11-letter words containing m, i, d
- almond milk — a creamy mixture of blanched almonds, sugar, and water, blended to a smooth paste and sieved.
- almoravides — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa from 1056 to 1147.
- ambassadrix — (rare) an ambassadress.
- amber fluid — beer
- ambuscading — Present participle of ambuscade.
- ameliorated — Simple past tense and past participle of ameliorate.
- amenity bed — (in Britain) a hospital bed whose occupant receives free treatment but pays for nonmedical advantages, such as privacy
- 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.
- ammishaddai — the father of Ahiezer, the Danite. Num. 1:12; 2:25.
- amontillado — a medium dry Spanish sherry, not as pale in colour as a fino
- amphidromia — a family festival in ancient Athens in honor of the birth of a child, during which the child received its name.
- amphipodous — (of certain invertebrates, such as sand hoppers) having both swimming and jumping appendages
- amyloidosis — the deposition of amyloid in various tissues of the body, as occurs in certain chronic infections
- anaximander — 611–547 bc, Greek philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who believed the first principle of the world to be the Infinite
- androconium — a scale on the forewing of certain male butterflies from which an odor attractive to females is emitted.
- anno domini — advancing old age
- antependium — a covering hung over the front of an altar
- antheridium — the male sex organ of algae, fungi, bryophytes, and spore-bearing vascular plants, such as ferns, which produces antherozoids
- antidumping — a method of trade protection intended to stop other countries dumping goods cheaply on a domestic market
- antijudaism — Alternative form of anti-Judaism.
- apodyterium — the changing room in an ancient Roman bathhouse
- archimedean — of, relating to, or discovered by Archimedes.
- assimilated — Simple past tense and past participle of assimilate.
- assimulated — Simple past tense and past participle of assimulate.
- audiometers — Plural form of audiometer.
- audiometric — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- auditoriums — Plural form of auditorium.
- autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
- automatized — to make automatic.
- baby-minder — a person who is paid to look after other people's babies or very young children
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
- barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
- barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
- barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
- beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
- bed molding — a molding below a projecting part, esp. between the corona and frieze
- bedevilment — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- bedizenment — That which bedizens.
- behind time — late
- bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
- bid welcome — to receive with cordial greetings
- biedermeier — of or relating to a decorative and furnishing style in mid-19th-century Germany, characterized by solidity and conventionality
- big diomede — See under Diomede Islands.
- bindheimite — a mineral, hydrous antimonate of lead, resulting from the alteration of lead antimony ores.
- biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
- biomedicine — the medical study of the effects of unusual environmental stress on human beings, esp in connection with space travel
- biomodeling — the mathematical modeling of biological reactions.
- bipyramidal — relating to a symmetrical structure consisting of two pyramids
- black medic — a widespread weedy annual plant (Medicago lupulina) of the pea family, with small yellow flowers and black seed pods, sometimes grown for forage