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11-letter words containing an

  • advance man — an agent of a political candidate or other public figure who travels in advance of the candidate to organize publicity, arrange meetings, and make security checks
  • advance-fee — money paid in advance, as for goods or services, to a commission agent or the like.
  • advancement — Advancement is progress in your job or in your social position.
  • advantaging — Present participle of advantage.
  • adzharistan — an autonomous region in SW Georgia, bordered by Turkey and the Black Sea. 1120 sq. mi. (2900 sq. km). Capital: Batumi.
  • adzuki bean — the brown edible seed of a leguminous plant, Phaseolus angularis,, widely eaten in China and Japan
  • aequo animo — with an even mind; with composure.
  • aerosol can — a container for substances stored as aerosols, such as paint, polish, or insecticide
  • aesculapian — of or relating to Aesculapius or to the art of medicine
  • affordances — Plural form of affordance.
  • affranchise — to release from servitude or an obligation
  • affranchize — (possibly nonstandard) alternative spelling of affranchise.
  • afghanistan — a republic in central Asia: became independent in 1919; occupied by Soviet troops, 1979–89; controlled by mujaheddin forces from 1992 until 1996 when Taliban forces seized power; in the US-led 'war on terror' (2001) the Taliban were overthrown although their insurgency continues; generally arid and mountainous, with the Hindu Kush range rising over 7500 m (25 000 ft) and fertile valleys of the Amu Darya, Helmand, and Kabul Rivers. Official languages: Pashto and Dari (Persian), Tajik also widely spoken. Religion: Muslim. Currency: afghani. Capital: Kabul. Pop: 31 108 077 (2013 est). Area: 657 500 sq km (250 000 sq miles)
  • aga khan iv — Prince Karim (kəˈriːm). born 1936, spiritual leader of the Ismaili sect of Muslims from 1957
  • agglutinant — sticking together; adhesive
  • aggrandised — Simple past tense and past participle of aggrandise.
  • aggrandized — Simple past tense and past participle of aggrandize.
  • aggrandizer — One who makes great or aggrandizes.
  • aggrandizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aggrandize.
  • aggrievance — Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
  • agranulosis — (rare) agranulocytosis.
  • agrarianism — a movement for the equal division of landed property and for the promotion of agricultural interests.
  • ailanthuses — Plural form of ailanthus.
  • air cleaner — a filter that prevents dust and other particles from entering the air-intake of an internal-combustion engine
  • air command — the Canadian air force
  • aircraftman — a serviceman of the most junior rank in the RAF
  • alan turing — (person)   Alan M. Turing, 1912-06-22/3? - 1954-06-07. A British mathematician, inventor of the Turing Machine. Turing also proposed the Turing test. Turing's work was fundamental in the theoretical foundations of computer science. Turing was a student and fellow of King's College Cambridge and was a graduate student at Princeton University from 1936 to 1938. While at Princeton Turing published "On Computable Numbers", a paper in which he conceived an abstract machine, now called a Turing Machine. Turing returned to England in 1938 and during World War II, he worked in the British Foreign Office. He masterminded operations at Bletchley Park, UK which were highly successful in cracking the Nazis "Enigma" codes during World War II. Some of his early advances in computer design were inspired by the need to perform many repetitive symbolic manipulations quickly. Before the building of the Colossus computer this work was done by a roomful of women. In 1945 he joined the National Physical Laboratory in London and worked on the design and construction of a large computer, named Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). In 1949 Turing became deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester where the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, the worlds largest memory computer, was being built. He also worked on theories of artificial intelligence, and on the application of mathematical theory to biological forms. In 1952 he published the first part of his theoretical study of morphogenesis, the development of pattern and form in living organisms. Turing was gay, and died rather young under mysterious circumstances. He was arrested for violation of British homosexuality statutes in 1952. He died of potassium cyanide poisoning while conducting electrolysis experiments. An inquest concluded that it was self-administered but it is now thought by some to have been an accident. There is an excellent biography of Turing by Andrew Hodges, subtitled "The Enigma of Intelligence" and a play based on it called "Breaking the Code". There was also a popular summary of his work in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach".
  • alcyonarian — any of various colonial anthozoans of the subclass Alcyonaria with eight tentacles and other body parts in branches or segments of eight
  • aldermanity — the body of aldermen
  • alessandria — a town in NW Italy, in Piedmont. Pop: 85 438 (2001)
  • aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
  • alexander i — c. 1080–1124, king of Scotland (1107–24), son of Malcolm III
  • alexander v — 1340?–1410, Cretan ecclesiastic: pope 1409–10.
  • alexandrian — of or relating to Alexander the Great
  • alexandrina — a female given name, form of Alexandra.
  • alexandrine — a line of verse having six iambic feet, usually with a caesura after the third foot
  • alexandrite — a green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone
  • alkanethiol — any compound containing an alkyl group joined to a mercapto group, as methyl mercaptan or methanethiol, CH 3 SH.
  • allantoidal — (anatomy) Of or relating to the allantois.
  • allantoides — Plural form of allantois.
  • allegiances — the loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign.
  • alloantigen — an antigen present in some but not all individuals of the same species, as those in different human blood groups.
  • allophylian — (of languages, especially those of Europe and Asia) neither Indo-European nor Semitic.
  • allowancing — Present participle of allowance.
  • altar stand — a lectern for a missal, especially one on an altar.
  • amaranthine — of a dark reddish-purple colour
  • amelanchier — A tree or shrub of a genus that includes the juneberries.
  • americanism — An Americanism is an expression that is typical of people living in the United States of America.
  • americanist — a person who studies some aspect of America, such as its history or languages
  • americanize — to make or become American in outlook, attitudes, etc
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