11-letter words containing an
- anatomizing — Present participle of anatomize.
- anaximander — 611–547 bc, Greek philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who believed the first principle of the world to be the Infinite
- ancestorial — of, belonging to, or relating to ancestors
- ancestrally — Pertaining to ancestry.
- ancho chili — a dried poblano pepper, reddish-brown in color, used esp. in Mexican cooking
- anchor baby — a term used to refer to a baby born to an undocumented mother in a country where the baby becomes a citizen at birth, especially when the birth is planned to facilitate eventual legal residency for the family.
- anchor ball — a day shape consisting of a black ball not less than 2 feet (0.6 meters) in diameter, displayed in the fore rigging of a vessel at anchor.
- anchor bell — a bell rung in foggy weather by a vessel at anchor.
- anchor bolt — any of several kinds of bolts inserted and fixed in masonry as a hold for timbers, shelves, etc.
- anchor buoy — a buoy used to indicate the location of an underwater anchor.
- anchor deck — a small forecastle housing the machinery for operating the anchors of a ship.
- anchor ring — a ring made from an iron bar of circular cross-section
- anchor shot — grapple shot.
- anchor span — (on a suspension or cantilever bridge) a span from an anchorage to the nearest pier or tower.
- anchorwoman — The anchorwoman on a television or radio programme, especially a news programme, is the woman who presents it.
- anchorwomen — Plural form of anchorwoman.
- ancientness — The state or quality of being ancient.
- ancillaries — subordinate; subsidiary.
- and circuit — a logic circuit having two or more input wires and one output wire that has a high-voltage output signal if and only if all input signals are at a high voltage simultaneously: used extensively as a basic circuit in computers
- and company — You can say and company after mentioning a person's name, to refer also to the people who are associated with that person.
- andaman sea — part of the Bay of Bengal, between the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Malay Peninsula
- andikithira — Antikythera.
- andre watts — André [ahn-drey] /ˈɑn dreɪ/ (Show IPA), born 1946, U.S. concert pianist, born in Germany.
- androconium — a scale on the forewing of certain male butterflies from which an odor attractive to females is emitted.
- androgenise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of androgenize.
- androgenize — Treat with or expose to male hormones, typically resulting in the production of male sexual characteristics.
- androgenous — producing only male offspring
- androgynous — In biology, an androgynous person, animal, or plant has both male and female sexual characteristics.
- androphilic — Sexually attracted to men.
- androphobia — an abnormal fear of men; an aversion toward the male sex.
- androphobic — Exhibiting androphobia; fearful of men.
- androsphinx — a sphinx having the head of a man
- anecdotally — in an anecdotal manner
- anecdotical — relating to anecdotes
- anemochores — Plural form of anemochore.
- anemographs — Plural form of anemograph.
- anemography — the technique of recording wind measurements
- anemometers — Plural form of anemometer.
- anemonefish — Any of the clownfish, principally in the Amphiprion genus.
- anemophobia — an abnormal fear of draughts or windy weather
- anencephaly — congenital malformation of the skull with absence of all or part of the brain
- anesthesias — Medicine/Medical. general or local insensibility, as to pain and other sensation, induced by certain interventions or drugs to permit the performance of surgery or other painful procedures.
- anesthesize — Misspelling of anesthetize.
- anesthetics — Plural form of anesthetic.
- anesthetist — An anesthetist is a nurse or other person who gives an anaesthetic to a patient.
- anesthetize — to cause anesthesia in; give an anesthetic to
- anfractuous — characterized by twists and turns; convoluted
- angel falls — a waterfall in SE Venezuela, on the Caroní River; regarded as the highest in the world. Height: 979 m (3212 ft)
- angel light — (in an English Perpendicular window) a compartment, approximately triangular, formed by the arch of the window, an arch of a lower tier of tracery, and a mullion of an upper tier of tracery.
- angel shark — any of several sharks constituting the family Squatinidae, such as Squatina squatina, that have very large flattened pectoral fins and occur in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans