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11-letter words containing m, i, n, c

  • 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
  • anacamptics — The science of reflected light; catoptrics.
  • anachronism — You say that something is an anachronism when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
  • anastomotic — Anatomy. communication between blood vessels by means of collateral channels, especially when usual routes are obstructed.
  • anathematic — loathsome; disgusting; hateful.
  • androconium — a scale on the forewing of certain male butterflies from which an odor attractive to females is emitted.
  • anglicanism — Anglicanism is the beliefs and practices of the Church of England, and of the churches related to it.
  • animalcular — Of, relating to, or resembling, animalcules.
  • animalcules — Plural form of animalcule.
  • animalculum — animalcule.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
  • archenemies — Plural form of archenemy.
  • archimedean — of, relating to, or discovered by Archimedes.
  • archnemesis — A chief nemesis.
  • 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
  • asynclitism — The position of a baby in the uterus such that the head is presenting first, tilted to the shoulder and thus no longer in line with the birth canal.
  • atlanticism — advocacy of close cooperation in military, political, and economic matters between Western Europe, esp the UK, and the US
  • atomtronics — (physics) The design, manufacture and study of analogs of electronics using atoms (especially Bose-Einstein condensates) at low temperature.
  • autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
  • autonomical — autonomous.
  • axonometric — of or relating to a projection method of representing three-dimensional objects on a flat surface
  • basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
  • bewitchment — the state of being bewitched
  • bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
  • bicomponent — a fibre composed of two compounds
  • 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
  • bismarckian — of, relating to, or resembling Otto von Bismarck, especially in respect to his aggressiveness in politics and diplomacy.
  • black cumin — a Eurasian herb, Nigella sativa, having pungent aromatic seeds used as a spice, but unrelated to cumin.
  • boring clam — piddock
  • brahminical — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
  • branchiform — shaped like a gill.
  • brickmaking — the activity of making bricks
  • buckjumping — a competitive event for buckjumpers in a rodeo
  • cacodemonic — relating to cacodemons
  • calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
  • calcimining — Present participle of calcimine.
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