12-letter words containing s, i, n
- ashurbanipal — died ?626 bc, king of Assyria (?668–?626): son of Esarhaddon. He built the magnificent palace and library at Nineveh
- asking price — The asking price of something is the price which the person selling it says that they want for it, although they may accept less.
- asparaginase — an enzyme used in treating leukaemia
- asphyxiating — to produce asphyxia in.
- asphyxiation — Asphyxiation is a lack of oxygen in blood, which causes suffocation.
- aspirational — If you describe someone as aspirational, you mean that they have strong hopes of moving to a higher social status.
- aspiringness — the condition of being aspiring
- assassin bug — any long-legged predatory, often blood-sucking, insect of the heteropterous family Reduviidae
- assassinated — Simple past tense and past participle of assassinate.
- assassinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of assassinate.
- assassinator — a person who assassinates
- assertations — Plural form of assertation.
- asseverating — Present participle of asseverate.
- asseveration — the act of asseverating.
- assibilation — (linguistics) A sound change resulting in a sibilant consonant, commonly the final phase of palatalization.
- assignations — Plural form of assignation.
- assimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- assimilation — an assimilating or being assimilated
- assimulating — Present participle of assimulate.
- assimulation — Obsolete form of assimilation.
- associations — Plural form of association.
- assuefaction — the condition of being or becoming familiar with or used to something
- assurbanipal — Ashurbanipal
- astonishable — (obsolete) Astonishing.
- astonishment — Astonishment is a feeling of great surprise.
- astoundingly — capable of overwhelming with amazement; stunningly surprising.
- astringently — In the manner of an astringent.
- astrodynamic — Pertaining to astrodynamics.
- astronautics — the science and technology of space flight
- astronomical — If you describe an amount, especially the cost of something as astronomical, you are emphasizing that it is very large indeed.
- astroturfing — a PR tactic used in politics and advertising in which actors are paid to display overt and apparently spontaneous grassroots support for a particular product, policy, or event
- asynchronies — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
- asynchronism — a lack of synchronism; occurrence at different times
- at intervals — If something happens at intervals, it happens several times with gaps or pauses in between.
- atorvastatin — a statin, (C 33 H 34 FN 2 O 5) 2 ·Ca 3 H 2 O, used in the prevention and treatment of heart disease.
- attitudinous — (informal) Having a bold and possibly unfriendly attitude; sassy.
- attorneyship — The office or profession of an attorney.
- attributions — Plural form of attribution.
- auction sale — an instance of items being sold by auction
- auction site — a commercial website on which items are sold by internet auction
- auscultating — Present participle of auscultate.
- auscultation — the diagnostic technique in medicine of listening to the various internal sounds made by the body, usually with the aid of a stethoscope
- austenitized — to form austenite in (a ferrous alloy) by heating.
- austin friar — one of the Hermits of St. Augustine.
- australasian — Australasian means belonging or relating to Australasia or to its people.
- austronesian — of or relating to Austronesia, its peoples, or their languages
- autoanalysis — Psychoanalysis. self-analysis.
- autohypnosis — the process or result of self-induced hypnosis
- aversiveness — the condition of being characterized by aversion
- avitaminosis — any disease caused by a vitamin deficiency in the diet