11-letter words containing m, o, i, r, a
- amobarbital — a drug with sedative, hypnotic, and analgesic properties used to relieve insomnia and control convulsions
- amortizable — Finance. to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), especially by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund. to write off a cost of (an asset) gradually.
- amphichroic — producing two colours, one on reacting with an acid, the other on reacting with a base
- amphidromia — a family festival in ancient Athens in honor of the birth of a child, during which the child received its name.
- amphigories — Plural form of amphigory.
- amphikaryon — a diploid nucleus.
- amphithuron — amphithyra (def 1).
- amphithyron — amphithyra (def 1).
- amphoriskos — a miniature amphora.
- amyotrophic — (medicine) Characterized by atrophy of the muscles.
- anachronism — You say that something is an anachronism when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
- anamorphism — intense metamorphism of a rock in which high-density complex minerals are formed from simpler minerals of lower density
- androconium — a scale on the forewing of certain male butterflies from which an odor attractive to females is emitted.
- animatronic — of, concerned with, or operated by animatronics
- anisomerous — (of flowers) having floral whorls that differ in the number of their parts
- anisometric — not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts or unequal measurements
- anonymizers — Plural form of anonymizer.
- antenniform — shaped like an antenna
- anti-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- anti-reform — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- antiheroism — (literature) The quality of being an antihero.
- antitumoral — Antitumor.
- apodyterium — the changing room in an ancient Roman bathhouse
- apomorphine — a white crystalline alkaloid, derived from morphine, that is used medicinally as an emetic, as an expectorant, and in Parkinson's disease. Formula: C17H17NO2
- apotropaism — the use of ritual or magic to ward off evil or bad luck
- approximant — an articulation in which one articulator is close to another, but not sufficiently so to form a stop or a fricative.
- approximate — An approximate number, time, or position is close to the correct number, time, or position, but is not exact.
- apricot jam — a sweet preserve made from apricots
- araeometric — relating to araeometry
- archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
- arms akimbo — with hands on hips and elbows projecting outwards
- 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.
- 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
- asbestiform — having the look or structure of asbestos
- aspersorium — a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
- assimilator — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- astrometric — (astronomy) of or relating to astrometry.
- astronomize — to practise or study astronomy or engage in astronomical matters
- atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
- atomtronics — (physics) The design, manufacture and study of analogs of electronics using atoms (especially Bose-Einstein condensates) at low temperature.
- attorneyism — the slyness and cleverness associated with attorneys
- audiometers — Plural form of audiometer.
- audiometric — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- auditoriums — Plural form of auditorium.
- autoerotism — pleasurable sensations or tensions arising in the erogenous body zones without external stimulation
- automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
- auxochromic — any radical or group of atoms that intensifies the color of a substance.
- axonometric — of or relating to a projection method of representing three-dimensional objects on a flat surface