11-letter words containing c, l, a, m
- amphiphilic — relating to or characterizing an amphiphile
- amphophilic — (cytology) That can be stained with either an acidic or basic dye.
- amplexicaul — (of some sessile leaves, stipules, etc) having an enlarged base that encircles the stem
- 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
- anglicanism — Anglicanism is the beliefs and practices of the Church of England, and of the churches related to it.
- animalcular — Of, relating to, or resembling, animalcules.
- animalcules — Plural form of animalcule.
- animalculum — animalcule.
- animalistic — If you describe a person or their behaviour as animalistic, you mean that they do not try to hide or control their basic feelings and physical needs.
- anomalistic — tending to be anomalous
- antimusical — opposed to musical conventions
- antinomical — characterized by or prone to antinomy
- apoliticism — the quality of being apolitical
- armour-clad — wearing armour
- aschelminth — in some systems of classification, any of a phylum (Aschelminthes) of wormlike animals, including rotifers, gastrotrichs, gordian worms, and nematodes: these animals are usually considered to be in separate phyla
- assemblance — the action or process of gathering or congregating
- asthmatical — Dated form of asthmatic.
- 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.
- athleticism — Athleticism is someone's fitness and ability to perform well at sports or other physical activities.
- atlanticism — advocacy of close cooperation in military, political, and economic matters between Western Europe, esp the UK, and the US
- atomic pile — nuclear reactor
- 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.
- autonomical — autonomous.
- avicularium — a protective zooid of a bryozoan colony, having movable jaws that can be snapped shut.
- axiomatical — Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; characterized by axioms.
- bachelordom — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- bacillaemia — the presence of bacilli in the blood
- bacilliform — shaped like a rod
- baume scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the specific gravity of liquids. 1 degree Baumé is equal to 144.3((s–1)/s), where s is specific gravity
- 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
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- 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
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- black bream — a dark-coloured food and game fish, Acanthopagrus australis, of E Australian seas
- black cumin — a Eurasian herb, Nigella sativa, having pungent aromatic seeds used as a spice, but unrelated to cumin.
- black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
- black magic — magic used for evil purposes by invoking the power of the devil
- black maple — a tree, Acer saccharum nigrum, of eastern and central North America, having furrowed, blackish bark and yellow-green flowers.
- black maria — a police van for transporting prisoners
- black medic — a widespread weedy annual plant (Medicago lupulina) of the pea family, with small yellow flowers and black seed pods, sometimes grown for forage
- black metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extremely nihilistic and satanic lyrics, a repetitive drum beat rapidly alternating betweeen the snare and bass drum (a blast beat), and the ghoulish make-up worn by performers (corpse paint)
- black molly — a jet-black molly, a color form especially of Poecilia latipinna or P. sphenops, popular as an aquarium fish.
- black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
- black stump — a long way off
- black vomit — vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever
- blastematic — blastemal