11-letter words containing i, m, u
- amur privet — a northern Chinese shrub, Ligustrum amurense, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and white flowers.
- amusingness — the quality or state of being amusing
- amusiveness — the quality of being amusive
- androconium — a scale on the forewing of certain male butterflies from which an odor attractive to females is emitted.
- angiomatous — a benign tumor consisting chiefly of dilated or newly formed blood vessels (hemangioma) or lymph vessels (lymphangioma)
- anguishment — Anguish.
- animalcular — Of, relating to, or resembling, animalcules.
- animalcules — Plural form of animalcule.
- animalculum — animalcule.
- anisogamous — reproducing by the fusion of dissimilar gametes or individuals, usually differing in size.
- anisomerous — (of flowers) having floral whorls that differ in the number of their parts
- 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.
- antimasques — Plural form of antimasque.
- antimensium — antimension.
- antimonious — relating to or containing antimony
- antimusical — opposed to musical conventions
- antimutagen — any substance that acts against a mutagen
- antirrhinum — any scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Antirrhinum, esp the snapdragon, which have two-lipped flowers of various colours
- antitumoral — Antitumor.
- apodyterium — the changing room in an ancient Roman bathhouse
- aquamarines — Plural form of aquamarine.
- archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
- argumentive — argumentative
- arum family — the plant family Araceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having numerous tiny flowers on a fleshy spike above or sheathed by a large spathe, and including the anthurium, calla lily, jack-in-the-pulpit, and philodendron.
- aspergillum — a brush or perforated container for sprinkling holy water
- aspersorium — a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
- assimulated — Simple past tense and past participle of assimulate.
- assimulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of assimulate.
- assumptions — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
- audiometers — Plural form of audiometer.
- audiometric — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- auditoriums — Plural form of auditorium.
- aunt jemima — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a black woman considered by other black people to be subservient to or to curry favor with white people.
- auto-immune — Auto-immune describes medical conditions in which normal cells are attacked by the body's immune system.
- autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
- autoerotism — pleasurable sensations or tensions arising in the erogenous body zones without external stimulation
- 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.
- automatisms — Plural form of automatism.
- automatized — to make automatic.
- automatizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of automatize.
- automobiles — Plural form of automobile.
- automobilia — items connected with cars and motoring of interest to the collector
- automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
- autonomical — autonomous.
- autopotamic — (of an organism) living or growing only in flowing freshwater streams.
- autotoxemia — autointoxication