11-letter words containing act
- hyperactive — unusually or abnormally active: a company's hyperactive growth; the child's hyperactive imagination.
- hyperdactyl — having an excessive number of fingers or toes
- impact area — site of explosion
- impact zone — (in surfing) the dangerous position on a wave that is just about to separate and collapse; the falling lip of a wave.
- impactfully — In an impactful fashion.
- impractical — not practical or useful.
- in practice — from a practical point of view
- inactivated — Simple past tense and past participle of inactivate.
- inactivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inactivate.
- inexactness — The characteristic or quality of being inexact; a lack of precision, accuracy, or certainty.
- infractions — Plural form of infraction.
- interactant — a person or thing that interacts.
- interacting — to act one upon another.
- interaction — reciprocal action, effect, or influence.
- interactive — acting one upon or with the other.
- intractable — not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition.
- intractably — not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition.
- jactitation — Law. a false boast or claim that causes injury to another.
- kinkaid act — an act of Congress (1904) providing for the granting of 640-acre homesteads to settlers in western Nebraska.
- knee action — Automotive. a form of suspension for the front wheels of a vehicle permitting each wheel to rise and fall independently of the other.
- labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
- lactalbumin — the simple protein of milk, obtained from whey, used in the preparation of certain foods and in adhesives and varnishes.
- lactational — Of or pertaining to lactation.
- lactic acid — a colorless or yellowish, syrupy, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 6 O 3 , produced during muscle contraction as a product of anaerobic glucose metabolism, abundant in sour milk, prepared usually by fermentation of cornstarch, molasses, potatoes, etc., or synthesized: used chiefly in dyeing and textile printing, as a flavoring agent in food, and in medicine.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lactifluous — full or flowing with milk
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- lactoflavin — riboflavin.
- lactometers — Plural form of lactometer.
- leptodactyl — leptodactylous
- live action — of or relating to movies, videos, and the like, that feature real performers, as distinguished from animation: A new live-action version of the classic animated film will be released later this year.
- live-action — of or relating to movies, videos, and the like, that feature real performers, as distinguished from animation: A new live-action version of the classic animated film will be released later this year.
- load factor — the amount or weight of cargo, number of passengers, etc., that an aircraft, vehicle, or vessel can carry.
- long-acting — sustained-release.
- macrodactyl — one of the group of wading birds, Macrodactyli
- madefaction — the process of making wet
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- malefactory — villainous
- malpractice — Law. failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows.
- manufactory — a factory.
- manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- mass action — Mass action is the effect when continuously adding reactants (= substances that are used in a reaction) to a reaction causes it to generate products continuously.
- monodactyly — having only one digit or claw.
- morrill act — an act of Congress (1862) granting each state 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of land for each member it had in Congress, 90 percent of the gross proceeds of which were to be used for the endowment and maintenance of colleges and universities teaching agricultural and mechanical arts and other subjects.
- movie actor — film star
- multifactor — Of or pertaining to more than one factor.
- munich pact — the pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany on September 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipled appeasement of an aggressive nation.
- neuroactive — affecting or interacting directly with the nervous system
- non-contact — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.