11-letter words containing a, m, i
- antimalware — Designed or intended to combat or eliminate malware on a computer system.
- antimasques — Plural form of antimasque.
- antimension — a consecrated linen or silk cloth, kept on an altar, to which is sewn a linen or silk bag containing relics of saints.
- antimensium — antimension.
- antimissile — relating to defensive measures against missile attack
- antimitotic — acting against mitosis
- antimoniate — (inorganic chemistry) The anion of pentavalent antimony Sb(OH)4- or any salt containing this anion. It is most commonly encountered as a complex in the drug meglumine antimoniate.
- antimonious — relating to or containing antimony
- antimonsoon — the air current above a monsoon, moving in the opposite direction
- antimusical — opposed to musical conventions
- antimutagen — any substance that acts against a mutagen
- antimycotic — That inhibits the growth of fungi; antifungal.
- antinomians — Plural form of antinomian.
- antinomical — characterized by or prone to antinomy
- antirealism — the denial of an objective reality
- antirrhinum — any scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Antirrhinum, esp the snapdragon, which have two-lipped flowers of various colours
- antisemitic — Alternative spelling of anti-Semitic.
- antismoking — intended to prevent people from smoking tobacco
- antistatism — the principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.
- antitumoral — Antitumor.
- antivitamin — a substance that inhibits the effects of a vitamin
- antonomasia — the substitution of a title or epithet for a proper name, such as his highness
- apicoectomy — a surgical procedure to remove the end of a tooth root in endodontic therapy.
- apodyterium — the changing room in an ancient Roman bathhouse
- apoliticism — the quality of being apolitical
- apomorphine — a white crystalline alkaloid, derived from morphine, that is used medicinally as an emetic, as an expectorant, and in Parkinson's disease. Formula: C17H17NO2
- apotropaism — the use of ritual or magic to ward off evil or bad luck
- appointment — The appointment of a person to a particular job is the choice of that person to do it.
- approximant — an articulation in which one articulator is close to another, but not sufficiently so to form a stop or a fricative.
- approximate — An approximate number, time, or position is close to the correct number, time, or position, but is not exact.
- apricot jam — a sweet preserve made from apricots
- aquamarines — Plural form of aquamarine.
- araeometric — relating to araeometry
- arbitrament — the decision or award made by an arbitrator upon a disputed matter
- arbitrement — the act of arbitrating; arbitration.
- archaicisms — Plural form of archaicism.
- archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
- archenemies — Plural form of archenemy.
- archimedean — of, relating to, or discovered by Archimedes.
- archnemesis — A chief nemesis.
- argumentive — argumentative
- arith-matic — (language) An extension of Grace Hopper's A-2 programming language, developed in about 1955. ARITH-MATIC was originally known as A-3, but was renamed by the marketing department of Remington Rand UNIVAC.
- arithmetics — Plural form of arithmetic.
- armentieres — a town in N France: site of battles in both World Wars. Pop: 25 273 (1999)
- arminianism — a liberal Christian movement based on the doctrines of Jacobus Arminius, that stressed free will as opposed to Calvinistic predestination
- arms akimbo — with hands on hips and elbows projecting outwards
- aromaticity — the property of certain planar cyclic conjugated molecules, esp benzene, of behaving like unsaturated molecules and undergoing substitution reactions rather than addition as a result of delocalization of electrons in the ring
- aromatizing — Present participle of aromatize.
- arraignment — Arraignment is when someone is brought before a court of law to answer a particular charge.
- arrhythmias — Plural form of arrhythmia.