11-letter words containing s, i, a
- 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 akimbo — with hands on hips and elbows projecting outwards
- arquebusier — harquebusier.
- 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.
- arrhythmias — Plural form of arrhythmia.
- ars antiqua — the style of composition characteristic of the 13th century, especially in France.
- ars poetica — the art of poetry
- arse licker — a person who curries favour
- arsenicated — Treated with arsenate or other arsenic compound.
- arsonphobia — Pyrophobia.
- art history — study of art through the ages
- artemisinin — a drug obtained from the plant genus Artemisia and used to treat malaria
- arthralgias — Plural form of arthralgia.
- arthritides — (medicine) Plural form of arthritis.
- arthrodesis — the fusion of bones in a joint through surgery which causes immobility of the joint
- articulates — Express (an idea or feeling) fluently and coherently.
- artilleries — Plural form of artillery.
- artillerist — a person who uses or is a member of the artillery
- artisanship — the occupation or product of a craftsperson or artisan
- 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.
- asbestiform — having the look or structure of asbestos
- ascendingly — moving upward; rising.
- ascensional — (astronomy) Relating to ascension.
- ascertained — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- ascetically — a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
- 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".
- ascititious — having been added to from something inessential or separate
- ascriptions — Plural form of ascription.
- aseptically — in a non-putrefying manner
- ashen light — a faint glow visible on the unlit side of the planet Venus in its crescent phase.
- ashlar line — a horizontal line, indicated at a building site with a taut string, that corresponds to the exterior surface plane of a masonry wall.
- asperations — Plural form of asperation.
- aspergation — the action of sprinkling, suffusing or irrigating with water
- aspergillum — a brush or perforated container for sprinkling holy water
- aspergillus — any ascomycetous fungus of the genus Aspergillus, having chains of conidia attached like bristles to a club-shaped stalk: family Aspergillaceae
- aspersorium — a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
- aspheterise — to deny the right of private property
- aspheterism — the teaching that all property should be in common ownership and no individual should benefit from personal possession
- aspheterize — to observe or engage in aspheterism
- asphyxiants — Plural form of asphyxiant.
- asphyxiated — Simple past tense and past participle of asphyxiate.
- asphyxiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of asphyxiate.
- asphyxiator — to produce asphyxia in.
- aspidistras — Plural form of aspidistra.
- aspirations — a strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition: intellectual aspirations.