11-letter words starting with ar
- arkhangelsk — seaport in NW Russia, at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River: pop. 407,000
- arm-wrestle — (of two people) to sit facing each other with the elbows resting on a table and clasping hands with each other, each trying to force the other's arm flat onto the table while keeping his or her own elbow touching the table
- armageddons — Plural form of armageddon.
- armed guard — a guard who is carrying a gun
- armentieres — a town in N France: site of battles in both World Wars. Pop: 25 273 (1999)
- arminianism — a liberal Christian movement based on the doctrines of Jacobus Arminius, that stressed free will as opposed to Calvinistic predestination
- armor plate — a protective covering of specially hardened steel plates, as on a tank
- armorbearer — a person who carried the armor or weapons of a warrior
- armored car — any of various vehicles covered with armor plate, as a truck for carrying money to or from a bank
- armory show — an international art show held in a New York City armory in 1913: considered a landmark in the public and critical acceptance of modern art.
- armour-clad — wearing armour
- arms akimbo — with hands on hips and elbows projecting outwards
- arms dealer — a person or business that sells weapons and other military equipment
- arms-length — not closely or intimately connected or associated; distant; remote: an arm's-length relationship.
- arnhem land — a region of N Australia in the N Northern Territory, large areas of which are reserved for native Australians
- aroint thee — away! begone!
- arolla pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra, found esp in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
- aromaticity — the property of certain planar cyclic conjugated molecules, esp benzene, of behaving like unsaturated molecules and undergoing substitution reactions rather than addition as a result of delocalization of electrons in the ring
- aromatizing — Present participle of aromatize.
- aron kodesh — Holy Ark.
- arpeggiated — having arpeggios
- arquebusade — the shot of an arquebus
- arquebusier — harquebusier.
- arraignment — Arraignment is when someone is brought before a court of law to answer a particular charge.
- arrangeable — to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly: to arrange books on a shelf.
- arrangement — Arrangements are plans and preparations which you make so that something will happen or be possible.
- arrangments — Plural form of arrangement.
- arrestation — the slowing or stopping of the development or progress of something
- arrestingly — attracting or capable of attracting attention or interest; striking: an arresting smile.
- arrhenotoky — a form of parthenogenesis which produces only male offspring
- arrhythmias — Plural form of arrhythmia.
- arriere-ban — (in medieval France) a summons to the king's vassals to do military service
- arrivederci — goodbye
- arrowheaded — Shaped like the head of an arrow; cuneiform; cuneatic.
- ars antiqua — the style of composition characteristic of the 13th century, especially in France.
- ars poetica — the art of poetry
- arse around — If you say that someone is arsing around or arsing about, you mean that they are behaving in a silly, irritating way instead of getting something done.
- arse licker — a person who curries favour
- arsenicated — Treated with arsenate or other arsenic compound.
- arsonphobia — Pyrophobia.
- art college — a college at which students study and make art of various kinds, such as drawing, painting and sculpture
- art gallery — a place where works of art are displayed
- art history — study of art through the ages
- art nouveau — Art Nouveau is a style of decoration and architecture that was common in the 1890s. It is characterized by flowing lines and patterns of flowers and leaves.
- art of love — Latin Ars Amatoria. a series of poems in three books (1? b.c.) by Ovid.
- art student — a person studying art
- art theater — art house
- art therapy — a type of psychotherapy that encourages the expression of emotions through artistic activities such as painting, drawing, or sculpture; psychotherapy based on the belief that the creative process involved in the making of art is healing and life-enhancing.
- arte povera — a style of minimal art originating in Italy in the late 1960s, making use of cheap and commonly available materials such as stones, newspapers etc
- artefactual — relating to an artefact