12-letter words containing si
- antialiasing — a technique for smoothing out jagged lines in graphical computer output.
- antibusiness — opposed to business interests, particularly those of large-scale corporations
- antitussives — Plural form of antitussive.
- aphrodisiacs — Plural form of aphrodisiac.
- apotheosized — Simple past tense and past participle of apotheosize.
- appassionato — (to be performed) in an impassioned manner
- appetisingly — Alternative spelling of appetizingly.
- applausively — in an applausive manner
- appositeness — The state of being apposite.
- appositional — the act of placing together or bringing into proximity; juxtaposition.
- appraisingly — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
- apprehension — Apprehension is a feeling of fear that something bad may happen.
- apprehensive — Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.
- archive site — (networking) (Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. Some well-known archive sites included Imperial College, UK, UUNET, USA, GNU archive site. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.
- arquebusiers — harquebusier.
- arsino group — the univalent group H 2 As−.
- ascensionist — a person who has completed a mountain ascent, esp a notable one
- assassin bug — any long-legged predatory, often blood-sucking, insect of the heteropterous family Reduviidae
- assassinated — Simple past tense and past participle of assassinate.
- assassinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of assassinate.
- assassinator — a person who assassinates
- assibilation — (linguistics) A sound change resulting in a sibilant consonant, commonly the final phase of palatalization.
- assignations — Plural form of assignation.
- assimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- assimilation — an assimilating or being assimilated
- assimilative — of or causing assimilation; assimilating
- assimilators — Plural form of assimilator.
- assimilatory — characterized by assimilation; assimilating.
- assimulating — Present participle of assimulate.
- assimulation — Obsolete form of assimilation.
- astrophysics — Astrophysics is the study of the physical and chemical structure of the stars, planets, and other natural objects in space.
- athrocytosis — the capability of a cell to receive and store matter
- auction site — a commercial website on which items are sold by internet auction
- australasian — Australasian means belonging or relating to Australasia or to its people.
- austronesian — of or relating to Austronesia, its peoples, or their languages
- autoanalysis — Psychoanalysis. self-analysis.
- autohypnosis — the process or result of self-induced hypnosis
- aversiveness — the condition of being characterized by aversion
- avitaminosis — any disease caused by a vitamin deficiency in the diet
- backcrossing — (genetics) The crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent.
- bandjarmasin — Banjarmasin
- bandjermasin — a seaport on the S coast of Borneo, in Indonesia.
- bank deposit — money placed in a bank account
- banksia rose — a climbing rose, Rosa banksiae, native to China, having long, serrated leaves and white or yellow flowers.
- bar sinister — the condition, implication, or stigma of being of illegitimate birth
- baraesthesia — the ability to sense pressure
- barn raising — (in rural areas) a party, usually providing food, drink, etc., for the purpose of assisting a neighbor to put up a new barn.
- barophoresis — the diffusion of suspended particles at a rate dependent on external forces
- barquisimeto — a city in NW Venezuela. Pop: 1 009 000 (2005 est)
- basic jovial — (language) A subset of JOVIAL written ca. 1965.