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11-letter words containing a, n, t, i

  • adventurism — Adventurism is a willingness to take risks, especially in order to obtain an unfair advantage in politics or business.
  • adventurist — If you describe someone or something as adventurist, you disapprove of them because they are willing to take risks in order to gain an unfair advantage in business or politics.
  • advertising — Advertising is the activity of creating advertisements and making sure people see them.
  • advertizing — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
  • advice note — a document sent by a supplier to a customer to inform him that goods he ordered have been dispatched. It usually gives details such as the quantity of goods and how they have been sent
  • adzharistan — an autonomous region in SW Georgia, bordered by Turkey and the Black Sea. 1120 sq. mi. (2900 sq. km). Capital: Batumi.
  • aeneolithic — Chalcolithic.
  • aerodonetic — Relating to aerodonetics.
  • aeronautics — Aeronautics is the science of designing and building aeroplanes.
  • aerostation — the science of operating lighter-than-air craft
  • aestivation — the act or condition of aestivating
  • affectation — If you say that someone's attitude or behaviour is an affectation, you disapprove of the fact that it is not genuine or natural, but is intended to impress other people.
  • affectingly — In a manner so as to affect.
  • affectional — relating to or implying affection.
  • affectioned — Simple past tense and past participle of affection.
  • affiliating — Present participle of affiliate.
  • affiliation — If one group has an affiliation with another group, it has a close or official connection with it.
  • affirmation — the act of affirming or the state of being affirmed
  • afflictions — Plural form of affliction.
  • affluential — an affluent person who does not display his or her wealth in the form of material possessions
  • afforesting — Present participle of afforest.
  • affrication — the changing of (a consonantal speech sound) to an affricate
  • affrighting — Present participle of affright.
  • afghanistan — a republic in central Asia: became independent in 1919; occupied by Soviet troops, 1979–89; controlled by mujaheddin forces from 1992 until 1996 when Taliban forces seized power; in the US-led 'war on terror' (2001) the Taliban were overthrown although their insurgency continues; generally arid and mountainous, with the Hindu Kush range rising over 7500 m (25 000 ft) and fertile valleys of the Amu Darya, Helmand, and Kabul Rivers. Official languages: Pashto and Dari (Persian), Tajik also widely spoken. Religion: Muslim. Currency: afghani. Capital: Kabul. Pop: 31 108 077 (2013 est). Area: 657 500 sq km (250 000 sq miles)
  • afrocentric — centered on, emphasizing, or showing the influence of African or, sometimes, African-American history and culture
  • agglutinant — sticking together; adhesive
  • agglutinate — to adhere or cause to adhere, as with glue
  • agglutinins — Plural form of agglutinin.
  • aggradation — to raise the grade or level of (a river valley, a stream bed, etc.) by depositing detritus, sediment, or the like.
  • aggravating — causing or full of aggravation: I've had an aggravating day.
  • aggravation — the act of aggravating, or making worse, or the condition of being aggravated
  • aggregating — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
  • aggregation — the act or process of aggregating
  • aggrupation — (Philippines) A group, an organization.
  • agitational — the act or process of agitating; state of being agitated: She left in great agitation.
  • agnatically — from an agnatic point of view
  • agnosticism — Agnosticism is the belief that it is not possible to say definitely whether or not there is a God. Compare atheism.
  • agonistical — relating to conflict or struggle
  • agronomists — Plural form of agronomist.
  • aguardiente — any inferior brandy or similar spirit, esp from Spain, Portugal, or South America
  • aid station — a medical station in a forward area where the sick and wounded are given emergency treatment
  • ailanthuses — Plural form of ailanthus.
  • 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 station — an airfield, usually smaller than an airport but having facilities for the maintenance of aircraft
  • air turbine — a small turbine driven by compressed air, esp one used as a starter for engines
  • aircraftman — a serviceman of the most junior rank in the RAF
  • aircraftmen — Plural form of aircraftman.
  • alabastrine — a finely granular variety of gypsum, often white and translucent, used for ornamental objects or work, such as lamp bases, figurines, etc.
  • alan turing — (person)   Alan M. Turing, 1912-06-22/3? - 1954-06-07. A British mathematician, inventor of the Turing Machine. Turing also proposed the Turing test. Turing's work was fundamental in the theoretical foundations of computer science. Turing was a student and fellow of King's College Cambridge and was a graduate student at Princeton University from 1936 to 1938. While at Princeton Turing published "On Computable Numbers", a paper in which he conceived an abstract machine, now called a Turing Machine. Turing returned to England in 1938 and during World War II, he worked in the British Foreign Office. He masterminded operations at Bletchley Park, UK which were highly successful in cracking the Nazis "Enigma" codes during World War II. Some of his early advances in computer design were inspired by the need to perform many repetitive symbolic manipulations quickly. Before the building of the Colossus computer this work was done by a roomful of women. In 1945 he joined the National Physical Laboratory in London and worked on the design and construction of a large computer, named Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). In 1949 Turing became deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester where the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, the worlds largest memory computer, was being built. He also worked on theories of artificial intelligence, and on the application of mathematical theory to biological forms. In 1952 he published the first part of his theoretical study of morphogenesis, the development of pattern and form in living organisms. Turing was gay, and died rather young under mysterious circumstances. He was arrested for violation of British homosexuality statutes in 1952. He died of potassium cyanide poisoning while conducting electrolysis experiments. An inquest concluded that it was self-administered but it is now thought by some to have been an accident. There is an excellent biography of Turing by Andrew Hodges, subtitled "The Enigma of Intelligence" and a play based on it called "Breaking the Code". There was also a popular summary of his work in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach".
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