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- anachronism — You say that something is an anachronism when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.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