11-letter words containing ant
- anthocyanin — any of a class of water-soluble glycosidic pigments, esp those responsible for the red and blue colours in flowers. They are closely related to vitamins E and P
- anthologies — Plural form of anthology.
- anthologise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of anthologize.
- anthologist — a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or on the same subject: an anthology of Elizabethan drama; an anthology of modern philosophy.
- anthologize — to compile or put into an anthology
- anthomaniac — someone with an extreme fondness for flowers
- anthophobia — an abnormal fear of flowers.
- anthracitic — Pertaining to, or composed of, anthracite.
- anthracnose — any of several fungus diseases of plants and trees, such as vines and beans, characterized by oval dark depressed spots on the fruit and elsewhere
- anthracosis — a lung disease due to inhalation of coal dust
- anthracotic — the deposition of coal dust in the lungs; asymptomatic pneumoconiosis.
- anthrophony — Any sound produced by human beings or their creations.
- anthropical — relating to human nature
- anthropoids — Plural form of anthropoid.
- anthroponym — a personal name.
- anti-ageing — of or relating to any product or procedure claiming to reverse or slow down the effects of ageing
- anti-biotic — any of a large group of chemical substances, as penicillin or streptomycin, produced by various microorganisms and fungi, having the capacity in dilute solutions to inhibit the growth of or to destroy bacteria and other microorganisms, used chiefly in the treatment of infectious diseases.
- anti-busing — opposing legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
- anti-choice — opposed to the legal right to obtain an abortion; pro-life
- anti-church — a building for public Christian worship.
- anti-enzyme — a substance that inhibits or counteracts the action of an enzyme.
- 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.
- anti-g suit — a garment for fliers and astronauts designed to exert pressure on the abdomen and thighs to prevent or retard the pooling of blood below the heart under the influence of excessive head-to-toe acceleration forces.
- anti-jewish — anti-Semitic
- anti-litter — objects strewn or scattered about; scattered rubbish.
- anti-nature — the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
- anti-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- anti-rabies — an infectious disease of dogs, cats, and other animals, transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected animal and usually fatal if prophylactic treatment is not administered: caused by an RNA virus of the rhabdovirus group; hydrophobia.
- anti-racial — of or relating to the social construct of race: racial diversity; racial stereotypes.
- anti-reform — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- anti-semite — An anti-Semite is someone who strongly dislikes and is prejudiced against Jewish people.
- anti-sexism — attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of gender roles.
- anti-social — Someone who is anti-social is unwilling to meet and be friendly with other people.
- anti-soviet — opposed to anything characteristic of or relating to the former Soviet Union and its government
- anti-stress — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
- antialcohol — relating to an opposition to alcoholic drink
- antianginal — An antianginal is any drug that reduces consumption of oxygen in the myocardium (= the muscular tissue of the heart) or increases oxygen supply to the myocardium to prevent symptoms of angina.
- antianxiety — acting against anxiety
- antibaryons — Plural form of antibaryon.
- antibilious — of a nature that can be used to counter biliousness
- antibiotics — Plural form of antibiotic.
- antiblastic — antagonistic to growth.
- antiboycott — opposed to boycotts
- antibugging — designed to detect and alert a person to the use of a secret listening device: to install antibugging equipment.
- antiburglar — intended to prevent burglary
- anticandida — (medicine) Acting to combat or prevent an infection with the yeast Candida albicans.
- anticarious — preventing or retarding caries.
- anticathode — the target electrode for the stream of electrons in a vacuum tube, esp an X-ray tube
- antichamber — Obsolete form of antechamber.
- antichoicer — someone who opposes the granting of pregnant women the choice to have an abortion