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12-letter words containing m

  • american elm — an elm, Ulmus americana, of North America, cultivated for shade and ornament: state tree of Massachusetts, Nebraska, and North Dakota.
  • american ivy — a vitaceous woody vine, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, of North America, having tendrils with adhesive tips, bluish-black berry-like fruits, and compound leaves that turn red in autumn: widely planted for ornament
  • american rig — a rig for drilling oil and gas wells by using a chisel bit dropped from a considerable height.
  • americanisms — a custom, trait, belief, etc., peculiar to the United States of America or its citizens.
  • americanized — If someone is Americanized, they do things in a way that is typical of the United States.
  • americanness — of or relating to the United States of America or its inhabitants: an American citizen.
  • amethopterin — (now rare) Methotrexate.
  • amfebutamone — (former name) The drug bupropion.
  • amicableness — The state or quality of being amicable.
  • aminobenzene — aniline (def 1).
  • aminobenzoic — as in aminobenzoic acid
  • aminobutyric — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to any of several isomeric univalent radicals in which a hydrogen atom of a butyric radical is replaced by an amino group.
  • aminomethane — (organic compound, often in combination) methylamine (or a derivative of it).
  • aminophenols — Plural form of aminophenol.
  • amiphenazole — A respiratory stimulant traditionally used as an antidote for barbiturate or opiate overdose, usually in combination with bemegride.
  • amissibility — the quality of being amissible
  • amitotically — the direct method of cell division, characterized by simple cleavage of the nucleus without the formation of chromosomes.
  • ammonium ion — the ion NH4+, formed from ammonia and present in aqueous solutions of ammonia and in many salts
  • amnioscopies — Plural form of amnioscopy.
  • amniotic sac — membrane around embryo or foetus
  • among others — used to indicate that there are several more people like the one or ones mentioned, but that you do not intend to mention them all
  • amor patriae — love of one's country; patriotism
  • amortisation — Alternative spelling of amortization.
  • amortization — the process of amortizing a debt
  • amortizement — a sloping top on a buttress, pillar, etc.
  • amour-propre — self-respect
  • amourousness — Rare spelling of amorousness.
  • ampelography — the science concerned with the identification and classification of grapevines
  • ampere's law — the law that a magnetic field induced by an electric current is, at any point, directly proportional to the product of the current intensity and the length of the current conductor, inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point and the conductor, and perpendicular to the plane joining the point and the conductor.
  • amperometric — relating to or involving the measurement of an electric current
  • amphetamines — Plural form of amphetamine.
  • amphibiology — The branch of science that deals with amphibious animals.
  • amphibiously — In the manner of an amphibian.
  • amphiblastic — (of animal ova) showing complete but unequal cleavage after fertilization
  • amphibolitic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of an amphibolite.
  • amphibrachic — Consisting of amphibrachs, metrical feet consisting of either a long syllable between two that are short, or an accented syllable between two that are not accented.
  • amphicarpous — producing two kinds of fruit that differ either in form or in time of ripening.
  • amphicoelous — (of the vertebrae of most fishes and some amphibians) concave at the anterior and posterior ends
  • amphictyonic — of or relating to an amphictyon or an amphictyony.
  • amphidentate — (of a ligand) able to coordinate through either of two different atoms, as in CN–
  • amphidiploid — a plant originating from hybridization between two species in which the chromosome number is the sum of the chromosome numbers of both parental species. It behaves as an independent species
  • amphiregulin — (protein) A particular autocrine growth factor.
  • amphistomous — (of certain animals, such as leeches) having a sucker at either end of the body
  • amphitheater — An amphitheater is a large open area surrounded by rows of seats sloping upward. Amphitheaters were built mainly in Greek and Roman times for the performance of plays.
  • amphitheatre — An amphitheatre is a large open area surrounded by rows of seats sloping upwards. Amphitheatres were built mainly in Greek and Roman times for the performance of plays.
  • amphithecium — the outer layer of cells of the sporophyte of mosses and liverworts that develops into the outer parts of the spore-bearing capsule
  • amphitropous — (of a plant ovule) partially inverted so that the base and the micropyle at the apex are the same distance from the funicle
  • amphotericin — an amphoteric antibiotic produced by the bacterium Streptomyces nodosus and used in the treatment of fungal infections.
  • ampullaceous — shaped like an ampulla or a bladder
  • amundsen sea — a part of the South Pacific Ocean, in Antarctica off Byrd Land
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