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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
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