12-letter words containing ace
- dilacerating — Present participle of dilacerate.
- dilaceration — the act of dilacerating.
- dipsacaceous — belonging to the Dipsacaceae, the teasel family of plants.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- displaceable — Capable of being displaced.
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- double-faced — practicing duplicity; hypocritical.
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- droseraceous — of or relating to the genus of plants Drosera
- emplacements — Plural form of emplacement.
- ethylacetate — Alternative spelling of ethyl acetate.
- exacerbating — Present participle of exacerbate.
- exacerbation — An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease).
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- face flannel — washcloth
- face to face — with the fronts or faces toward each other, especially when close together.
- face-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each face of each unit cell as well as at the corners
- face-to-face — with the fronts or faces toward each other, especially when close together.
- facebook.com — (web) One of the most popular social networking websites.
- facelessness — The state or condition of being faceless.
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- furfuraceous — of or containing bran.
- furnace room — a room containing a furnace or an enclosed chamber for producing heat, often on the bottom floor of the building that it heats
- gallinaceous — pertaining to or resembling the domestic fowls.
- garage space — space available for housing a motor vehicle, usually within a purpose-built building
- geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.
- get anyplace — to have any success
- glacé cherry — a crystallized or candied cherry, used in cookery and cocktail-making
- grace hopper — (person) US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), née Grace Brewster Murray. Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the compiler with the A-0 in 1952. She also developed the first commercial high-level language, which eventually evolved into COBOL. She worked on the Mark I computer with Howard Aiken and with BINAC in 1949. She is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since. See also the entries debug and bug. Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper, after her.
- grace period — a period of time after a payment becomes due, as of a loan or life-insurance premium, before one is subject to penalties or late charges or before the loan or policy is canceled.
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
- harness race — a trotting or pacing race for Standardbred horses harnessed to sulkies.
- hatchet face — a thin face with sharp features.
- hatchet-face — a face with narrow dimensions and sharp features
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- indoleacetic — as in indoleacetic acid, a naturally-occurring plant growth hormone
- ineffaceable — not effaceable or eradicable; indelible: an ineffaceable impression.
- ineffaceably — not effaceable or eradicable; indelible: an ineffaceable impression.
- interjacency — The quality of being interjacent.
- king's peace — (in early medieval England) the protection secured by the king for particular people or places
- lace-curtain — characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class: Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.
- lead acetate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, Pb(C 2 H 3 O 2) 2 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly as a mordant in dyeing and printing textiles and as a drier in paints and varnishes.
- linear space — vector space.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.