11-letter words containing m, a, c, n
- 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
- amethocaine — The drug tetracaine.
- 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.
- ammonotelic — excreting ammonia as the main nitrogenous waste: characteristic of freshwater fishes and many aquatic invertebrates
- amoxicillin — a penicillin antibiotic used to treat a wide range of bacterial infections
- amoxycillin — Obsolete spelling of amoxicillin.
- amphicrania — (pathology) A headache affecting both sides of the head.
- amphictyony — (in ancient Greece) a religious association of states for the maintenance of temples and the cults connected with them
- 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
- anacamptics — The science of reflected light; catoptrics.
- anachronism — You say that something is an anachronism when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
- anastomotic — Anatomy. communication between blood vessels by means of collateral channels, especially when usual routes are obstructed.
- anathematic — loathsome; disgusting; hateful.
- anchorwoman — The anchorwoman on a television or radio programme, especially a news programme, is the woman who presents it.
- anchorwomen — Plural form of anchorwoman.
- and company — You can say and company after mentioning a person's name, to refer also to the people who are associated with that person.
- androconium — a scale on the forewing of certain male butterflies from which an odor attractive to females is emitted.
- anemochores — Plural form of anemochore.
- 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.
- animatronic — of, concerned with, or operated by animatronics
- anisometric — not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts or unequal measurements
- anomalistic — tending to be anomalous
- antechamber — An antechamber is a small room leading into a larger room.
- anthomaniac — someone with an extreme fondness for flowers
- antichamber — Obsolete form of antechamber.
- antiemetics — Plural form of antiemetic.
- antifascism — opposition to fascism
- antimitotic — acting against mitosis
- antimusical — opposed to musical conventions
- antimycotic — That inhibits the growth of fungi; antifungal.
- antinomical — characterized by or prone to antinomy
- antisemitic — Alternative spelling of anti-Semitic.
- appeachment — an accusation or criminal charge
- 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.
- 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
- astromancer — divination by means of the stars.
- 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.
- atlanticism — advocacy of close cooperation in military, political, and economic matters between Western Europe, esp the UK, and the US
- atomtronics — (physics) The design, manufacture and study of analogs of electronics using atoms (especially Bose-Einstein condensates) at low temperature.
- attachments — Plural form of attachment.