11-letter words containing ai
- aircraftmen — Plural form of aircraftman.
- airdropping — Present participle of airdrop.
- airlessness — The state or condition of being poorly ventilated; lacking good air circulation, having stale air.
- airport bus — a public bus that takes passengers to and from the airport, usually connecting the city centre and (at a large airport) the different terminals
- airport tax — Airport tax is a tax that airline passengers have to pay in order to use an airport.
- airsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the aircraft in which one is traveling.
- airwaybills — Plural form of airwaybill.
- all-terrain — designed to travel on all types of ground, including rough ground
- altair 8800 — (computer) An Intel 8080-based machine made by MITS. The Altair was the first popular microcomputer kit. It appeared on the cover of the January 1975 "Popular Electronics" magazine with an article (probably) by Leslie Solomon. Leslie Solomon was an editor at Popular Electronics who had a knack for spotting kits that would interest people and make them buy the magazine. The Altair 8800 was one such. The MITS guys took the prototype Altair to New York to show Solomon, but couldn't get it to work after the flight. Nonetheless, he liked it, and it appeared on the cover as "The first minicomputer in a kit." Solomon's blessing was important enough that some MITS competitors named their product the "SOL" to gain his favour. Some wags suggested SOL was actually an abbreviation for the condition in which kit purchasers would find themselves. The original Altair BASIC ran in less than 4K of RAM because a "loaded" Altair had 4K memory. Since there was no operating system on the Altair, Altair BASIC included what we now think of as BIOS. It was distributed on paper tape that could be read on a Teletype. Later versions supported the 8K Altair and the 16K diskette-based Altair (demonstrating that, even in the 1970s, Microsoft was committed to software bloat). Altair BASIC was ported to the Motorola 6800 for the Altair 680 machine, and to other 8080-based microcomputers produced by MITS' competitors.
- amethocaine — The drug tetracaine.
- ammishaddai — the father of Ahiezer, the Danite. Num. 1:12; 2:25.
- antijudaism — Alternative form of anti-Judaism.
- apollinaire — Guillaume (ɡijom), real name Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki. 1880–1918, French poet, novelist, and dramatist, regarded as a precursor of surrealism; author of Alcoöls (1913) and Calligrammes (1918)
- apotropaism — the use of ritual or magic to ward off evil or bad luck
- appertained — Past participle of appertain.
- appraisable — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
- aquaintance — Misspelling of acquaintance.
- archaically — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- archaicisms — Plural form of archaicism.
- archtraitor — A chief or transcendent traitor.
- archvillain — A supreme villain; the most evil or powerful villain.
- arraignment — Arraignment is when someone is brought before a court of law to answer a particular charge.
- ascertained — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- attainments — Plural form of attainment.
- attaintment — conviction of a crime
- attic faith — unshakable faith
- audit trail — a record of all the transactions or data entries that a person or firm has carried out over a specific period
- azerbaijani — a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan
- back stairs — stairs at the back of a house, as for use by servants.
- bail bandit — a person who either commits a crime while on bail or who jumps bail and fails to appear in court
- bailiffship — the office of a bailiff
- báinín wool — white woollen thread
- baitcasting — (angling) A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure).
- balmain bug — a flattish edible Australian shellfish, Ibacus peronii, similar to the Moreton Bay bug
- bargain bin — a container in a shop from which customers can buy goods that may be old or imperfect at greatly reduced prices
- bargain for — If you have not bargained for or bargained on something that happens, you did not expect it to happen and so feel surprised or worried by it.
- bargainable — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- bass strait — a channel between mainland Australia and Tasmania, linking the Indian Ocean and the Tasman Sea
- beach chair — A beach chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Beach chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
- bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
- beauharnais — Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined
- beaver tail — a flat oval doughnut served fried and sugared
- beetlebrain — a person of severely limited intelligence
- belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
- billionaire — A billionaire is an extremely rich person who has money or property worth at least a thousand million pounds or dollars.
- birdbrained — a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person.
- bordelaises — a brown sauce flavored with red wine and shallots and garnished with poached marrow and parsley.
- border raid — an incursion by attackers into a neighbouring country
- bourbonnais — a town in NE Illinois.
- brain candy — something that is entertaining or enjoyable but lacks depth or significance