12-Letter Words Containing A

Nonacademic

ACTIVATED activate

Nonaddict

ADIABATIC Not giving out or receiving heat.

Failure to be admitted.

Inflected form of AESTHETIC Inflected form of AESTHETE a person who affects an extravagant love of art

Person between ages of 90 and 99

Ninety year old

One coming up to 100

Soft (drink)

Virgin, to a bartender

Unlike most things sold in bars, like chocolate

Policy of neutrality

""AMBIGUOUS Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression. as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression.""

ANTIGENIC

""ARBITRARY Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.""

""ARCHITECT A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.""

Nonargument

ASSERTIVE Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

Nonattender

AUTOMATED automate

Same as hand-operated.hand-operated.

BACTERIAL Of or pertaining to bacteria.

Nonbotanist

BREAKABLE Capable of being broken.

BREATHING breathe

""BROADCAST A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.""

""CANCEROUS Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth.as, a cancerous growth.""

CANDIDACY The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.

""CANDIDATE One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors. as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.""

Nonchalance

In a calm and relaxed manner

In insouciant fashion

With composure

""CHARACTER A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.""

Nonchemical

""CLASSICAL Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.""

CLASSROOM

Word with prefix non-

COLLINEAR

COLORFAST

One not fighting in war

Person not fighting in war

Noncombat

Guarded in speech

Guarded, but without being locked up (wordplay)

On the fence, not a prison sentence (wordplay)

Word with prefix non-

""CORPORATE Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. as, a corporate town.""

Noncoverage

Noncriminal

Inflected form of CRUSHABLE Inflected form of CRUSH to press out of shape

CUSTODIAL Relating to custody or guardianship.

Nondelegate

Nondemand

Nondiabetic

Word with prefix non-

Word with prefix non-

""EDITORIAL Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.""

""EDUCATION The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.""

""EMOTIONAL Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature. as, an emotional nature.""

""EMPIRICAL Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.""

""Inflected form of ENZYMATIC Inflected form of ENZYME a complex protein, also ENZYM""

Suspect online assent is unimportant

Not totally necessary

Not absolutely necessary

Lite

Nonfeasance

FEDERATED federate

""FICTIONAL Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.""

FINANCIAL Pertaining to finance.

""Not easily ignited, and burning only slowly if ignited.""

""Inflected form of GLAMOROUS Inflected form of GLAMOR to bewitch, also GLAMOUR""

Nongraduate

HAPPENING happen

HAZARDOUS Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.

Word with prefix non-

""IDENTICAL The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. as, the identical person or thing.""

Not marked by or given to imitation. Opposite of imitative.imitative.

IMMIGRANT One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; correlative of emigrant. emigrant.

Noninitiate

""INSURANCE The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6. premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.""

IRRIGATED irrigate

LANDOWNER An owner of land.

Nonlanguage

LIBRARIAN One who has the care or charge of a library.

Plural or third person singular

Inflected form of LINEARITY Inflected form of LINEAR resembling a straight line

Nonliterate

""Not malignant, as a disease.""

""MALLEABLE Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; applied to metals.""

""MERCURIAL Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament. as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament.""

""METAMERIC Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric. as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.""

Inflected form of MICROBIAL Inflected form of MICROBE a microscopic organism

Not participating in migrations; -- used of animals that do not migrate. Opposite of migratory.migratory.

Nonmilitant

""MOLECULAR Pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or consisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc. as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc.""

""MUNICIPAL Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers. as, municipal rights; municipal officers.""

Nonmusician

NARRATIVE Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.

Nonnational

""NORMATIVE relating to or dealing with norms; as, normative discipline; normative samples.as, normative discipline; normative samples.""

Without a nucleus.

Inflected form of NUMERICAL Inflected form of NUMERIC a {numeral=n}

""OBSERVANT Taking notice; viewing or noticing attentively; watchful; attentive; as, an observant spectator; observant habits as, an observant spectator; observant habits""

OPERATING operate

Broken

Word with prefix non-

Not parasitic.

PASSERINE Of or pertaining to the Passeres.

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

""PHYSICIAN A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.""

Not political. Opposite of political.political.

PRACTICAL Of or pertaining to practice or action.

REALISTIC Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

""REDUNDANT Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.""

REGULATED regulate

Nonrelative

Cannot be replenished

""REPAYABLE Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind. as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind.""

Making no resistance.

Plural or third person singular

Nonruminant

Integrated new functioning car seat in buggy

SOCIALIST One who advocates or practices the doctrines of socialism.

""Inflected form of SPHERICAL Inflected form of SPHERIC having the form of a sphere, also SPHERAL""

Inflected form of STEROIDAL Inflected form of STEROID a type of chemical compound

Without any long-term focus

""Not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; as, nontechnical aspects of the job; nontechnical training. Opposite of technical.as, nontechnical aspects of the job; nontechnical training. Opposite of technical.""

Word with prefix non-

""TREATMENT The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.""

""UNANIMOUS Being of one mind; agreeing in opinion, design, or determination; consentient; not discordant or dissentient; harmonious; as, the assembly was unanimous; the members of the council were unanimous. as, the assembly was unanimous; the members of the council were unanimous.""

""UNIVERSAL Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; allreaching; allpervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice. as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice.""

VANISHING vanish

VOLUNTARY Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.

See norepinephrine .

""NORMALIZE To make normal; as, to normalize relations with China.as, to normalize relations with China.""

Normal body temperature.

Coming from the top right part of the map

""NORTHEASTER A storm, strong wind, or gale, coming from the northeast.""

Notability

""NOTARIZE to attest to as a notary, also NOTARISE""

Act of making known

Warning? Not if I can hold it back with love!

Announcement

""NOVELIZE to put into the form of a novel, also NOVELISE""

""The basic structure of a virus, consisting of a core of nucleic acid enclosed in a protein coat.""

Nucleoplasm

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a nucleotide to a nucleoside and phosphoric acid.

Coin collectors

Nuptiality

Many champion dissolute sex addict

Nymphomania

Oafishness

Oarsmanship

""OBDURATE to become hard-hearted, also OBDURE""

Obfuscation

Objurgation

""Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.""

Oblateness

In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation.

Erasing

Fantastic lob before repeat loss

The removal of oil to Iran - bet it goes astray!

Utter destruction

Tending or serving to obliterate.

Obliterator

OBNUBILATE To cloud; to obscure.

Clouding stink over knight with general rejoicing losing head

For this custom, brain's abandoned

One who makes dim, daft subtractions

Wrong subtractions standing in the way of enlightenment

Resisting enlightenment, having messed up subtractions

Obscuration

Roughly Sobers admits VAT is charged for examinations

Measurements from an experiment soon vibrates all over the place

Childbirth doctor

Medical specialist - is certain to get involved around start of birth (wordplay)

Expert with children, i.e. Scot involved with bairn taking temperature

Cosy in a local? Can be, sometimes

From time to time

Party supporter? Now and then

Occidental

Occultation

Relating to one's job or profession

Rehabilitation via practical activities

To do with work

Scientific study of the seas

A subject for deep study

Study of the sea

Oceanology

One whose main interest is scientific

Sea scientist

Scientist involved with study of the seas

Ochlocracy

Octahedral

Octapeptide

Old man's gone out with raincoat

Robert Frost, for example.

Veteran's gone out in shabby raincoat

Also octosyllabic ( k t -s -l b k) a. A line of verse containing eight syllables.

Octosyllabic.

Odontoblast

Officialdom

Officialese

Officialism

Officiation

Oleaginous

English word

An apparatus for measuring the acuity of the sense of smell.

OLIGARCHIC

Oligochaete

Oligophagy

""Feeding on a restricted range of food substances, especially a limited number of plants. Used chiefly of insects.""

Any of a group of viruses that contain single-stranded RNA and produce tumors in birds and mammals.

English word

Formation of words from natural sounds.

Cuckoo or "whippoorwill," for example

Formation of words like "buzz" or "hiss"

Sounding like its meaning

""Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms; a member of the Onychophora, also called Malacopoda. See Malacopoda.Onychophora, also called Malacopoda. See Malacopoda.""

Opalescence

Opalescent

Opaqueness

Generously display palms

Generously

He'd lend, no pay, all required in most generous fashion

OPERATIC the technique of staging operas

""OPERATION The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.""

""OPERATION The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.""

OPERATOR one that {operates=v}

Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated.

The condition or quality of being opposable.

""OPPOSITION The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.""