12-letter words containing s
- affamishment — (obsolete) starvation.
- affectations — Plural form of affectation.
- affectedness — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
- afficionados — Plural form of afficionado.
- affiliations — Plural form of affiliation.
- affirmations — Plural form of affirmation.
- affirmatives — Plural form of affirmative.
- afforestable — having the capacity to be turned into forest
- affranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of affranchise.
- aforestation — Alternative spelling of afforestation.
- africanness' — Also, Africa. of or from Africa; belonging to the black peoples of Africa.
- afrikanerism — a word, term, or usage peculiar to or originating among Afrikaners.
- afro-asiatic — a family of languages of SW Asia and N Africa, consisting of the Semitic, ancient Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and Chadic subfamilies
- afro-british — of or relating to British people of African descent
- afrocentrism — centered on Africa or on African-derived cultures, as those of Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti: Afrocentric art.
- after a sort — to some extent
- after-school — After-school activities are those that are organized for children in the afternoon or evening after they have finished school.
- afterburners — Plural form of afterburner.
- aftereffects — Plural form of aftereffect.
- against time — in an effort to complete something in a limited period
- agamogenesis — asexual reproduction, such as fission or parthenogenesis
- agaricaceous — belonging to the Agaricaceae, a family of fungi including mushrooms having blade-shaped gills on the underside of the cap.
- agency nurse — a nurse employed by an agency, rather than by a hospital
- agesilaus ii — 444?–c360 b.c, king of Sparta c400–c360.
- agglomerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agglomerate.
- agglutinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agglutinate.
- aggrandising — Present participle of aggrandise.
- aggravations — Plural form of aggravation.
- aggregations — Plural form of aggregation.
- aggressively — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- aggressivity — the state or quality of being aggressive
- aggrupations — Plural form of aggrupation.
- agnostically — a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience. Synonyms: disbeliever, nonbeliever, unbeliever; doubter, skeptic, secularist, empiricist; heathen, heretic, infidel, pagan.
- agp graphics — Accelerated Graphics Port
- agribusiness — Agribusiness is the various businesses that produce, sell, and distribute farm products, especially on a large scale.
- agriproducts — Plural form of agriproduct.
- agrobusiness — the businesses collectively associated with the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products.
- agroforester — a person who carries out agroforestry
- agroforestry — a method of farming integrating herbaceous and tree crops
- agroindustry — an activity combining agriculture and industry
- aids-related — caused by or associated with the AIDS virus
- aiguillettes — Plural form of aiguillette.
- ailurophiles — Plural form of ailurophile.
- ailurophobes — Plural form of ailurophobe.
- air disaster — a very serious air crash in which in a lot of people are killed or injured
- air division — an organizational unit smaller than an air force, usually composed of a headquarters and two or more wings
- air embolism — the presence in the tissues and blood of a gas, such as air or nitrogen bubbles, caused by an injection of air or, in the case of nitrogen, by an abrupt and substantial reduction in the ambient pressure
- air mattress — an inflatable mattress or pad, as of plastic or rubber, used for camping, as an extra bed, etc.
- air ministry — (in England) the department of government administering all civil and military matters concerning aviation.
- air observer — observer (def 3).