12-letter words containing act
- practicalism — devotion to practical matters.
- practicalist — devotion to practical matters.
- practicality — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- practitioner — a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation, etc.: a medical practitioner.
- pre-contract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
- pro-activity — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- prophylactic — defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
- protactinium — a radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Pa; atomic number: 91.
- psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- quick-acting — (of a drug, chemical, etc) taking effect quickly
- re-enactment — the act of enacting.
- reactivation — to render active again; revive.
- reactiveness — tending to react.
- reactivities — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- refractivity — the power to refract.
- retractively — in a retractive manner
- satisfaction — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
- satisfactory — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- screen actor — a film actor
- semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
- seroreaction — any reaction occurring in serum.
- shock tactic — Shock tactics are a way of trying to influence people's attitudes to a particular matter by shocking them.
- short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- stereotactic — movement of an organism in response to contact with a solid.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
- subfactorial — the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged so that none of the objects are in their original or correct place
- substraction — the act or process of subtracting
- suicide pact — an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.
- syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.
- syndactylous — having fingers, or toes, united
- syndiotactic — (of a polymer molecule) having a regular alternation of opposite configurations at successive regularly spaced positions along the chain. See also configuration (def 4).
- tactile hair — any highly sensitive hair of an animal, as the whiskers of a cat or hairs on a hedgehog's snout.
- tactlessness — lacking tact; showing no tact; undiplomatic; offendingly blunt: a tactless remark.
- tetradactyly — the condition of having four fingers or toes
- thigmotactic — movement of an organism toward or away from any object that provides a mechanical stimulus.
- thiobacteria — bacteria found esp. in stagnant water and at the bottom of the sea, that oxidize or reduce sulfur compounds, as hydrogen sulfide
- torrefaction — to subject to fire or intense heat; parch, roast, or scorch.
- tractability — easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding: a tractable child; a tractable disposition.
- tractor feed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- tractor pull — a contest in which tractors compete to pull the heaviest load.
- tractoration — a medical technique involving drawing the points of two rods of different metals over the affected body part
- transactions — the published records of the proceedings of a society, conference, etc
- trophotactic — of or relating to trophotaxis