11-letter words containing c, r, a, m
- americanism — An Americanism is an expression that is typical of people living in the United States of America.
- americanist — a person who studies some aspect of America, such as its history or languages
- americanize — to make or become American in outlook, attitudes, etc
- amici prism — a compound prism that spreads out incident white light into a spectrum but produces no deviation of the central color of the dispersed beam.
- amphibrachs — Plural form of amphibrach.
- amphichiral — (mathematics) superimposable on its mirror image; achiral.
- amphichroic — producing two colours, one on reacting with an acid, the other on reacting with a base
- amphicrania — (pathology) A headache affecting both sides of the head.
- amphimacers — Plural form of amphimacer.
- amphitricha — bacteria that have flagella at both ends
- 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- anachronism — You say that something is an anachronism when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
- anchorwoman — The anchorwoman on a television or radio programme, especially a news programme, is the woman who presents it.
- anchorwomen — Plural form of anchorwoman.
- androconium — a scale on the forewing of certain male butterflies from which an odor attractive to females is emitted.
- anemochores — Plural form of anemochore.
- animalcular — Of, relating to, or resembling, animalcules.
- animatronic — of, concerned with, or operated by animatronics
- anisometric — not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts or unequal measurements
- antechamber — An antechamber is a small room leading into a larger room.
- antichamber — Obsolete form of antechamber.
- apricot jam — a sweet preserve made from apricots
- araeometric — relating to araeometry
- arcade game — An arcade game is a computer game of the type that is often played in amusement arcades.
- archaicisms — Plural form of archaicism.
- archdukedom — the territory ruled by an archduke or archduchess
- archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
- archenemies — Plural form of archenemy.
- archeometry — the branch of archaeology that deals with the dating of archaeological specimens through specific techniques, as radiocarbon dating and amino-acid dating.
- archimedean — of, relating to, or discovered by Archimedes.
- archnemesis — A chief nemesis.
- arith-matic — (language) An extension of Grace Hopper's A-2 programming language, developed in about 1955. ARITH-MATIC was originally known as A-3, but was renamed by the marketing department of Remington Rand UNIVAC.
- arithmetics — Plural form of arithmetic.
- armored car — any of various vehicles covered with armor plate, as a truck for carrying money to or from a bank
- armour-clad — wearing armour
- 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
- arthrectomy — surgical excision of a joint
- astrocytoma — a tumour of the nervous system which originates in and consists mainly of astrocytes
- astromancer — divination by means of the stars.
- astrometric — (astronomy) of or relating to astrometry.
- atherectomy — the removal of plaque from an artery by means of a tiny rotating cutting blade inserted through a catheter.
- atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
- 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.
- austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
- automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
- auxochromic — any radical or group of atoms that intensifies the color of a substance.
- avicularium — a protective zooid of a bryozoan colony, having movable jaws that can be snapped shut.
- axonometric — of or relating to a projection method of representing three-dimensional objects on a flat surface
- bachelordom — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood