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11-letter words containing o, a, r

  • anemography — the technique of recording wind measurements
  • anemometers — Plural form of anemometer.
  • anfractuous — characterized by twists and turns; convoluted
  • angelolatry — the worship of angels
  • angiography — a method of obtaining an X-ray of blood vessels by injecting into them a substance, such as one containing iodine, that shows up as opaque on an X-ray picture
  • angkor thom — the site of the ruined capital city of the Khmer empire, at Angkor.
  • angle board — a board serving as a gauge for an angle planed across the end of other boards.
  • anglo-irish — the English language as spoken in Ireland
  • anglosphere — a group of English-speaking countries that share common roots in British culture and history, usually the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada
  • angora goat — a breed of domestic goat with long soft hair
  • angora wool — Angora (def 2).
  • animatronic — of, concerned with, or operated by animatronics
  • anisocarpic — (of a flower) having a lower number of carpels than of other floral parts.
  • anisocercal — (of fish) having unequal tail-fin lobes
  • anisomerous — (of flowers) having floral whorls that differ in the number of their parts
  • anisometric — not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts or unequal measurements
  • anisopteran — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Anisoptera, comprising the dragonflies.
  • anisotropic — not isotropic; having different physical properties in different directions
  • annihilator — a person or thing that annihilates.
  • annunciator — a device that gives a visual indication as to which of a number of electric circuits has operated, such as an indicator in a hotel showing in which room a bell has been rung
  • anonymizers — Plural form of anonymizer.
  • anorthosite — a coarse-grained plutonic igneous rock consisting almost entirely of plagioclase feldspar
  • anovulatory — not associated with, not caused by, or not exhibiting ovulation.
  • answerphone — An answerphone is a device which you connect to your telephone and which records telephone calls while you are out.
  • antagonizer — a person who antagonizes people, or provokes hostility: The leader was an antagonizer of the peasantry. Compare antagonist.
  • antatrophic — preventing or curing atrophy.
  • ante-mortem — (esp in legal or medical contexts) before death
  • antenniform — shaped like an antenna
  • anteorbital — in front of the orbit of the eye
  • anteportico — a lesser portico preceding a main portico.
  • anteriority — situated before or at the front of; fore (opposed to posterior).
  • anterograde — moving forwards, in the normal direction of flow
  • anteversion — abnormal forward tilting of a bodily organ, esp the uterus
  • antherozoid — one of many small male gametes produced in an antheridium
  • anthochlore — a yellow pigment found in flowers
  • anthracnose — any of several fungus diseases of plants and trees, such as vines and beans, characterized by oval dark depressed spots on the fruit and elsewhere
  • anthracosis — a lung disease due to inhalation of coal dust
  • anthracotic — the deposition of coal dust in the lungs; asymptomatic pneumoconiosis.
  • anthrophony — Any sound produced by human beings or their creations.
  • anthropical — relating to human nature
  • anthropoids — Plural form of anthropoid.
  • anthroponym — a personal name.
  • 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.
  • antibaryons — Plural form of antibaryon.
  • anticarious — preventing or retarding caries.
  • antichoicer — someone who opposes the granting of pregnant women the choice to have an abortion
  • anticipator — to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee: to anticipate pleasure.
  • antiforeign — opposed to or discriminating against foreigners or foreign countries
  • antiheroine — a central female character in a novel, play, film, etc, who lacks the traditional heroic virtues
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