11-letter words containing en
- adrenalitis — (pathology) Inflammation of one or both adrenal glands, leading to an insufficiency of cortisol and/or aldosterone.
- adrenalized — tense or highly charged
- adultescent — an adult who is still actively interested in youth culture
- advancement — Advancement is progress in your job or in your social position.
- adventitial — of or relating to the adventitia
- adventurers — Plural form of adventurer.
- adventuress — a woman who seeks adventure, esp one who seeks success or money through daring exploits
- adventuring — the act of doing adventurous things or having adventures
- adventurism — Adventurism is a willingness to take risks, especially in order to obtain an unfair advantage in politics or business.
- adventurist — If you describe someone or something as adventurist, you disapprove of them because they are willing to take risks in order to gain an unfair advantage in business or politics.
- adventurous — Someone who is adventurous is willing to take risks and to try new methods. Something that is adventurous involves new things or ideas.
- adverseness — The state or quality of being adverse, or opposed to.
- advertently — attentive; heedful.
- aeneolithic — Chalcolithic.
- aero engine — an engine for powering an aircraft
- affableness — The state or quality of being affable.
- affluential — an affluent person who does not display his or her wealth in the form of material possessions
- afforcement — an increase in force or strength
- afrocentric — centered on, emphasizing, or showing the influence of African or, sometimes, African-American history and culture
- agency shop — a contract arrangement between an employer and the union representing the majority of employees, which requires those who do not wish to be members to pay the union a fee equivalent to union dues
- aguardiente — any inferior brandy or similar spirit, esp from Spain, Portugal, or South America
- air current — a mass of air moving from one area to another
- aircraftmen — Plural form of aircraftman.
- albendazole — An antiparasitic anthelmintic used especially against the larvae of tapeworms.
- albumenized — Simple past tense and past participle of albumenize.
- alcalescent — Alternative spelling of alkalescent.
- alcaligenes — any of several rod-shaped aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Alcaligenes, found in the intestinal tract of humans and other vertebrates and in dairy products.
- aldopentose — a monosaccharide with five carbon atoms
- alendronate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of alendronic acid.
- alfven wave — a generally transverse magnetohydrodynamic wave that is propagated in a plasma
- alienatedly — In an alienated way.
- alimentally — So as to serve for nourishment or food.
- alkalescent — developing alkaline qualities
- all ends up — totally or completely
- all-expense — including all necessary or usual expenses, as the full cost of a trip, tour, or the like: a two-week all-expense tour of Mexico.
- allen screw — a screw that has a hexagonal cross section in the head, designed to be turned using an Allen key
- alloantigen — an antigen present in some but not all individuals of the same species, as those in different human blood groups.
- allocentric — Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
- allurements — Plural form of allurement.
- alpenstocks — Plural form of alpenstock.
- altiloquent — (of language) high-flown or pretentious.
- amativeness — (phrenology) The state or quality of being amative; propensity to love or sexual feelings.
- ambivalence — the simultaneous existence of two opposed and conflicting attitudes, emotions, etc
- ambivalency — uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
- amen corner — in some rural Protestant churches, the seats to the minister's right, once occupied by those leading the responsive amens
- amenability — ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable: an amenable servant.
- amenity bed — (in Britain) a hospital bed whose occupant receives free treatment but pays for nonmedical advantages, such as privacy
- amenorrheic — of or relating to amenorrhea
- amenorrhoea — abnormal absence of menstruation
- amentaceous — of or like an ament or aments