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16-letter words containing a, s, i

  • anticholinergics — Plural form of anticholinergic.
  • anticyclogenesis — the intensification or development of an anticyclone.
  • antiessentialist — Opposing essentialism.
  • antihypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
  • antihypertensive — able to inhibit or control hypertension
  • antilles current — a warm ocean current flowing NW along the N coast of the Greater Antilles and joining the Florida Current off the SW coast of Florida.
  • antimony sulfate — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-insoluble solid, Sb 2 (SO 4) 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives.
  • antimony sulfide — antimony pentasulfide.
  • antiparkinsonian — An antiparkinsonian is an agent used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
  • antiphospholipid — (medicine) Counteracting phospholipids; applied to Hughes syndrome.
  • antirecessionary — used to counteract or offest the economic effects of a recession: the president's antirecessionary program.
  • anxiety disorder — any of various mental disorders characterized by extreme anxiety and including panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder
  • anxiety neurosis — a relatively mild form of mental illness characterized by extreme distress and agitation, often occurring without any obvious cause
  • aplastic anaemia — anaemia caused by a defect in the body's ability to regenerate blood cells
  • apostolic church — the Christian church as founded by the apostles.
  • appeals tribunal — a tribunal that hears appeals
  • apple of discord — a golden apple inscribed "For the fairest". It was claimed by Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, to whom Paris awarded it, thus beginning a chain of events that led to the Trojan War
  • applied research — research that is put to practical use
  • applied sciences — sciences that are put to practical use
  • appraisal method — a method used for the appraisal of an employee
  • appreciativeness — The state or quality of being appreciative.
  • apprehensiveness — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
  • april fool's day — April Fool's Day is the 1st of April, the day on which people traditionally play tricks on each other.
  • april fools' day — April 1, a day when practical jokes or tricks are played on unsuspecting people.
  • aquidneck island — an island in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
  • aratus of sicyon — 271–213 b.c, Greek general: leader of the Achaean League.
  • archaeomagnetism — an archaeological technique for dating certain clay objects by measuring the extent to which they have been magnetized by the earth's magnetic field
  • archconservative — consistently holding extremely conservative views: publisher of the city's archconservative newspaper.
  • archival storage — a method of retaining information outside of the internal memory of a computer
  • aristocratically — In an aristocratic manner.
  • armillary sphere — a model of the celestial sphere consisting of rings representing the relative positions of the celestial equator, ecliptic, etc, used by early astronomers for determining the positions of stars
  • ars gratia artis — art for art's sake
  • arsenic trioxide — a white poisonous powder used in the manufacture of glass and as an insecticide, rat poison, and weedkiller. Formula: As2O3
  • arteriosclerosis — Arteriosclerosis is a medical condition in which the walls of your arteries become hard and thick, so your blood cannot flow through them properly.
  • arteriosclerotic — degenerative changes in the arteries, characterized by thickening of the vessel walls and accumulation of calcium with consequent loss of elasticity and lessened blood flow.
  • arthroscopically — By means of arthroscopy.
  • arthus' reaction — a severe, local immune reaction to the injection of an antigen in a sensitized host.
  • artistic license — (legal)   The open source license applicable to Perl.
  • as distinct from — If you say that you are talking about one thing as distinct from another, you are indicating exactly which thing you mean.
  • as far as i know — You can use far in expressions like 'as far as I know' and 'so far as I remember' to indicate that you are not absolutely sure of the statement you are about to make or have just made, and you may be wrong.
  • as is one's wont — If someone does a particular thing as is their wont, they do that thing often or regularly.
  • as large as life — real and living
  • as likely as not — very probably
  • as right as rain — If you say that someone is as right as rain, you mean that they are completely well or healthy again, for example when they have recovered from an illness or a shock.
  • asalam-wa-leikum — a salutation used in India
  • ascending rhythm — rising rhythm.
  • ascidian tadpole — the free-swimming larva of an ascidian, having a tadpole-like tail containing the notochord and nerve cord
  • ashurnasirpal ii — ("the Merciless") died 859? b.c, warrior king of Assyria 884?–859 b.c.
  • asiatic elephant — Indian elephant. See under elephant.
  • asparaginic acid — aspartic acid.
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