11-letter words containing m, s, t, a
- antimusical — opposed to musical conventions
- antinomians — Plural form of antinomian.
- antirealism — the denial of an objective reality
- antisemitic — Alternative spelling of anti-Semitic.
- antismoking — intended to prevent people from smoking tobacco
- antistatism — the principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.
- antonomasia — the substitution of a title or epithet for a proper name, such as his highness
- apoliticism — the quality of being apolitical
- apophthegms — Plural form of apophthegm.
- apotropaism — the use of ritual or magic to ward off evil or bad luck
- appeasement — Appeasement means giving people what they want to prevent them from harming you or being angry with you.
- arithmetics — Plural form of arithmetic.
- arm-wrestle — (of two people) to sit facing each other with the elbows resting on a table and clasping hands with each other, each trying to force the other's arm flat onto the table while keeping his or her own elbow touching the table
- armentieres — a town in N France: site of battles in both World Wars. Pop: 25 273 (1999)
- arms-length — not closely or intimately connected or associated; distant; remote: an arm's-length relationship.
- arrangments — Plural form of arrangement.
- arrhythmias — Plural form of arrhythmia.
- artemisinin — a drug obtained from the plant genus Artemisia and used to treat malaria
- arthrograms — Plural form of arthrogram.
- asbestiform — having the look or structure of asbestos
- 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
- ascomycetes — any fungus of the phylum Ascomycota (or class Ascomycetes), including the molds and truffles, characterized by bearing the sexual spores in a sac (as distinguished from basidiomycete).
- aspheterism — the teaching that all property should be in common ownership and no individual should benefit from personal possession
- assessments — Plural form of assessment.
- assignments — Plural form of assignment.
- assimilated — Simple past tense and past participle of assimilate.
- assimilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of assimilate.
- assimilator — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- assimulated — Simple past tense and past participle of assimulate.
- assimulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of assimulate.
- assoilments — Plural form of assoilment.
- assortments — Plural form of assortment.
- assuagement — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- assumptions — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
- asthmatical — Dated form of asthmatic.
- astigmatism — If someone has astigmatism, the front of their eye has a slightly irregular shape, so they cannot see properly.
- astoundment — the state of being astounded
- astroblemes — Plural form of astrobleme.
- astrocytoma — a tumour of the nervous system which originates in and consists mainly of astrocytes
- astromancer — divination by means of the stars.
- astrometric — (astronomy) of or relating to astrometry.
- astronomers — Plural form of astronomer.
- astronomize — to practise or study astronomy or engage in astronomical matters
- asymmetries — Plural form of asymmetry.
- 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.
- at the most — You use at a minimum, or at the minimum, when you want to indicate that something is the very least which could or should happen.
- athermanous — capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation
- athleticism — Athleticism is someone's fitness and ability to perform well at sports or other physical activities.
- atlanticism — advocacy of close cooperation in military, political, and economic matters between Western Europe, esp the UK, and the US
- atmosphered — having an intellectual or psychological climate or feeling