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12-letter words containing a, g, o

  • angle of dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
  • angle of lag — the phase difference, expressed in degrees, by which one sinusoidal function moves behind a second having the same period, as alternating current moving behind the alternating voltage.
  • angle of yaw — the acute angle between the longitudinal axis of an aircraft or spacecraft and a given reference direction, as viewed from above.
  • anglo-celtic — of or relating to an inhabitant of Australia who was or whose ancestors were born in the British Isles
  • anglo-french — of or relating to England and France
  • anglo-gallic — noting or pertaining to the coins or series of coins issued by the English kings from Henry II to Henry VIII for their French domains.
  • anglo-indian — An Anglo-Indian person is someone whose family is partly British and partly Indian.
  • anglo-norman — relating to the Norman conquerors of England, their society, or their language
  • anglophiliac — a strong admiration or enthusiasm for England, its people, and things English.
  • anglophobiac — a person with a fear or dread of England or the English
  • anguilliform — having the shape or form of an eel
  • annoyingness — causing annoyance; irritatingly bothersome: annoying delays.
  • anorexigenic — causing loss of appetite
  • anotherguess — of a different type or kind; different
  • antagonising — Present participle of antagonise.
  • antagonistic — If a person is antagonistic to someone or something, they show hatred or dislike towards them.
  • antagonizing — to make hostile or unfriendly; make an enemy or antagonist of: His speech antagonized many voters.
  • anthological — a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or on the same subject: an anthology of Elizabethan drama; an anthology of modern philosophy.
  • anthologised — Simple past tense and past participle of anthologise.
  • anthologiser — Alternative spelling of anthologizer.
  • anthologized — to compile an anthology.
  • anthologizer — an anthologist; a creator of an anthology
  • anthologizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anthologize.
  • anthophagous — That feeds on flowers.
  • anthropogeny — the genesis or development of the human race, especially as a subject of scientific study.
  • anthropoglot — An animal with tongue similar to humans allowing human-like speech.
  • anthropogony — the origin of the human species
  • anthropology — Anthropology is the scientific study of people, society, and culture.
  • anti-foreign — the policy or practice of showing hostility toward foreigners, foreign customs, etc.
  • anti-smoking — opposed to or promoting the discontinuance of the smoking of tobacco: an antismoking campaign launched by a health agency.
  • antiandrogen — (steroid, pharmacology) Any substance that inhibits the release or the biological effects of an androgen.
  • anticlotting — of a nature that prevents blood clotting
  • antidogmatic — opposed to dogma
  • antiestrogen — any of several major female sex hormones produced primarily by the ovarian follicles of female mammals, capable of inducing estrus, developing and maintaining secondary female sex characteristics, and preparing the uterus for the reception of a fertilized egg: used, especially in synthetic form, as a component of oral contraceptives, in certain cancer treatments, and in other therapies.
  • antiglobulin — a serum containing an antibody specific to an immunoglobulin
  • antigonus ii — (Gonatus) c319–239 b.c, king of Macedonia 283–239 (son of Demetrius I).
  • antigraviton — (mostly, scifi) The hypothetical antipartner of a graviton.
  • antigropelos — waterproof leggings used to protect against mud
  • antihydrogen — hydrogen in which the nucleus is an antiproton with an orbiting positron
  • antilegomena — the books of the New Testament which have been excluded from the canon of Scripture
  • antioncogene — (genetics) Any gene that suppresses the formation of tumours.
  • antipoaching — acting against or opposed to poaching
  • antireligion — opposed to religion
  • aortographic — relating to an aortography or aortography
  • apagogically — in an apagogical manner
  • aplanogamete — a nonmotile gamete or conjugating cell found in lower algae
  • apostatizing — Present participle of apostatize.
  • apothegmatic — Relating to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.
  • apple maggot — a fruit fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, the larvae of which bore into and feed on the fruit of apple trees: family Trypetidae
  • appoggiatura — an ornament consisting of a nonharmonic note (short or long) preceding a harmonic one either before or on the stress
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