12-letter words containing ann
- fanning mill — a machine for winnowing grain by the action of riddles and sieves and an air blast.
- flannel cake — griddlecake; pancake.
- flannel-leaf — the common mullein, Verbascum thapsus.
- flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
- flannelmouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- granny dress — a loose-fitting, ankle-length dress, usually with long sleeves and a high collar and sometimes having flounces, ruffles, or lace trimming.
- granny smith — a variety of crisp, green-skinned apple, for eating raw or for cooking.
- granny woman — midwife (def 1).
- haji-ioannou — Sir Stelios. born 1967, British businessman, born in Greece; founder (1995) and chairman (until 2002) of the low-cost airline company Easyjet
- hardy annual — a plant that can withstand freezing temperatures and which completes its life cycle within a year
- haussmannize — to rebuild in a similar fashion as Haussmann rebuilt Paris
- henry tanner — Henry Ossawa [os-uh-wuh] /ˈɒs ə wə/ (Show IPA), 1859–1937, U.S. painter, in France after 1891.
- hofmannsthal — Hugo von [hoo-goh fuh n] /ˈhu goʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1874–1929, Austrian poet, playwright, and librettist.
- hootenannies — Plural form of hootenanny.
- hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
- ill-mannered — having bad or poor manners; impolite; discourteous; rude.
- interchannel — occurring or existing between two or more channels
- jeanne d'arc — Jeanne [zhahn] /ʒɑn/ (Show IPA), Joan of Arc.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- life annuity — any annuity that is contingent upon the survival of the annuitant or annuitants, especially an annuity that terminates with the death of a single annuitant.
- light cannon — a particularly powerful torch, spotlight, or searchlight
- loose cannon — a person whose reckless behavior endangers the efforts or welfare of others.
- magnus annus — the Great Year: a cycle of years, usually a thousand, that begins with a Golden Age, steadily deteriorates, and ends with a universal catastrophe, either a fire or a flood.
- manna lichen — any of several crustose lichens of the genus Lecanora, especially L. esculenta, found in the African and Arabian deserts, used for food by humans and other animals.
- mannerliness — Politeness, good manners.
- microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- multichannel — Employing or possessing many television or communications channels.
- nannofossils — Plural form of nannofossil.
- nitromannite — mannitol hexanitrate.
- open channel — An open channel is a type of flow in which one surface is free (= not restricted by anything).
- overmannered — excessively mannered
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- panning shot — pan3 (def 6).
- park savanna — savanna grassland scattered with trees
- pet scanning — the action or process of using a PET scanner to obtain an image.
- pollyannaish — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
- pollyannaism — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
- pre-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- rappahannock — a river flowing SE from N Virginia into the Chesapeake Bay: Civil War battle 1863. 185 miles (300 km) long.
- reannexation — the act or process of reannexing something
- ring spanner — tool for turning screws
- schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
- self-tanning — cosmetic substance applied to the skin to simulate a suntan
- semiannually — occurring, done, or published every half year or twice a year; semiyearly.
- stannic acid — any of the series of acids usually occurring as amorphous powders and varying in composition from H 2 SnO 3 (alpha-stannic acid) to H 4 SnO 4 .
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- superannuate — to allow to retire from service or office on a pension because of age or infirmity.
- transannular — of or relating to tautomerism in cyclic compounds that is characterized by the migration of an atom or group from one position in the ring to another.