12-letter words containing t, i
- 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 ministry — (in England) the department of government administering all civil and military matters concerning aviation.
- 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.
- airbrush out — to remove evidence of (someone or something from photographs, books, or history)
- aircraftsman — a person holding the rank of noncommissioned officer in the RAF.
- 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
- alberti bass — a reiterated broken-chord figure used as an accompaniment, especially in 18th-century rococo keyboard music.
- alcaptonuria — Alternative spelling of alkaptonuria.
- alcoholicity — the strength of an alcoholic liquor
- aldolization — the conversion of an aldehyde to aldol
- algesiometer — an instrument for determining the sensitiveness of the skin to a painful stimulus.
- alias dictus — otherwise called; alias.
- alienability — (uncountable) The quality of being alienable.
- alimentation — sustenance; support
- alimentative — nourishing; nutritive.
- alkali metal — any of the monovalent metals lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, and francium, belonging to group 1A of the periodic table. They are all very reactive and electropositive
- alkalimeters — Plural form of alkalimeter.
- alkalization — Alkalinization.
- alkaptonuria — excessive excretion of homogentisic acid in the urine, caused by a hereditary abnormality of the metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine.
- all the time — If something happens or is done all the time, it happens or is done continually.
- allegoristic — writing or using allegory; interpreting in an allegorical sense.
- allelopathic — relating to or characterized by allelopathy
- alliteration — Alliteration is the use in speech or writing of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound.
- alliterative — Alliterative means relating to or connected with alliteration.
- alloantibody — an antibody that reacts with an antigen from a genetically different individual of the same species.
- allotropical — (chemistry, rare) Of or pertaining to an element that exhibits allotropy.
- allowability — The state of being allowable; legitimacy; permissibleness.
- almightiness — The state or quality of being almighty.
- alpha boötis — Arcturus
- alphabetical — Alphabetical means arranged according to the normal order of the letters in the alphabet.
- alphabetised — (British) Arranged in alphabetical order.
- alphabetiser — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of alphabetizer.
- alphabetized — (North America) Arranged in alphabetical order.
- alphabetizer — to put or arrange in alphabetical order.
- alphabetizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alphabetize.
- alphitomancy — the use of barley meal as a means of divination.
- alpine-style — of or in an ascent (esp in high mountains like the Himalayas) in which the climbers carry all their equipment with them in a single ascent from base to summit
- alstroemeria — any plant of the tuberous perennial liliaceous genus Alstroemeria, originally S American, grown for their brightly coloured orchid-like flowers
- altaltissimo — the apex of something
- alterability — capable of being altered.
- altercations — Plural form of altercation.
- alternations — Plural form of alternation.
- alternatives — a choice limited to one of two or more possibilities, as of things, propositions, or courses of action, the selection of which precludes any other possibility: You have the alternative of riding or walking.
- altiloquence — Pompous language; lofty speech.
- altitudinous — pertaining to altitude or height
- alto-relievo — high relief