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11-letter words containing s, m

  • agelasimine — (organic compound) Any of various adenine-related bicyclic diterpenoids isolated from the orange sponge Agelas mauritania, structurally related to the agelasines.
  • agnosticism — Agnosticism is the belief that it is not possible to say definitely whether or not there is a God. Compare atheism.
  • agrammatism — a type of aphasia, usually caused by cerebral disease, characterized by an inability to construct a grammatical or intelligible sentence while retaining the ability to speak single words.
  • agrammatist — One suffering from agrammatism.
  • agrarianism — a movement for the equal division of landed property and for the promotion of agricultural interests.
  • agritourism — tourism in which customers stay in accommodation on working farms and may have the opportunity to help with farm work
  • agronomists — Plural form of agronomist.
  • agrotourism — tourism in which tourists take part in farm or village activities, as animal and crop care, cooking and cleaning, handicrafts, and entertainments.
  • aimlessness — The state or quality of being aimless, or without purpose or direction.
  • air marshal — a senior Royal Air Force officer of equivalent rank to a vice admiral in the Royal Navy
  • alarm bells — If you say that something sets alarm bells ringing, you mean that it makes people feel worried or concerned about something.
  • alaska time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
  • albuminoids — any of a class of simple proteins, as keratin, gelatin, or collagen, that are insoluble in all neutral solvents; scleroprotein.
  • alchemistic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
  • aldermaston — a village in S England, in West Berkshire unitary authority, Berkshire, SW of Reading: site of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment and starting point of the Aldermaston marches (1958–63), organized by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Pop: 927 (2001)
  • algesimeter — an instrument for determining the sensitiveness of the skin to a painful stimulus.
  • alismaceous — of or relating to the genus Alisma
  • allotropism — a property of certain elements, as carbon, sulfur, and phosphorus, of existing in two or more distinct forms; allomorphism.
  • allurements — Plural form of allurement.
  • almoravides — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa from 1056 to 1147.
  • altazimuths — Plural form of altazimuth.
  • altocumulus — a globular cloud at an intermediate height of about 2400 to 6000 metres (8000 to 20 000 feet)
  • alzheimer's — a common form of dementia, believed to be caused by changes in the brain, usually beginning in late middle age, characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability, and progressive loss of mental ability.
  • amalgamates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amalgamate.
  • amaryllises — Plural form of amaryllis.
  • amateurship — the nature of an amateur
  • amativeness — (phrenology) The state or quality of being amative; propensity to love or sexual feelings.
  • amazingness — The state or quality, of being amazing.
  • amazonstone — A bluish-green variety of microcline feldspar used as a gemstone. The best known occurrences are at Crystal Peak and Pike's Peak in Colorado.
  • ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • ambassadrix — (rare) an ambassadress.
  • ambiguities — Uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language.
  • ambiguously — open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal: an ambiguous answer.
  • ambitiously — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • ambiversion — a condition or character trait that includes elements of both introversion and extroversion
  • amblyoscope — an instrument used to train an amblyopic eye to function properly.
  • ambrosially — In an ambrosial manner.
  • ambulocetus — A large carnivorous amphibian (Ambulocetus natans).
  • ambuscading — Present participle of ambuscade.
  • ameliorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ameliorate.
  • amentaceous — of or like an ament or aments
  • americanism — An Americanism is an expression that is typical of people living in the United States of America.
  • americanist — a person who studies some aspect of America, such as its history or languages
  • ametabolism — a form of growth or life cycle with little or no metamorphosis
  • ametabolous — without metamorphosis
  • amethystine — Like amethyst, especially when referring to colour.
  • amiableness — The state or quality of being amiable.
  • amici prism — a compound prism that spreads out incident white light into a spectrum but produces no deviation of the central color of the dispersed beam.
  • amino acids — any of a class of organic compounds that contains at least one amino group, –NH 2 , and one carboxyl group, –COOH: the alpha-amino acids, RCH(NH 2)COOH, are the building blocks from which proteins are constructed.
  • amino resin — any thermosetting synthetic resin formed by copolymerization of amines or amides with aldehydes. Amino resins are used as adhesives and as coatings for paper and textiles
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