11-letter words containing r, i, m
- 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.
- amphibrachs — Plural form of amphibrach.
- amphichiral — (mathematics) superimposable on its mirror image; achiral.
- amphichroic — producing two colours, one on reacting with an acid, the other on reacting with a base
- amphicrania — (pathology) A headache affecting both sides of the head.
- 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.
- amphimacers — Plural form of amphimacer.
- amphistylar — (esp of a classical temple) having a set of columns at both ends or at both sides
- amphithuron — amphithyra (def 1).
- amphithyron — amphithyra (def 1).
- amphitricha — bacteria that have flagella at both ends
- amphoriskos — a miniature amphora.
- ampitheater — Misspelling of amphitheater.
- ampitheatre — Misspelling of amphitheatre.
- amur privet — a northern Chinese shrub, Ligustrum amurense, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and white flowers.
- 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- anachronism — You say that something is an anachronism when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
- anagramming — a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”.
- anamorphism — intense metamorphism of a rock in which high-density complex minerals are formed from simpler minerals of lower density
- anaximander — 611–547 bc, Greek philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who believed the first principle of the world to be the Infinite
- androconium — a scale on the forewing of certain male butterflies from which an odor attractive to females is emitted.
- animal farm — a political satire (1945) by George Orwell.
- animal park — a zoo in which wild animals are housed and displayed in large open spaces designed to resemble their native habitats.
- animalcular — Of, relating to, or resembling, animalcules.
- 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
- antheridium — the male sex organ of algae, fungi, bryophytes, and spore-bearing vascular plants, such as ferns, which produces antherozoids
- 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.
- antichamber — Obsolete form of antechamber.
- antiheroism — (literature) The quality of being an antihero.
- antimalaria — acting against or preventing malaria
- antimalware — Designed or intended to combat or eliminate malware on a computer system.
- antirealism — the denial of an objective reality
- antirrhinum — any scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Antirrhinum, esp the snapdragon, which have two-lipped flowers of various colours
- 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
- aquamarines — Plural form of aquamarine.
- araeometric — relating to araeometry
- arbitrament — the decision or award made by an arbitrator upon a disputed matter