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11-letter words containing d, i, a, m

  • almond milk — a creamy mixture of blanched almonds, sugar, and water, blended to a smooth paste and sieved.
  • almoravides — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa from 1056 to 1147.
  • ambassadrix — (rare) an ambassadress.
  • amber fluid — beer
  • ambuscading — Present participle of ambuscade.
  • ameliorated — Simple past tense and past participle of ameliorate.
  • amenity bed — (in Britain) a hospital bed whose occupant receives free treatment but pays for nonmedical advantages, such as privacy
  • amino acids — any of a class of organic compounds that contains at least one amino group, –NH 2 , and one carboxyl group, –COOH: the alpha-amino acids, RCH(NH 2)COOH, are the building blocks from which proteins are constructed.
  • ammishaddai — the father of Ahiezer, the Danite. Num. 1:12; 2:25.
  • amontillado — a medium dry Spanish sherry, not as pale in colour as a fino
  • amphidromia — a family festival in ancient Athens in honor of the birth of a child, during which the child received its name.
  • amphipodous — (of certain invertebrates, such as sand hoppers) having both swimming and jumping appendages
  • amyloidosis — the deposition of amyloid in various tissues of the body, as occurs in certain chronic infections
  • anaximander — 611–547 bc, Greek philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who believed the first principle of the world to be the Infinite
  • androconium — a scale on the forewing of certain male butterflies from which an odor attractive to females is emitted.
  • anno domini — advancing old age
  • antependium — a covering hung over the front of an altar
  • antheridium — the male sex organ of algae, fungi, bryophytes, and spore-bearing vascular plants, such as ferns, which produces antherozoids
  • antidumping — a method of trade protection intended to stop other countries dumping goods cheaply on a domestic market
  • antijudaism — Alternative form of anti-Judaism.
  • apodyterium — the changing room in an ancient Roman bathhouse
  • archimedean — of, relating to, or discovered by Archimedes.
  • assimilated — Simple past tense and past participle of assimilate.
  • assimulated — Simple past tense and past participle of assimulate.
  • audiometers — Plural form of audiometer.
  • audiometric — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
  • auditoriums — Plural form of auditorium.
  • autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
  • automatized — to make automatic.
  • baby-minder — a person who is paid to look after other people's babies or very young children
  • badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
  • bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
  • barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
  • barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
  • barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
  • beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
  • bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
  • biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
  • bipyramidal — relating to a symmetrical structure consisting of two pyramids
  • 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
  • blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
  • bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
  • bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
  • brand image — The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising.
  • brandy mint — peppermint.
  • bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
  • bromic acid — a colourless unstable water-soluble liquid used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: HBrO3
  • bumpsadaisy — an exclamation said to a child who has fallen down
  • cacodemonic — relating to cacodemons
  • caddis worm — the wormlike larva of the caddis fly that usually lives in fresh water in an elongated case made of twigs, grains of sand, etc. cemented together with silk that it secretes: commonly used as bait by anglers
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