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11-letter words containing am

  • anti-family — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
  • antichamber — Obsolete form of antechamber.
  • antifoaming — acting to prevent the formation of foam
  • antivitamin — a substance that inhibits the effects of a vitamin
  • apogamously — in an apogamous manner
  • apricot jam — a sweet preserve made from apricots
  • aquamarines — Plural form of aquamarine.
  • arbitrament — the decision or award made by an arbitrator upon a disputed matter
  • arcade game — An arcade game is a computer game of the type that is often played in amusement arcades.
  • argand lamp — an oil lamp with a chimney, having a tubular wick that permits air to reach the center of the flame.
  • arteriogram — an X-ray of a vein or artery which has been injected with dye in order to diagnose obstruction or damage
  • arthrograms — Plural form of arthrogram.
  • arum family — the plant family Araceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having numerous tiny flowers on a fleshy spike above or sheathed by a large spathe, and including the anthurium, calla lily, jack-in-the-pulpit, and philodendron.
  • arylamines' — any of a group of amines in which one or more of the hydrogen atoms of ammonia are replaced by aromatic groups.
  • ashamedness — the condition of feeling ashamed
  • atramentous — similar to or as black as ink
  • autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
  • autopotamic — (of an organism) living or growing only in flowing freshwater streams.
  • backgammons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backgammon.
  • badger game — the blackmailing of a man by maneuvering him into a compromising situation with a woman
  • balsam pear — an Old World tropical vine, Momordica charantia, of the gourd family, having yellow flowers and orange-yellow fruit.
  • bambocciata — a genre painting of usually small size produced in Rome in the 17th century.
  • bamboo ware — a cane-colored Wedgwood stoneware of c1770 imitating bamboo.
  • bamboozling — Present participle of bamboozle.
  • bandkeramik — the pottery of the early Neolithic Danubian culture of Europe, having characteristic parallel spiral lines over the body and neck of the gourdlike vessels and dated 5000–4000 b.c.
  • bantam work — Coromandel work.
  • barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
  • be to blame — to be at fault or culpable
  • beam aerial — an aerial system, such as a Yagi aerial, having directional properties
  • beam engine — an early type of steam engine, in which a pivoted beam is vibrated by a vertical steam cylinder at one end, so that it transmits motion to the workload, such as a pump, at the other end
  • beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
  • beam search — (algorithm)   An optimisation of the best first search graph search algorithm where only a predetermined number of paths are kept as candidates. The number of paths is the "width of the beam". If more paths than this are generated, the worst paths are discarded. This reduces the space requirements of best first search.
  • beam weapon — a laser-beam or particle-beam weapon.
  • bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
  • benjaminite — a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
  • betsiamites — a river in E Quebec, Canada, flowing SE to the St. Lawrence River. 240 miles (386 km) long.
  • bikram yoga — a form of yoga in which traditional exercises are performed at high temperature and humidity
  • biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
  • bipyramidal — relating to a symmetrical structure consisting of two pyramids
  • black bream — a dark-coloured food and game fish, Acanthopagrus australis, of E Australian seas
  • blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
  • blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
  • bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
  • bomb damage — damage to buildings, etc caused by the explosion of a bomb
  • boring clam — piddock
  • boulder dam — Hoover Dam
  • bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
  • bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
  • breast beam — a horizontal bar, located at the front of a loom, over which the woven material is passed on its way to the cloth roll.
  • bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
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