12-letter words that end in e
- appropriable — that can be appropriated
- appurtenance — a secondary or less significant thing or part
- arachnophobe — a person who is afraid of spiders
- araeosystyle — (of columned buildings) having an alternately very wide and very narrow intercolumniation
- arborescence — treelike in size and form.
- arborio rice — variety of round-grain rice used for making risotto
- archegoniate — having archegonia
- archiphoneme — an abstract linguistic unit representing two or more phonemes when the distinction between these has been neutralized: conventionally shown by a capital letter within slashes, as /T/ for /t/ and /d/ in German Rat and Rad
- architecture — Architecture is the art of planning, designing, and constructing buildings.
- archive file — a single computer file that contains one or more files that have been compressed
- archive site — (networking) (Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. Some well-known archive sites included Imperial College, UK, UUNET, USA, GNU archive site. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.
- arden-arcade — suburb of Sacramento, in central Calif.: pop. 96,000
- arfvedsonite — a type of hornblende with the composition Na3(Fe,Mg)4FeSi8O22(OH)2
- argle-bargle — argy-bargy
- aripiprazole — An antipsychotic drug used in the treatment of schizophrenia etc.
- armored rope — rope made of wire-wrapped hempen strands that is used in salvage work.
- armour plate — a tough heavy steel, usually containing chromium, nickel, and molybdenum and often hardened on the surface, used for protecting warships, tanks, etc
- arrival date — Your arrival date is the date that you are expected to come to a hotel or other location.
- arrival time — the time when someone or something arrives, arrived, or will arrive
- arsenopyrite — a white or grey metallic mineral consisting of a sulphide of iron and arsenic that forms monoclinic crystals with an orthorhombic shape: an ore of arsenic. Formula: FeAsS
- arsphenamine — a drug containing arsenic, formerly used in the treatment of syphilis and related infections
- articulative — relating to articulation
- artiodactyle — (zoology) One of the Artiodactyla, a group of ungulates.
- asking price — The asking price of something is the price which the person selling it says that they want for it, although they may accept less.
- asparaginase — an enzyme used in treating leukaemia
- assay groove — (in silverwork) a furrow left in a piece by the digging out of metal for assay.
- assay office — an organization that assays and monitors the purity of precious metals in a particular country
- asseverative — characterized by or relating to solemn declaration or affirmation
- assimilative — of or causing assimilation; assimilating
- assumed name — If you do something under an assumed name, you do it using a name that is not your real name.
- astigmoscope — astigmatoscope.
- astonishable — (obsolete) Astonishing.
- astral plane — a plane of existence inhabited by astral bodies
- at a venture — at random; by chance
- at any price — If you want something at any price, you are determined to get it, even if unpleasant things happen as a result.
- at this rate — If you say that at this rate something bad or extreme will happen, you mean that it will happen if things continue to develop as they have been doing.
- at wholesale — in large quantities
- atholl brose — a mixture of whisky and honey left to ferment before consumption
- attache case — An attaché case is a flat case for holding documents.
- attitudinize — to adopt a pose or opinion for effect; strike an attitude
- attributable — If something is attributable to an event, situation, or person, it is likely that it was caused by that event, situation or person.
- au contraire — on the contrary
- auction sale — an instance of items being sold by auction
- auction site — a commercial website on which items are sold by internet auction
- augmentative — tending or able to augment
- auroral zone — the region surrounding the north or south geomagnetic pole in which the auroral phenomena take place.
- authenticate — If you authenticate something, you state officially that it is genuine after examining it.
- authorizable — able to be authorized
- autocatalyse — to cause an internal, self-produced, chemical reaction
- autocatalyze — To cause, or to undergo autocatalysis.