11-letter words containing m, r
- adumbrative — foreshadowing; sketchy; faintly indicative.
- adventurism — Adventurism is a willingness to take risks, especially in order to obtain an unfair advantage in politics or business.
- advergaming — a method of interactive marketing in which free downloadable computer games appear on websites (often as pop-ups) to advertise a company or product
- aerial mast — a mast on which an aerial is mounted
- aerial mine — Military. a mine designed to be dropped from the air into water.
- aerodromics — (obsolete) The science of flying airplanes.
- aerodynamic — If something such as a car has an aerodynamic shape or design, it goes faster and uses less fuel than other cars because the air passes over it more easily.
- aeromedical — relating to the medical treatment of disorders associated with air or space travel
- aerotropism — the growth of plants towards or away from a source of oxygen
- affirmation — the act of affirming or the state of being affirmed
- affirmative — An affirmative word or gesture indicates that you agree with what someone has said or that the answer to a question is 'yes'.
- affirmatory — showing or giving confirmation, ratification, or assertion
- affirmingly — in an affirming or asserting manner
- afforcement — an increase in force or strength
- afterimages — Plural form of afterimage.
- aftermarket — The aftermarket is all the related products that are sold after an item, especially a car, has been bought.
- agamospermy — formation of seeds in the absence of fertilization; a form of apomixis
- agglomerate — to form or be formed into a mass or cluster; collect
- agrammatism — a type of aphasia, usually caused by cerebral disease, characterized by an inability to construct a grammatical or intelligible sentence while retaining the ability to speak single words.
- agrammatist — One suffering from agrammatism.
- agrarianism — a movement for the equal division of landed property and for the promotion of agricultural interests.
- agritourism — tourism in which customers stay in accommodation on working farms and may have the opportunity to help with farm work
- agronomical — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
- agronomists — Plural form of agronomist.
- agrotourism — tourism in which tourists take part in farm or village activities, as animal and crop care, cooking and cleaning, handicrafts, and entertainments.
- ahura mazda — Ormazd
- air chamber — a compartment in a device or structure that is filled with air
- air command — the Canadian air force
- air marshal — a senior Royal Air Force officer of equivalent rank to a vice admiral in the Royal Navy
- 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.
- 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
- albuminuria — the presence of albumin in the urine
- albuminuric — related to the state of albuminuria
- 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)
- aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- allurements — Plural form of allurement.
- 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.