12-letter words containing s, n, a, c
- afrocentrism — centered on Africa or on African-derived cultures, as those of Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti: Afrocentric art.
- agency nurse — a nurse employed by an agency, rather than by a hospital
- 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.
- aircraftsman — a person holding the rank of noncommissioned officer in the RAF.
- alalcomeneus — the first man: he reared Athena and reconciled Zeus and Hera.
- alant starch — inulin.
- alice's fern — Hartford fern.
- alkalescence — the process of developing alkaline qualities
- alkalescency — the tendency to develop alkaline qualities
- altercations — Plural form of altercation.
- 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.
- amnioscopies — Plural form of amnioscopy.
- amniotic sac — membrane around embryo or foetus
- anabaptistic — relating to Anabaptists
- anacatharsis — severe vomiting
- anachronisms — Plural form of anachronism.
- anachronists — Plural form of anachronist.
- anacrogynous — having the female sex organs arising from any cell below the apex of the stem, thereby not terminating its growth, as certain liverworts.
- anaesthetics — the science, study, and practice of anaesthesia and its application
- anapaestical — belonging to the form of poetry which uses a reversed dactyl consisting of two short syllables followed by a long one
- anastigmatic — (of a lens or optical device) not astigmatic
- anchorperson — the primary reporter on a news television broadcast
- androscoggin — a river flowing from NE New Hampshire through SW Maine into the Kennebec River. 171 miles (275 km) long.
- anecdotalism — an inclination to relate anecdotes
- anelasticity — the property of a substance which has a disproportionate relationship between stress and strain
- anemochorous — (of a fruit, seed, or spore) adapted for dispersion by wind.
- aneurysmatic — (medicine) Describing a blood vessel that has an aneurysm; aneurysmal.
- angiocarpous — being or having fruit contained in a vessel such as a shell
- angiosarcoma — a rare, malignant tumour which grows rapidly in the blood vessels
- 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
- 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
- annihilistic — Relating to annihilation.
- annunciators — Plural form of annunciator.
- anorthoclase — a variety of microcline, rich in sodium and sometimes having a play of color: sometimes considered a variety of orthoclase.
- anorthositic — resembling or consisting of anorthosite
- ansate cross — ankh
- 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
- antechambers — Plural form of antechamber.
- anthocarpous — resembling or pertaining to an anthocarp
- anthocyanins — Plural form of anthocyanin.
- 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-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.