9-letter words containing a, n, i, m
- anglicism — a word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to the English language, esp as spoken in England
- angoumois — a region and former province of W France: famous as source of cognac.
- anguiform — shaped like a snake
- aniconism — the belief in not using or worshipping images of deities
- animalian — any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well-defined shape and usually limited growth, can move voluntarily, actively acquire food and digest it internally, and have sensory and nervous systems that allow them to respond rapidly to stimuli: some classification schemes also include protozoa and certain other single-celled eukaryotes that have motility and animallike nutritional modes.
- animalier — a painter or sculptor of animal subjects, esp a member of a group of early 19th-century French sculptors who specialized in realistic figures of animals, usually in bronze
- animalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of animalize.
- animalism — satisfaction of or preoccupation with physical matters; sensuality
- animalist — a person driven by animal appetites; sensualist.
- animality — the animal side of man, as opposed to the intellectual or spiritual
- animalize — to rouse to brutality or sensuality or make brutal or sensual
- animately — In an animate way.
- animatics — Plural form of animatic.
- animating — Present participle of animate.
- animation — Animation is the process of making films in which drawings or puppets appear to move.
- animatism — the belief that inanimate objects have consciousness
- animative — Tending to animate; causing animation.
- animators — Plural form of animator.
- animatron — An animatronic robot.
- animistic — the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess souls.
- animosity — Animosity is a strong feeling of dislike and anger. Animosities are feelings of this kind.
- anisogamy — a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar, either in size alone or in size and form
- anomalies — a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form. Synonyms: abnormality, exception, peculiarity.
- anomalism — the state or quality of being anomalous.
- anonymise — (transitive) To render anonymous; especially to remove data that would establish the identity of a person.
- anonymity — the condition or fact of being anonymous
- anonymize — to carry out or organize in such a way as to preserve anonymity
- anorchism — Anorchia.
- anoxaemia — a deficiency in the amount of oxygen in the arterial blood
- anthemion — a floral design, used esp in ancient Greek and Roman architecture and decoration, usually consisting of honeysuckle, lotus, or palmette leaf motifs
- anthodium — the flower head or bracts of a composite plant, as in daisies or asters
- anthurium — any of various tropical American aroid plants constituting the genus Anthurium, many of which are cultivated as house plants for their showy foliage and their flowers, which are borne in a long-stalked spike surrounded by a flaring heart-shaped white or red bract
- anti-atom — an atom composed of antiparticles, in which the nucleus contains antiprotons with orbiting positrons
- antiarmor — (military) Designed for attacking armored vehicles, such as tanks and armored personnel carriers.
- antiatoms — Plural form of antiatom.
- anticrime — preventing or fighting crime
- antihuman — opposed to or hostile to humanity, inhuman
- antimacho — opposed to macho attitudes
- antimanic — preventing, curing, or palliating the symptoms of mania.
- antimeres — Plural form of antimere.
- antimeson — The antiparticle corresponding to a meson.
- antimeter — (obsolete) A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles.
- antimoney — Opposing the concept of money.
- antimonic — of or containing antimony in the pentavalent state
- antimonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the monovalent group SbO-
- antimoral — Opposing or countering moral behaviour.
- antimusic — any form of music intended to overthrow traditional conventions and expectations
- antimycin — an antibiotic drug active against various fungi
- antinomic — opposition between one law, principle, rule, etc., and another.
- antiprism — A polyhedron composed of two parallel copies of some particular polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles.