12-letter words containing al
- antebrachial — Lb anatomy relating to the forearm.
- antecedental — preceding; prior: an antecedent event.
- antediluvial — Of or pertaining to a time before Noah's flood (or similar deluge myth).
- anteprandial — before dinner
- 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.
- anthropoidal — Anthropoid.
- anti-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- anti-radical — opposed to radicalism or radicals.
- anti-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- anti-tumoral — a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- antialiasing — a technique for smoothing out jagged lines in graphical computer output.
- antiallergic — An antiallergic substance prevents or relieves allergies.
- antibiblical — Opposing or contradicting the Bible.
- antibiotical — Of or pertaining to antibiotics.
- anticatalase — a substance that inhibits the enzymatic action of a catalase.
- anticatalyst — a substance that destroys or diminishes the activity of a catalyst
- anticlerical — opposed to the power and influence of the clergy, esp in politics
- anticolonial — opposed to colonialism
- anticultural — against culture or civilization
- anticyclical — not conforming to or following a cycle: anticyclical sales that rise when the economy fades.
- antihalation — a process by which light, passing through the emulsion on a film or plate, is not reflected back into it but is absorbed by a layer of dye or pigment, usually on the back of the film, thus preventing halation
- antimalarial — effective in the treatment of malaria
- antimaterial — Lb particle physics Composed of antimatter.
- antinatalist — A supporter of antinatalism.
- antinational — opposed to one's nation; unpatriotic
- antiparallel — parallel but pointing in the opposite direction
- antipetalous — standing before the petals of a plant
- antiphonally — In an antiphonal manner; in the manner of an antiphon.
- antiphonical — Alternative form of antiphonic.
- antirational — opposed to rationalism
- antiroyalism — Opposition to royals or royalism.
- antiroyalist — opposed to the monarchy
- antisepalous — facing the sepals or calyx leaf
- antisocially — In an antisocial manner.
- antithetical — Something that is antithetical to something else is the opposite of it and is unable to exist with it.
- antitumoural — acting against or upon tumours
- aortic valve — a semilunar valve between the aorta and the left ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the left ventricle.
- apagogically — in an apagogical manner
- apalachicola — river in NW Fla., flowing from the Fla.-Ga. border southward into the Gulf of Mexico: 90 mi (145 km)
- aphoristical — Alternative form of aphoristic.
- apocalyptist — the writer of the Apocalypse or a related work
- apocryphally — In an apocryphal manner.
- apodeictical — Apodeictic.
- apolitically — in an apolitical manner
- apparitional — of or relating to an apparition or apparitions; ghostly, spectral
- appeal court — An appeal court is the same as a Court of Appeal.
- apple valley — a town in SE Minnesota.
- appositional — the act of placing together or bringing into proximity; juxtaposition.
- aquacultural — related to aquaculture
- archesporial — the primitive cell, or group of cells, that give rise to the cells from which spores are derived.