11-letter words containing m, a
- 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.
- argand lamp — an oil lamp with a chimney, having a tubular wick that permits air to reach the center of the flame.
- argumentive — argumentative
- 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.
- arm-wrestle — (of two people) to sit facing each other with the elbows resting on a table and clasping hands with each other, each trying to force the other's arm flat onto the table while keeping his or her own elbow touching the table
- armageddons — Plural form of armageddon.
- armed guard — a guard who is carrying a gun
- armentieres — a town in N France: site of battles in both World Wars. Pop: 25 273 (1999)
- arminianism — a liberal Christian movement based on the doctrines of Jacobus Arminius, that stressed free will as opposed to Calvinistic predestination
- armor plate — a protective covering of specially hardened steel plates, as on a tank
- armorbearer — a person who carried the armor or weapons of a warrior
- armored car — any of various vehicles covered with armor plate, as a truck for carrying money to or from a bank
- 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.
- armour-clad — wearing armour
- arms akimbo — with hands on hips and elbows projecting outwards
- arms dealer — a person or business that sells weapons and other military equipment
- 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
- 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
- aromatizing — Present participle of aromatize.
- arraignment — Arraignment is when someone is brought before a court of law to answer a particular charge.
- arrangement — Arrangements are plans and preparations which you make so that something will happen or be possible.
- arrangments — Plural form of arrangement.
- arrhythmias — Plural form of arrhythmia.
- artemisinin — a drug obtained from the plant genus Artemisia and used to treat malaria
- arteriogram — an X-ray of a vein or artery which has been injected with dye in order to diagnose obstruction or damage
- arteriotomy — the surgical cutting of an artery or a cut made in an artery
- arthrectomy — surgical excision of a joint
- arthrograms — Plural form of arthrogram.
- arthur monk — (James) Arthur ("Art") born 1957, U.S. football player.
- 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.
- arylamines' — any of a group of amines in which one or more of the hydrogen atoms of ammonia are replaced by aromatic groups.
- asbestiform — having the look or structure of asbestos
- 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).
- ashamedness — the condition of feeling ashamed
- aspergillum — a brush or perforated container for sprinkling holy water
- aspersorium — a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
- aspheterism — the teaching that all property should be in common ownership and no individual should benefit from personal possession
- assemblages — Plural form of assemblage.
- assemblance — the action or process of gathering or congregating
- assemblyman — In the United States, an assemblyman is an elected member of an assembly of people who make decisions and laws.
- assemblymen — Plural form of assemblyman.
- assessments — Plural form of assessment.
- assignments — Plural form of assignment.
- assimilable — capable of being assimilated.
- assimilated — Simple past tense and past participle of assimilate.