12-Letter Words Containing: A,D,E,N,O,T,A,_

• loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales

• put under state control or ownership

• make national in character or scope

• defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

• weed out unwanted or unnecessary things

• structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results

• think rationally; employ logic or reason

• remove irrational quantities from

• a portrayal of something as ideal

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad

• something that exists only as an idea

• unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory

• talk socially without exchanging too much information

• have a conference in order to talk something over

• an abundant source

• the source of water from which a stream arises

• the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft

• associated with or tending to cause decreases in consumer prices or increases in the purchasing power of money

• breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges)

• the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb)

• excessively abundant