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11-letter words containing c, i, m, o

  • amphophilic — (cytology) That can be stained with either an acidic or basic dye.
  • 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
  • amyotrophic — (medicine) Characterized by atrophy of the muscles.
  • anachronism — You say that something is an anachronism when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
  • anastomotic — Anatomy. communication between blood vessels by means of collateral channels, especially when usual routes are obstructed.
  • androconium — a scale on the forewing of certain male butterflies from which an odor attractive to females is emitted.
  • animatronic — of, concerned with, or operated by animatronics
  • anisometric — not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts or unequal measurements
  • anomalistic — tending to be anomalous
  • anthomaniac — someone with an extreme fondness for flowers
  • antimitotic — acting against mitosis
  • antimycotic — That inhibits the growth of fungi; antifungal.
  • antinomical — characterized by or prone to antinomy
  • apicoectomy — a surgical procedure to remove the end of a tooth root in endodontic therapy.
  • apoliticism — the quality of being apolitical
  • apricot jam — a sweet preserve made from apricots
  • araeometric — relating to araeometry
  • archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
  • 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
  • astrometric — (astronomy) of or relating to astrometry.
  • atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
  • atomic bomb — An atomic bomb or an atom bomb is a bomb that causes an explosion by a sudden release of energy that results from splitting atoms.
  • atomic heat — the product of an element's atomic weight and its specific heat (capacity)
  • atomic mass — the mass of an isotope of an element in atomic mass units
  • atomic pile — nuclear reactor
  • atomtronics — (physics) The design, manufacture and study of analogs of electronics using atoms (especially Bose-Einstein condensates) at low temperature.
  • audiometric — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
  • autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
  • automagical — (of a usually complicated technical or computer process) done, operating, or happening in a way that is hidden from or not understood by the user, and in that sense, apparently “magical”: I just downloaded an automagical update to my word processing software that somehow fixed the problems.
  • automatical — Archaic form of automatic.
  • automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
  • autonomical — autonomous.
  • autopotamic — (of an organism) living or growing only in flowing freshwater streams.
  • auxochromic — any radical or group of atoms that intensifies the color of a substance.
  • axiomatical — Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; characterized by axioms.
  • axonometric — of or relating to a projection method of representing three-dimensional objects on a flat surface
  • bachelorism — bachelorhood
  • bacilliform — shaped like a rod
  • bambocciata — a genre painting of usually small size produced in Rome in the 17th century.
  • biblioclasm — a person who mutilates or destroys books.
  • bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
  • bicomponent — a fibre composed of two compounds
  • bid welcome — to receive with cordial greetings
  • bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
  • bimorphemic — pertaining to two morphemes
  • biochemical — Biochemical changes, reactions, and mechanisms relate to the chemical processes that happen in living things.
  • bioclimatic — concerning the relations between climate and living organisms
  • biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
  • biomedicine — the medical study of the effects of unusual environmental stress on human beings, esp in connection with space travel
  • biometrical — pertaining to biometry
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