11-letter words containing n, a, c
- antispastic — preventing or reducing spasms
- antisuicide — acting to prevent suicide
- antitobacco — opposed to or acting against tobacco smoking
- antitypical — something that is foreshadowed by a type or symbol, as a New Testament event prefigured in the Old Testament.
- antivaccine — Opposed to vaccination.
- anucleolate — lacking a nucleolus or nucleoli.
- anvil cloud — another name for a cumulonimbus cloud, which tends to be anvil-shaped
- anxiolytics — Plural form of anxiolytic.
- aphidicolin — A tetracyclic diterpene antibiotic with antiviral and antimitotical properties.
- apicodental — articulated with the apex of the tongue near the upper front teeth, as ( (θ) ; t h) ) and (; ð) ; th) )
- apocopation — to shorten by apocope.
- apocynthion — the point at which a spacecraft in lunar orbit is farthest from the moon
- apollonicon — a large chamber organ with keyboards and barrels
- aponeurotic — a whitish, fibrous membrane that connects a muscle to a bone or fascia.
- appalachian — of, from, or relating to the Appalachian Mountains
- appeachment — an accusation or criminal charge
- appearances — the act or fact of appearing, as to the eye or mind or before the public: the unannounced appearance of dinner guests; the last appearance of Caruso in Aïda; her first appearance at a stockholders' meeting.
- appendences — attached or suspended; annexed.
- appendiceal — of or relating to the vermiform appendix.
- application — An application for something such as a job or membership of an organization is a formal written request for it.
- apprecation — (obsolete) Earnest prayer; devout wish.
- apprenticed — a person who works for another in order to learn a trade: an apprentice to a plumber.
- apprentices — Plural form of apprentice.
- approaching — coming closer in time
- apron piece — (in a staircase) a header receiving the ends of rough strings, carriage pieces, and the joists of landings.
- aquaintance — Misspelling of acquaintance.
- aquanautics — the study or practice of undersea travel
- arachidonic — related to arachidonic acid or the derivatives of arachidonic acid
- arachnoidal — relating to the arachnoid
- arachnology — the study of arachnids
- arborescent — having the shape or characteristics of a tree
- arc furnace — a furnace in which the charge is heated by an electric arc
- arc tangent — the angle, measured in radians, that has a tangent equal to a given number. Symbol: tan −1. Abbreviation: arc tan;
- arc welding — a technique in which metal is welded by heat generated by an electric arc struck between two electrodes or between one electrode and the metal workpiece
- arc-boutant — flying buttress.
- archaeornis — an extinct primitive Jurassic bird, formerly placed in the genus Archaeornis but now thought to be a species of archaeopteryx
- archangelic — Theology. a chief or principal angel; in medieval angelology one of the nine orders of celestial attendants on God. Compare angel (def 1).
- archdeacons — Plural form of archdeacon.
- archegonial — relating to an archegonium
- archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
- archenemies — Plural form of archenemy.
- archenteric — Of or pertaining to an archenteron.
- archenteron — the cavity within an embryo at the gastrula stage of development that eventually becomes the digestive cavity
- archimedean — of, relating to, or discovered by Archimedes.
- archnemesis — A chief nemesis.
- archvillain — A supreme villain; the most evil or powerful villain.
- arctic tern — a black-capped tern, Sterna paradisea, that breeds in the Arctic and then migrates as far south as the Antarctic
- arctic zone — the section of the earth's surface lying between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole.
- arenicolous — growing or living in sand or sandy places
- areocentric — relating to a reference system which has Mars as its centre