10-letter words containing am
- ambilevous — (rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
- ambiophony — the reproduction of sound to create an illusion to a listener of being in a spacious room, such as a concert hall
- ambisexual — relating to or affecting both the male and female sexes
- ambisonics — the technique of reproducing and transmitting surround sound
- ambitioned — sought after, desired
- ambivalent — If you say that someone is ambivalent about something, they seem to be uncertain whether they really want it, or whether they really approve of it.
- amboceptor — an immune body formed in the blood during infection or immunization that serves to link the complement to the antigen
- ambulacral — one of the radial areas in an echinoderm, as the sea urchin, bearing the tube feet by which the creature moves.
- ambulacrum — any of five radial bands on the ventral surface of echinoderms, such as the starfish and sea urchin, on which the tube feet are situated
- ambulances — Plural form of ambulance.
- ambulating — Present participle of ambulate.
- ambulation — to walk about or move from place to place.
- ambulatory — of, relating to, or designed for walking
- ambuscaded — Simple past tense and past participle of ambuscade.
- ambuscader — a person waiting in ambush; an ambusher
- ambuscades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambuscade.
- ambush bug — any of several carnivorous bugs of the family Phymatidae, inhabiting tropical areas in the Americas and Asia, that lie concealed in flowers to prey on insects.
- ambushment — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
- ambystomid — Also called mole salamander. any of various small- to moderate-sized salamanders of the genus Ambystoma, terrestrial or semiaquatic, inhabiting North America from New England to Florida and westward to Texas.
- amd am2901 — (processor) A 4-bit bit-slice processor from Advanced Micro Devices. It featured sixteen 4-bit registers and a 4-bit ALU and operation signals to allow carry/borrow or shift operations and such to operate across any number of other 2901s. An address sequencer (such as the 2910) could provide control signals with the use of custom microcode in ROM.
- amd am2903 — (processor) A bit-slice prcessor from Advanced Micro Devices which featured hardware multiply.
- amd am2910 — (processor) An address sequencer from Advanced Micro Devices.
- ame damnee — a person who is willingly or blindly the tool of another person.
- amebocytes — Plural form of amebocyte, an alternative spelling of amoebocyte.
- ameliorant — a thing that ameliorates
- ameliorate — If someone or something ameliorates a situation, they make it better or easier in some way.
- ameloblast — a type of cell involved in forming dental enamel
- amen glass — a British glass of the mid-18th century, having engraved on it a sentiment favoring the cause of the Old Pretender, concluded with the word “Amen.”.
- amendation — (US) The result of making an amendment to a document etc; an amendment.
- amendatory — serving to amend; corrective
- amendments — the act of amending or the state of being amended.
- amenorrhea — abnormal absence or suppression of menstruation
- amensalism — a relationship between two species of organisms in which the individuals of one species adversely affect those of the other and are unaffected themselves.
- amer. ind. — American Indian
- amercement — to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- americanos — Plural form of americano.
- amerindian — Amerindian means the same as American Indian.
- amersfoort — a town in the central Netherlands, in E Utrecht province. Pop: 131 000 (2003 est)
- ametabolic — (of certain insects) having no obvious metamorphosis
- amiability — Amiability is the quality of being friendly and pleasant.
- amianthoid — a fine variety of asbestos, with delicate, flexible filaments.
- amino acid — Amino acids are substances containing nitrogen and hydrogen and which are found in proteins. Amino acids occur naturally in the body.
- aminoacids — Plural form of aminoacid.
- aminoplast — amino resin.
- aminosugar — a monosaccharide with an amino or substituted amino group in place of a nonglycosidic hydroxyl group.
- amiodarone — a substance, C 25 H 29 I 2 NO 3 , used in the treatment of heart arrhythmias.
- amlodipine — A long-acting calcium channel blocker used as an anti-hypertensive and in the treatment of angina.
- ammocoetes — Plural form of ammocoete.
- ammoniacal — of, containing, using, or resembling ammonia
- ammoniated — to treat or cause to unite with ammonia.