12-letter words containing t, a, e
- affectedness — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
- affectionado — Misspelling of aficionado.
- affectionate — If you are affectionate, you show your love or fondness for another person in the way that you behave towards them.
- affirmatives — Plural form of affirmative.
- afflictively — in a distressing, troublesome, or afflictive manner
- afforestable — having the capacity to be turned into forest
- affrightedly — in a frightened or alarmed manner
- affrightment — the act of causing fear or alarm
- aforestation — Alternative spelling of afforestation.
- aforethought — premeditated (esp in the phrase malice aforethought)
- african time — unpunctuality
- afrocentrism — centered on Africa or on African-derived cultures, as those of Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti: Afrocentric art.
- after a sort — to some extent
- after-dinner — immediately following dinner: an after-dinner speech.
- after-effect — The after-effects of an event, experience, or substance are the conditions which result from it.
- after-school — After-school activities are those that are organized for children in the afternoon or evening after they have finished school.
- afterburners — Plural form of afterburner.
- afterburning — a process in which additional fuel is ignited in the exhaust gases of a jet engine to produce additional thrust
- aftereffects — Plural form of aftereffect.
- afterthought — If you do or say something as an afterthought, you do or say it after something else as an addition, perhaps without careful thought.
- against time — in an effort to complete something in a limited period
- agalmatolite — a soft, greenish, greyish or yellowish mineral, thought to be a variety of pinite, known particularly for its use by the Chinese for carving
- agamogenetic — Of or pertaining to agamogenesis.
- agathodaemon — A benevolent spirit as opposed to a cacodemon (an evil daemon).
- agent orange — a highly poisonous herbicide used as a spray for defoliation and crop destruction, esp by US forces during the Vietnam War
- agglomerated — gathered together into a cluster or mass.
- agglomerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agglomerate.
- agglomerator — gathered together into a cluster or mass.
- agglutinable — Able to be agglutinated; that readily undergoes agglutination.
- agglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of agglutinate.
- agglutinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agglutinate.
- agglutinogen — an antigen that reacts with or stimulates the formation of a specific agglutinin
- aggravatedly — In an aggravated manner.
- aggregations — Plural form of aggregation.
- aggressivity — the state or quality of being aggressive
- aggrievement — the state of being aggrieved
- agranulocyte — a white blood cell without granules in its cytoplasm
- agreeability — an agreeable disposition
- agroforester — a person who carries out agroforestry
- agroforestry — a method of farming integrating herbaceous and tree crops
- aids-related — caused by or associated with the AIDS virus
- aiguillettes — Plural form of aiguillette.
- air disaster — a very serious air crash in which in a lot of people are killed or injured
- air mattress — an inflatable mattress or pad, as of plastic or rubber, used for camping, as an extra bed, etc.
- air terminal — An air terminal is a building in which passengers wait before they get on to an aeroplane.
- air-breather — an aircraft, missile, or submarine engine that requires air from the atmosphere for the combustion of its fuel.
- airfreighted — Simple past tense and past participle of airfreight.
- airport code — a three-letter abbreviation of the names of the world's major airports, used especially as an identifier for routing baggage.
- airtightness — the quality of being airtight
- alarm system — a set of electronic devices that trigger an alarm