner
- air vesicle — a large air-filled intercellular space in some aquatic plants
- air-express — to send or transport by air express: Your package will be air-expressed and should reach its destination tomorrow.
- air-shipped — to send or ship via aircraft: to air-ship machine parts overseas.
- air-sprayed — sprayed by means of compressed air
- airlessness — The state or condition of being poorly ventilated; lacking good air circulation, having stale air.
- airsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the aircraft in which one is traveling.
- alabastrine — a finely granular variety of gypsum, often white and translucent, used for ornamental objects or work, such as lamp bases, figurines, etc.
- alessandria — a town in NW Italy, in Piedmont. Pop: 85 438 (2001)
- algesimeter — an instrument for determining the sensitiveness of the skin to a painful stimulus.
- alkyd resin — any synthetic resin made from a dicarboxylic acid, such as phthalic acid, and diols or triols: used in paints and adhesives
- alleviators — Plural form of alleviator.
- allyl resin — any of several thermosetting synthetic resins made by polymerizing esters of allyl alcohol with a dibasic acid. They are used as adhesives
- almoravides — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa from 1056 to 1147.
- altarpieces — Plural form of altarpiece.
- alterations — adjustments
- alzheimer's — a common form of dementia, believed to be caused by changes in the brain, usually beginning in late middle age, characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability, and progressive loss of mental ability.
- amaryllises — Plural form of amaryllis.
- amateurship — the nature of an amateur
- ambiversion — a condition or character trait that includes elements of both introversion and extroversion
- ameliorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ameliorate.
- americanism — An Americanism is an expression that is typical of people living in the United States of America.
- americanist — a person who studies some aspect of America, such as its history or languages
- amino resin — any thermosetting synthetic resin formed by copolymerization of amines or amides with aldehydes. Amino resins are used as adhesives and as coatings for paper and textiles
- amphigories — Plural form of amphigory.
- amphimacers — Plural form of amphimacer.
- anagnorises — Plural form of anagnorisis.
- anaphoresis — the movement of suspended charged particles towards the anode in an electric field
- anaplerosis — the filling up of a scar, wound, etc which has decayed or been destroyed
- ancestorial — of, belonging to, or relating to ancestors
- ancillaries — subordinate; subsidiary.
- androgenise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of androgenize.
- anisocercal — (of fish) having unequal tail-fin lobes
- 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.
- anniversary — An anniversary is a date which is remembered or celebrated because a special event happened on that date in a previous year.
- anonymizers — Plural form of anonymizer.
- anorthosite — a coarse-grained plutonic igneous rock consisting almost entirely of plagioclase feldspar
- anteversion — abnormal forward tilting of a bodily organ, esp the uterus
- anthesteria — one of the ancient Athenian festivals composing the Dionysia; a spring festival celebrating flowers and new wine.