11-letter words containing a, m, y
- ampullosity — pretentious, turgid, or bombastic use of language
- amyloidosis — the deposition of amyloid in various tissues of the body, as occurs in certain chronic infections
- amylopectin — the major component of starch (about 80 per cent), consisting of branched chains of glucose units. It is insoluble and gives a red-brown colour with iodine
- amyloplasts — Plural form of amyloplast.
- amyotrophic — (medicine) Characterized by atrophy of the muscles.
- and company — You can say and company after mentioning a person's name, to refer also to the people who are associated with that person.
- anemography — the technique of recording wind measurements
- animatingly — in a quickening, stirring or energizing manner
- anomalously — deviating from or inconsistent with the common order, form, or rule; irregular; abnormal: Advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe.
- anonymising — Present participle of anonymise.
- anonymities — Plural form of anonymity.
- anonymizers — Plural form of anonymizer.
- anonymosity — (rare) The state of being anonymous.
- anonymously — without any name acknowledged, as that of author, contributor, or the like: an anonymous letter to the editor; an anonymous donation.
- anthroponym — a personal name.
- anti-enzyme — a substance that inhibits or counteracts the action of an enzyme.
- anti-family — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
- antimycotic — That inhibits the growth of fungi; antifungal.
- apicoectomy — a surgical procedure to remove the end of a tooth root in endodontic therapy.
- apodyterium — the changing room in an ancient Roman bathhouse
- apogamously — in an apogamous manner
- arakan yoma — a mountain range in Myanmar, between the Irrawaddy River and the W coast: forms a barrier between Myanmar and India; teak forests
- archeometry — the branch of archaeology that deals with the dating of archaeological specimens through specific techniques, as radiocarbon dating and amino-acid dating.
- armory show — an international art show held in a New York City armory in 1913: considered a landmark in the public and critical acceptance of modern art.
- 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
- arrhythmias — Plural form of arrhythmia.
- arteriotomy — the surgical cutting of an artery or a cut made in an artery
- arthrectomy — surgical excision of a joint
- arum family — the plant family Araceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having numerous tiny flowers on a fleshy spike above or sheathed by a large spathe, and including the anthurium, calla lily, jack-in-the-pulpit, and philodendron.
- arylamines' — any of a group of amines in which one or more of the hydrogen atoms of ammonia are replaced by aromatic groups.
- ascomycetes — any fungus of the phylum Ascomycota (or class Ascomycetes), including the molds and truffles, characterized by bearing the sexual spores in a sac (as distinguished from basidiomycete).
- assemblyman — In the United States, an assemblyman is an elected member of an assembly of people who make decisions and laws.
- assemblymen — Plural form of assemblyman.
- astrocytoma — a tumour of the nervous system which originates in and consists mainly of astrocytes
- asymmetries — Plural form of asymmetry.
- asynclitism — The position of a baby in the uterus such that the head is presenting first, tilted to the shoulder and thus no longer in line with the birth canal.
- at any time — If something could happen at any time, it is possible that it will happen very soon, though nobody can predict exactly when.
- atherectomy — the removal of plaque from an artery by means of a tiny rotating cutting blade inserted through a catheter.
- attorneydom — the state or power of being an attorney
- attorneyism — the slyness and cleverness associated with attorneys
- austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
- autoantonym — (rare) A word that has two opposing meanings.
- autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
- autosomally — in the manner of an autosome
- axisymmetry — any symmetry formed around an axis
- azimuthally — Astronomy, Navigation. the arc of the horizon measured clockwise from the south point, in astronomy, or from the north point, in navigation, to the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon.
- baby boomer — A baby boomer is someone who was born during a baby boom, especially during the years after the end of the Second World War.
- baby-boomer — a person born during a baby boom, especially one born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1965.
- baby-minder — a person who is paid to look after other people's babies or very young children
- baby-mother — a young mother who has been abandoned by the baby's father just before or after the birth