11-letter words containing am
- concamerate — To arch over; to vault.
- contaminant — A contaminant is something that contaminates a substance such as water or food.
- contaminate — If something is contaminated by dirt, chemicals, or radiation, they make it dirty or harmful.
- contaminous — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- coram nobis — a writ to correct an injury caused by a mistake of the court.
- cram course — an intensive course of study designed to review or teach material needed for a specific purpose or, often, material previously taught but not mastered.
- cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
- crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
- crampfishes — Plural form of crampfish.
- cramponning — climbing using crampons
- cream sauce — a white sauce made from cream, butter, etc
- cryptogamic — Of, relating to, or denoting cryptogams.
- cryptograms — Plural form of cryptogram.
- dactylogram — a fingerprint
- damascening — Present participle of damascene.
- damask rose — a rose, Rosa damascena, native to Asia and cultivated for its pink or red fragrant flowers, which are used to make the perfume attar
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- damping off — any of various diseases of plants, esp the collapse and death of seedlings caused by the parasitic fungus Pythium debaryanum and related fungi in conditions of excessive moisture
- damping-off — a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.
- dampishness — the quality of being dampish
- damselflies — Plural form of damselfly.
- dance drama — drama performed through dance movements, frequently with dialogue.
- daydreamers — Plural form of daydreamer.
- daydreaming — indulgence in daydreams
- deamidating — Present participle of deamidate.
- deamidation — (biochemistry) The conversion of glutamine, asparagine, glutamine residues in a polypeptide to glutamic acid or aspartic acid by treatment with strong acid, transamidase or deamidase.
- deamination — to remove the amino group from (a compound).
- decameronic — resembling or having characteristics of the Decameron written by Boccaccio
- declamation — a rhetorical or emotional speech, made esp in order to protest or condemn; tirade
- declamatory — A declamatory phrase, statement, or way of speaking is dramatic and confident.
- dedramatize — to cause to be less dramatic
- defamations — Plural form of defamation.
- deglamorize — to make (a person or thing) less glamorous
- delaminated — Describing any structure whose laminations have been removed.
- dendrograms — Plural form of dendrogram.
- deprogramme — to free (someone) from the effects of indoctrination, esp by a religious cult or political group
- descamisado — an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
- descrambled — Simple past tense and past participle of descramble.
- descrambler — unscrambler (def 2).
- desipramine — a tricyclic antidepressant drug
- desquamated — Simple past tense and past participle of desquamate.
- deuterogamy — a marriage after the death or divorce of the first spouse
- diagramming — a figure, usually consisting of a line drawing, made to accompany and illustrate a geometrical theorem, mathematical demonstration, etc.
- diamagnetic — of, exhibiting, or concerned with diamagnetism
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- diamond bar — a city in SW California.
- diamondback — any edible North American terrapin of the genus Malaclemys, esp M. terrapin, occurring in brackish and tidal waters and having diamond-shaped markings on the shell: family Emydidae
- diamondized — Simple past tense and past participle of diamondize.