11-letter words containing m, a, t, c
- aircraftmen — Plural form of aircraftman.
- album chart — a regular listing of bestselling record albums
- alchemistic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alembicated — (of a literary style) excessively refined; precious
- algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
- altocumulus — a globular cloud at an intermediate height of about 2400 to 6000 metres (8000 to 20 000 feet)
- ambulocetus — A large carnivorous amphibian (Ambulocetus natans).
- amentaceous — of or like an ament or aments
- americanist — a person who studies some aspect of America, such as its history or languages
- amethocaine — The drug tetracaine.
- amicability — characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable: an amicable settlement.
- ammonotelic — excreting ammonia as the main nitrogenous waste: characteristic of freshwater fishes and many aquatic invertebrates
- amoebocytes — Plural form of amoebocyte.
- amphibiotic — having an aquatic larval form and a terrestrial adult form, as amphibians
- amphictyony — (in ancient Greece) a religious association of states for the maintenance of temples and the cults connected with them
- amphipathic — of or relating to a molecule that possesses both hydrophobic and hydrophilic elements, such as are found in detergents, or phospholipids of biological membranes
- amphitricha — bacteria that have flagella at both ends
- 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
- amyotrophic — (medicine) Characterized by atrophy of the muscles.
- anacamptics — The science of reflected light; catoptrics.
- anastomotic — Anatomy. communication between blood vessels by means of collateral channels, especially when usual routes are obstructed.
- anathematic — loathsome; disgusting; hateful.
- 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.
- apicoectomy — a surgical procedure to remove the end of a tooth root in endodontic therapy.
- apoliticism — the quality of being apolitical
- appeachment — an accusation or criminal charge
- apricot jam — a sweet preserve made from apricots
- araeometric — relating to araeometry
- archeometry — the branch of archaeology that deals with the dating of archaeological specimens through specific techniques, as radiocarbon dating and amino-acid dating.
- 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.
- aromaticity — the property of certain planar cyclic conjugated molecules, esp benzene, of behaving like unsaturated molecules and undergoing substitution reactions rather than addition as a result of delocalization of electrons in the ring
- arthrectomy — surgical excision of a joint
- 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
- ascomycetes — any fungus of the phylum Ascomycota (or class Ascomycetes), including the molds and truffles, characterized by bearing the sexual spores in a sac (as distinguished from basidiomycete).
- asthmatical — Dated form of asthmatic.
- astrocytoma — a tumour of the nervous system which originates in and consists mainly of astrocytes