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.