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12-letter words containing s, i, n

  • angelologist — a person who studies angelology
  • angiocarpous — being or having fruit contained in a vessel such as a shell
  • angiogenesis — the induction of blood-vessel growth, often in association with a particular organ or tissue, or with a tumour
  • angiopathies — Plural form of angiopathy.
  • angiosarcoma — a rare, malignant tumour which grows rapidly in the blood vessels
  • angiostomous — having a narrow opening
  • angiotensins — Plural form of angiotensin.
  • angst-ridden — characterized by a feeling of dread or anxiety
  • angularities — Plural form of angularity.
  • animalculism — the theory explaining psychological and pathological phenomena through animalcules
  • animalculist — a person who subscribes to the theory of animalculism
  • animalculous — a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer.
  • animatronics — a branch of film and theatre technology that combines traditional puppetry techniques with electronics to create lifelike animated effects
  • anisaldehyde — a colorless, oily, aromatic liquid, the para form of C 8 H 8 O 2 , having a vanillalike odor: used chiefly in the manufacture of cosmetics and perfume, and as an intermediate in organic synthesis.
  • anisocytosis — (medicine) Significant size variation of blood cells.
  • anisomorphic — differing in the semantic scope of terms referring to the real world: for instance, English and Russian are anisomorphic with regard to colour terms, English treating light blue and navy blue as shades of one colour but Russian treating these two shades as unrelated
  • anisothermal — (thermodynamics) Of or pertaining to a system that is not in thermal equilibrium, that does not have a single fixed temperature.
  • anisotropies — Plural form of anisotropy.
  • anisotropism — the state of being anisotropic
  • annie besant — Annie (Wood) 1847–1933, English theosophist.
  • annihilistic — Relating to annihilation.
  • annoyingness — causing annoyance; irritatingly bothersome: annoying delays.
  • annunciators — Plural form of annunciator.
  • anorthositic — resembling or consisting of anorthosite
  • answer print — a motion-picture film print composed of picture and sound, used for evaluation.
  • antagonising — Present participle of antagonise.
  • antagonistic — If a person is antagonistic to someone or something, they show hatred or dislike towards them.
  • antanaclasis — a form of speech in which a key word is repeated and used in a different, and sometimes contrary, way for a play on words, as in The craft of a politician is to appear before the public without craft.
  • antasthmatic — relieving the symptoms of asthma
  • antependiums — Plural form of antependium.
  • anteposition — the position opposite a given part of a plant
  • anteriorness — The state or quality of being anterior.
  • anthocyanins — Plural form of anthocyanin.
  • anthologised — Simple past tense and past participle of anthologise.
  • anthologiser — Alternative spelling of anthologizer.
  • anthologizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anthologize.
  • anthophilous — (esp of insects) frequenting flowers
  • anti-british — opposed to anything characteristic of or relating to Britain
  • anti-elitist — (of a person or class of persons) considered superior by others or by themselves, as in intellect, talent, power, wealth, or position in society: elitist country clubbers who have theirs and don't care about anybody else.
  • anti-fascism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
  • anti-judaism — the monotheistic religion of the Jews, having its ethical, ceremonial, and legal foundation in the precepts of the Old Testament and in the teachings and commentaries of the rabbis as found chiefly in the Talmud. Compare Conservative Jew, Orthodox Jew, Reform Jew.
  • anti-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
  • anti-science — a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
  • anti-semitic — Someone or something that is anti-Semitic is hostile to or prejudiced against Jewish people.
  • anti-smoking — opposed to or promoting the discontinuance of the smoking of tobacco: an antismoking campaign launched by a health agency.
  • anti-strophe — the part of an ancient Greek choral ode answering a previous strophe, sung by the chorus when returning from left to right.
  • anti-zionist — a person who is opposed to Zionism
  • antialiasing — a technique for smoothing out jagged lines in graphical computer output.
  • antibacchius — a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, of which the first two are long and the third is short
  • antibacklash — relating to the prevention of a violent backward reaction or movement
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