11-letter words containing m, a
- aircraftman — a serviceman of the most junior rank in the RAF
- aircraftmen — Plural form of aircraftman.
- alarm bells — If you say that something sets alarm bells ringing, you mean that it makes people feel worried or concerned about something.
- alarm clock — An alarm clock is a clock that you can set to make a noise so that it wakes you up at a particular time.
- alaska time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
- albedometer — an instrument that measures the albedo of a surface.
- album chart — a regular listing of bestselling record albums
- album cover — the front of the outer packaging of a record album, usually decorated and showing its title and the name of the artist
- albumenized — Simple past tense and past participle of albumenize.
- albuminemia — (pathology) The (normal) presence of albumin in the blood.
- albuminized — Simple past tense and past participle of albuminize.
- albuminoids — any of a class of simple proteins, as keratin, gelatin, or collagen, that are insoluble in all neutral solvents; scleroprotein.
- albuminuria — the presence of albumin in the urine
- albuminuric — related to the state of albuminuria
- 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.
- alchemizing — Present participle of alchemize.
- aldermanity — the body of aldermen
- aldermaston — a village in S England, in West Berkshire unitary authority, Berkshire, SW of Reading: site of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment and starting point of the Aldermaston marches (1958–63), organized by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Pop: 927 (2001)
- alembicated — (of a literary style) excessively refined; precious
- aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
- alexithymia — an inability to recognize, understand, and describe emotions
- algesimeter — an instrument for determining the sensitiveness of the skin to a painful stimulus.
- algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
- alimentally — So as to serve for nourishment or food.
- alismaceous — of or relating to the genus Alisma
- alkalimeter — an apparatus for determining the concentration of alkalis in solution
- alkalimetry — determination of the amount of alkali or base in a solution, measured by an alkalimeter or by volumetric analysis
- allelomorph — allele
- allemontite — a white to gray, brittle mineral, antimony arsenide, AsSb, occurring in reniform masses: formerly used as an ore of arsenic.
- allomorphic — any of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound.
- allotropism — a property of certain elements, as carbon, sulfur, and phosphorus, of existing in two or more distinct forms; allomorphism.
- allow me to — Some people use Allow me to... as a way of introducing something that they want to say or do.
- allurements — Plural form of allurement.
- alma-tadema — Sir Lawrence. 1836–1912, Dutch-English painter of studies of Greek and Roman life
- almond bark — a type of candy consisting of sheets or fairly thick pieces of semisweet or milk chocolate to which almonds or almond pieces have been added.
- almond cake — the residue of almonds from which oil has been expressed.
- almond meal — the meal obtained by pulverizing blanched almonds, used chiefly in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics.
- almond milk — a creamy mixture of blanched almonds, sugar, and water, blended to a smooth paste and sieved.
- almond tree — a small widely cultivated rosaceous tree, Prunus amygdalus, that is native to W Asia and has pink flowers and a green fruit containing an edible nutlike seed
- almond-eyed — having narrow oval eyes
- almoravides — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa from 1056 to 1147.
- alpha mummy — a woman who excels in the art of motherhood
- alpha-omega — the beginning and the end. Rev. 1:8.
- altazimuths — Plural form of altazimuth.
- altocumulus — a globular cloud at an intermediate height of about 2400 to 6000 metres (8000 to 20 000 feet)
- alzheimer's — a common form of dementia, believed to be caused by changes in the brain, usually beginning in late middle age, characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability, and progressive loss of mental ability.
- amabokoboko — the official name for the Springbok rugby team
- amalgamable — that can be amalgamated
- amalgamated — Combined from two or more entities into one specific entity whilst retaining the defining characteristics of the original source entities.
- amalgamates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amalgamate.