12-letter words that end in al
- duodecennial — relating to twelve years
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- earl marshal — an officer of the English peerage who presides over the College of Heralds and organizes royal processions and other important ceremonies
- earless seal — any seal of the family Phocidae, comprising seals that lack external ears and that use the hind flippers for swimming: land locomotion is accomplished by wriggling and by propelling with the front flippers.
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- ekman spiral — a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
- electronical — (rare) electronic.
- emblematical — See emblematic.
- emigrational — Relating to emigration.
- enarthrodial — Relating to an enarthrosis.
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- endochondral — occurring, or present, in cartilage
- endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
- endotracheal — Situated or occurring within or performed by way of the trachea.
- enharmonical — relating to the enharmonic scale
- enterococcal — Relating to, or produced by, an enterococcus.
- enterostomal — relating to enterostomy
- entoplastral — relating to an entoplastron
- epexegetical — Relating to epexegesis.
- epicycloidal — Of or pertaining to an epicycloid.
- epigraphical — Epigraphic.
- ethnological — Of or pertaining to ethnology.
- etymological — (not comparable) Of or relating to etymology.
- eulogistical — Alternative form of eulogistic.
- euroterminal — a railway terminus from which trans-European trains operate
- evening meal — dinner or supper
- excavational — Relating to excavation.
- expediential — Governed by expediency; seeking advantage.
- experiential — Involving or based on experience and observation.
- experimental — (of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized.
- expositional — Explained in clear terms, as in writing.
- expressional — Of or pertaining to expression, either in language, the face or the arts.
- extracranial — on the exterior of the skull, outside the skull
- extralogical — Outside of the domain of logic.
- extramarital — (especially of sexual relations) occurring outside marriage.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- extratextual — Outside of a text.
- false gavial — a SE Asian crocodile, Tomistoma schlegeli, similar to but smaller than the gavial
- fauxmosexual — (slang) A heterosexual person who affects homosexual characteristics.
- filler metal — metal supplied in the form of a welding rod, sometimes flux coated, melted by an arc or a flame into a joint between components to be joined
- fire marshal — an official heading a bureau for the prevention or investigation of fires.
- fissilingual — having a forked tongue
- fissirostral — having a broad, deeply cleft beak or bill, as the swallows and goatsuckers.
- foamed metal — a uniform foamlike metal structure produced when hydrogen bubbles are evolved from metal hydrides uniformly dispersed throughout a host metal or metal alloy: used as a structural material because of its shock-absorbing properties and light weight.
- foot-poundal — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy equal to the work done by a force of one poundal when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-pdl.
- foundational — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- free radical — an atom or molecule that bears an unpaired electron and is extremely reactive, capable of engaging in rapid chain reactions that destabilize other molecules and generate many more free radicals: in the body, deactivated by antioxidants, uric acid, and certain enzyme activities.
- full frontal — showing the entire front: full-frontal nudity.
- full-frontal — showing the entire front: full-frontal nudity.
- garbological — Of or relating to garbology.