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

  • amphipodous — (of certain invertebrates, such as sand hoppers) having both swimming and jumping appendages
  • amphisbaena — any worm lizard of the genus Amphisbaena
  • amphistylar — (esp of a classical temple) having a set of columns at both ends or at both sides
  • amphithemis — a son of Apollo and Acacallis.
  • amphithuron — amphithyra (def 1).
  • amphithyron — amphithyra (def 1).
  • amphitricha — bacteria that have flagella at both ends
  • amphophilic — (cytology) That can be stained with either an acidic or basic dye.
  • amphoriskos — a miniature amphora.
  • ampitheater — Misspelling of amphitheater.
  • ampitheatre — Misspelling of amphitheatre.
  • 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  • anachronism — You say that something is an anachronism when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
  • anamorphism — intense metamorphism of a rock in which high-density complex minerals are formed from simpler minerals of lower density
  • anathematic — loathsome; disgusting; hateful.
  • anemonefish — Any of the clownfish, principally in the Amphiprion genus.
  • anemophobia — an abnormal fear of draughts or windy weather
  • anguishment — Anguish.
  • animal heat — heat produced in the body of an animal by chemical changes that occur when food is assimilated
  • antheridium — the male sex organ of algae, fungi, bryophytes, and spore-bearing vascular plants, such as ferns, which produces antherozoids
  • anthomaniac — someone with an extreme fondness for flowers
  • antichamber — Obsolete form of antechamber.
  • antiheroism — (literature) The quality of being an antihero.
  • antirrhinum — any scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Antirrhinum, esp the snapdragon, which have two-lipped flowers of various colours
  • apomorphine — a white crystalline alkaloid, derived from morphine, that is used medicinally as an emetic, as an expectorant, and in Parkinson's disease. Formula: C17H17NO2
  • archaicisms — Plural form of archaicism.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • arrhythmias — Plural form of arrhythmia.
  • 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
  • aspheterism — the teaching that all property should be in common ownership and no individual should benefit from personal possession
  • asthmatical — Dated form of asthmatic.
  • athleticism — Athleticism is someone's fitness and ability to perform well at sports or other physical activities.
  • atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
  • atomic heat — the product of an element's atomic weight and its specific heat (capacity)
  • automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
  • auxochromic — any radical or group of atoms that intensifies the color of a substance.
  • azimuth bar — a device used in measuring azimuths, consisting of a bar with a sighting vane at each end,pivoted at its center, and rotating in a horizontal plane around the center of a compass.
  • azimuthally — Astronomy, Navigation. the arc of the horizon measured clockwise from the south point, in astronomy, or from the north point, in navigation, to the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon.
  • bachelorism — bachelorhood
  • badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
  • bar mitzvah — A bar mitzvah is a ceremony that takes place on the thirteenth birthday of a Jewish boy, after which he is regarded as an adult.
  • barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
  • bas mitzvah — bat mitzvah
  • basil thyme — a plant, Acinos thymoides, of the mint family, having egg-shaped leaves and purplish flowers.
  • basil-thyme — a European plant, Acinos arvensis, having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers: family Lamiaceae
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