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11-letter words containing r, o, m

  • ante-mortem — (esp in legal or medical contexts) before death
  • antenniform — shaped like an antenna
  • 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.
  • antiheroism — (literature) The quality of being an antihero.
  • antitumoral — Antitumor.
  • antler moth — a European noctuid moth, Cerapteryx (or Charaeas) graminis, that has white antler-like markings on the forewings and produces larvae that periodically cause great damage to pastures and grasslands
  • apertometer — an instrument for measuring the angular and numerical aperture of the objective lens of a microscope.
  • 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
  • approvement — (obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
  • 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
  • araeometric — relating to araeometry
  • arakan yoma — a mountain range in Myanmar, between the Irrawaddy River and the W coast: forms a barrier between Myanmar and India; teak forests
  • araneomorph — (zoology) Any of the Araneomorphae, a suborder of spiders whose fangs cross with a pinching action.
  • archdukedom — the territory ruled by an archduke or archduchess
  • archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
  • archeometry — the branch of archaeology that deals with the dating of archaeological specimens through specific techniques, as radiocarbon dating and amino-acid dating.
  • armageddons — Plural form of armageddon.
  • armor plate — a protective covering of specially hardened steel plates, as on a tank
  • armorbearer — a person who carried the armor or weapons of a warrior
  • armored car — any of various vehicles covered with armor plate, as a truck for carrying money to or from a bank
  • armory show — an international art show held in a New York City armory in 1913: considered a landmark in the public and critical acceptance of modern art.
  • armour-clad — wearing armour
  • arms akimbo — with hands on hips and elbows projecting outwards
  • aromaticity — the property of certain planar cyclic conjugated molecules, esp benzene, of behaving like unsaturated molecules and undergoing substitution reactions rather than addition as a result of delocalization of electrons in the ring
  • aromatizing — Present participle of aromatize.
  • arteriogram — an X-ray of a vein or artery which has been injected with dye in order to diagnose obstruction or damage
  • arteriotomy — the surgical cutting of an artery or a cut made in an artery
  • arthrectomy — surgical excision of a joint
  • arthrograms — Plural form of arthrogram.
  • arthur monk — (James) Arthur ("Art") born 1957, U.S. football player.
  • asbestiform — having the look or structure of asbestos
  • aspersorium — a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
  • assimilator — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
  • assortments — Plural form of assortment.
  • 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
  • atherectomy — the removal of plaque from an artery by means of a tiny rotating cutting blade inserted through a catheter.
  • athermanous — capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation
  • atmosphered — having an intellectual or psychological climate or feeling
  • atmospheres — Plural form of atmosphere.
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