10-letter words that end in m
- antilogism — a group of three inconsistent propositions, two of which are premises of a syllogism that contradict the third.
- antiracism — the policy of challenging racism and promoting racial tolerance
- antireform — opposed to reform
- antisexism — attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of gender roles.
- antitheism — the opposition to belief in god or gods
- apart from — You use apart from when you are making an exception to a general statement.
- aplanatism — the state of being free from spherical aberration
- apophthegm — a short cryptic remark containing some general or generally accepted truth; maxim
- apothecium — a cup-shaped structure that contains the asci, esp in lichens; a type of ascocarp
- arboriform — Resembling a tree in shape or appearance.
- archaicism — an archaism
- archiplasm — archoplasm
- archoplasm — the protoplasmic material surrounding the centrosome, formerly thought to be involved in the formation of the asters and spindle during mitosis
- arcosolium — (in Roman catacombs) an arched recess for a sarcophagus.
- argumentum — an argument
- arm in arm — If two people are walking arm in arm, they are walking together with their arms linked.
- arrow arum — a North American plant, Peltandra virginica, of wet areas, having large, arrow-shaped leaves and inconspicuous flowers enclosed in a narrow, pointed spathe.
- arthrogram — an x-ray photograph produced by arthrography.
- asceticism — Asceticism is a simple, strict way of life with no luxuries or physical pleasures.
- ascogonium — a female reproductive body in some ascomycetous fungi in which, after fertilization, the asci develop
- asepticism — a form of care or treatment which prevents putrification
- aside from — Aside from means the same as apart from. This form is more usual in American English.
- astaticism — The state of being astatic.
- asystolism — the indications or symptoms which are representative of asystole
- atracurium — a drug used to relax muscles
- attic room — a room in the attic of a house
- auditorium — An auditorium is the part of a theatre or concert hall where the audience sits.
- automatism — the state or quality of being automatic; mechanical or involuntary action
- autonomism — the belief in or a movement toward autonomy.
- autopodium — (anatomy) The distal part of a limb; a hand or foot.
- autotheism — the doctrine of God's self-existence and subsistence
- baculiform — shaped like a rod
- bantingism — a fat-reducing diet invented by William Banting, involving high protein intake, and low fat and carbohydrate intake
- bastardism — the condition of being illegitimate
- beach berm — berm (def 3).
- beach plum — a rosaceous shrub, Prunus maritima, of coastal regions of E North America
- beach-berm — Also, berme. Fortification. a horizontal surface between the exterior slope of a rampart and the moat.
- beard worm — pogonophoran.
- beaver dam — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- bellingham — seaport in NW Wash., at the N end of Puget Sound: pop. 67,000
- belly-slam — belly-flop.
- benthamism — the philosophy of utilitarianism as first expounded by Jeremy Bentham in terms of an action being good that has a greater tendency to augment the happiness of the community than to diminish it
- bergsonism — the philosophy of Henri Bergson, which emphasizes duration as the basic element of experience and asserts the existence of a life-giving force that permeates the entire natural order
- bestialism — the state of beasts
- betel palm — a tropical Asian feather palm, Areca catechu, with scarlet or orange fruits
- bettelheim — Bruno, 1903–90, U.S. psychologist, educator, and writer, born in Austria.
- bibliofilm — a microfilm used especially in libraries to photograph the pages of valuable or much-used books.
- bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
- birmingham — an industrial city in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, in the West Midlands: the second largest city in Great Britain; two cathedrals; three universities (1900, 1966, 1992). Pop: 970 892 (2001)
- bit stream — a simple contiguous sequence of binary digits transmitted continuously over a communications path; a sequence of data in binary form.