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11-letter words starting with a

  • aguardiente — any inferior brandy or similar spirit, esp from Spain, Portugal, or South America
  • ahistorical — not related to history; not historical
  • ahmadinejad — Mahmoud (mæhˈmuːd). born 1956, Iranian politician; president of Iran (2005–13)
  • ahuna varya — the best-known and most frequently recited prayer: equivalent to the Lord's Prayer for Christians.
  • ahura mazda — Ormazd
  • ai-complete — (artificial intelligence, jargon)   /A-I k*m-pleet'/ (MIT, Stanford: by analogy with "NP-complete") A term used to describe problems or subproblems in artificial intelligence, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the "strong AI problem" (that is, the synthesis of a human-level intelligence). A problem that is AI-complete is, in other words, just too hard. See also gedanken.
  • aibohphobia — (humorous) An irrational fear of palindromes.
  • aid station — a medical station in a forward area where the sick and wounded are given emergency treatment
  • aid-de-camp — aide-de-camp.
  • aiguillette — an ornamentation worn by certain military officers, consisting of cords with metal tips
  • ailanthuses — Plural form of ailanthus.
  • ailurophile — a person who likes cats
  • ailurophobe — a person who dislikes or is afraid of cats
  • aimlessness — The state or quality of being aimless, or without purpose or direction.
  • air attache — a commissioned officer or warrant officer of an air force serving on the staff of an ambassador or minister.
  • air battery — a set of two or more air cells connected together to supply electricity.
  • air bladder — an air-filled sac, lying above the alimentary canal in bony fishes, that regulates buoyancy at different depths by a variation in the pressure of the air
  • air carrier — a commercial carrier utilizing aircraft as its means of transport; an airline, as for passengers or freight.
  • air cavalry — an infantry or reconnaissance unit transported by air to combat areas.
  • air chamber — a compartment in a device or structure that is filled with air
  • air cleaner — a filter that prevents dust and other particles from entering the air-intake of an internal-combustion engine
  • air command — the Canadian air force
  • air current — a mass of air moving from one area to another
  • air curtain — an air stream across a doorway to exclude draughts, etc
  • air cushion — an inflatable cushion, usually made of rubber or plastic
  • air express — the rapid transportation of goods and documents by aircraft
  • air freight — freight transported by aircraft
  • air hostess — An air hostess is a woman whose job is to look after the passengers in an aircraft.
  • air marshal — a senior Royal Air Force officer of equivalent rank to a vice admiral in the Royal Navy
  • air officer — a term used to denote the appointment of any officer in the Royal Air Force above the rank of Air Commodore to a position of command
  • air passage — a space occupied or traversed by air.
  • air quality — the composition of the air in terms of how much pollution it contains
  • air service — the services performed by an airline, as flights between various destinations to transport passengers, freight, and mail.
  • air shuttle — a shuttle service operated by aircraft, usually covering short routes with frequent flights
  • air sprayer — a pneumatic sprayer.
  • air station — an airfield, usually smaller than an airport but having facilities for the maintenance of aircraft
  • air steward — a steward on an airliner
  • air surfing — surfing that involves aerial stunts
  • air traffic — the organized movement of aircraft within a given space
  • air turbine — a small turbine driven by compressed air, esp one used as a starter for engines
  • air vesicle — a large air-filled intercellular space in some aquatic plants
  • air waybill — a document made out by the consignor of goods by air freight giving details of the goods and the name of the consignee
  • air-breathe — (of an engine, aircraft, missile, etc.) to take in air from the atmosphere to oxidize the fuel for combustion.
  • air-express — to send or transport by air express: Your package will be air-expressed and should reach its destination tomorrow.
  • air-shipped — to send or ship via aircraft: to air-ship machine parts overseas.
  • air-sprayed — sprayed by means of compressed air
  • airboarding — a snow sport in which participants slide down slopes headfirst lying flat on an inflatable board
  • airbrushing — Present participle of airbrush.
  • aircraftman — a serviceman of the most junior rank in the RAF
  • aircraftmen — Plural form of aircraftman.
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