11-letter words containing m, a, h, r
- anthroponym — a personal name.
- 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
- antler moth — a European noctuid moth, Cerapteryx (or Charaeas) graminis, that has white antler-like markings on the forewings and produces larvae that periodically cause great damage to pastures and grasslands
- 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
- araneomorph — (zoology) Any of the Araneomorphae, a suborder of spiders whose fangs cross with a pinching action.
- 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.
- armory show — an international art show held in a New York City armory in 1913: considered a landmark in the public and critical acceptance of modern art.
- arms-length — not closely or intimately connected or associated; distant; remote: an arm's-length relationship.
- arnhem land — a region of N Australia in the N Northern Territory, large areas of which are reserved for native Australians
- arrhythmias — Plural form of arrhythmia.
- arthrectomy — surgical excision of a joint
- arthrograms — Plural form of arthrogram.
- arthur monk — (James) Arthur ("Art") born 1957, U.S. football player.
- aspheterism — the teaching that all property should be in common ownership and no individual should benefit from personal possession
- atherectomy — the removal of plaque from an artery by means of a tiny rotating cutting blade inserted through a catheter.
- athermanous — capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation
- atmosphered — having an intellectual or psychological climate or feeling
- atmospheres — Plural form of atmosphere.
- atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
- 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.
- baby-mother — a young mother who has been abandoned by the baby's father just before or after the birth
- bachelordom — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- bad homburg — a city in W central Germany on the S slope of the Taunus Mountains, near Frankfurt.
- 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.
- bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
- bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
- beachcomber — A beachcomber is someone who spends their time wandering along beaches looking for things they can use.
- beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
- beam search — (algorithm) An optimisation of the best first search graph search algorithm where only a predetermined number of paths are kept as candidates. The number of paths is the "width of the beam". If more paths than this are generated, the worst paths are discarded. This reduces the space requirements of best first search.
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- benchwarmer — a player who is usually on the bench; reserve
- beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure