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9-letter words that end in m

  • apriorism — the philosophical doctrine that there may be genuine knowledge independent of experience
  • arbitrium — the power to decide
  • arboretum — An arboretum is a specially designed garden of different types of trees.
  • arch beam — a crowned metal beam, as of the deck of a ship.
  • army worm — any of the larvae of certain noctuid moths, esp. of the moth (Pseudaletia unipuncta) of which the caterpillar is dark-striped green and yellow: these larvae travel in large groups, ruining crops and grass
  • arrowworm — any small marine invertebrate of the genus Sagitta, having an elongated transparent body with fins and prehensile oral bristles: phylum Chaetognatha (chaetognaths)
  • asphaltum — a substance used to protect surface areas of metal that do not require to be etched
  • asplenium — any fern of the very large genus Asplenium, of worldwide distribution. Some, esp the bird's nest fern (A. nidus), are grown as greenhouse or house plants for their decorative evergreen fronds: family Polypodiaceae
  • aswan dam — a dam on the Nile built in 1902 and twice raised in height; now replaced by the Aswan High Dam
  • at bottom — You use at bottom to emphasize that you are stating what you think is the real nature of something or the real truth about a situation.
  • at random — If you choose people or things at random, you do not use any particular method, so they all have an equal chance of being chosen.
  • athenaeum — an institution for the promotion of learning
  • athletism — The state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete.
  • atm forum — (networking, body)   An international non-profit arganisation aiming to encourage the user of Asynchronous Transfer Mode through interoperability specifications and to promote cooperation and awareness. The ATM Forum consists of a worldwide Technical Committee, three Marketing Committees for North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific as well as the User Committee, through which ATM end-users participate. Worldwide Headquarters: 2570 West El Camino Real, Suite 304 Mountain View, CA 94040-1313 USA. Telephone: +1 (650) 949 6700. E-mail: ATM Forum <[email protected]>.
  • atonalism — atonality.
  • audiogram — a graphic record of the acuity of hearing of a person obtained by means of an audiometer
  • auteurism — a critical film theory according to which the primary creator of a film is the director, all of whose works are said to reflect to a certain degree the characteristics of a personal style
  • authorism — the state or condition of being author
  • autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
  • averroism — the teachings of Averroës
  • avizandum — a judge's or court's decision to consider a case privately before giving judgment
  • away team — a team playing away from its home ground.
  • axanthism — (zoology) Absence of yellow pigmentation.
  • aztreonam — A synthetic monobactam originally isolated from Chromobacterium violaceum, similar in action to penicillin.
  • baby boom — A baby boom is a period of time when a lot of babies are born in a particular place.
  • baby farm — a place that houses and takes care of babies for a fee.
  • bacciform — shaped like a berry
  • back room — a place where research or planning is done, esp secret research in wartime
  • backronym — an existing word turned into an acronym by creating an apt phrase whose initial letters match the word, as to help remember it or offer a theory of its origin. For example, rap has been said to be a backronym of “rhythm and poetry.”.
  • bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
  • balkanism — to divide (a country, territory, etc.) into small, quarrelsome, ineffectual states.
  • barathrum — any deep abyss
  • barbarism — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarism, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
  • barenboim — Daniel. born 1942, Israeli concert pianist and conductor, born in Argentina
  • barnstorm — When people such as politicians or performers barnstorm, they travel around the country making speeches or giving shows.
  • base form — the simplest form of a word, to which inflections may be added
  • bashawism — the combined characteristics of a bashaw, esp haughtiness, imperiousness
  • bass drum — a large shallow drum of low and indefinite pitch
  • beach bum — If you refer to someone as a beach bum, you mean that they spend a lot of time enjoying themselves on the beach or in the sea.
  • beadledom — petty officialdom
  • bedlamism — anything characteristic of bedlam
  • beggardom — beggary (def 2).
  • behmenism — Boehmenism.
  • belgicism — a word or expression used by Belgians when speaking French or Dutch
  • bergstrom — Sune (ˈsʊnə). 1916–2004, Swedish biochemist; shared the Nobel prize for medicine and physiology (1982) for work on prostaglandin
  • berkelium — a metallic transuranic element produced by bombardment of americium. Symbol: Bk; atomic no: 97; half-life of most stable isotope, 247Bk: 1400 years; valency: 3 or 4; relative density: 14 (est)
  • beryllium — a corrosion-resistant toxic silvery-white metallic element that occurs chiefly in beryl and is used mainly in X-ray windows and in the manufacture of alloys. Symbol: Be; atomic no: 4; atomic wt: 9.012; valency: 2; relative density: 1.848; melting pt: 1289°C; boiling pt: 2472°C
  • bethlehem — a town in the West Bank, near Jerusalem: birthplace of Jesus and early home of King David
  • biblicism — an adherence to the literal sense of the Bible
  • biologism — the explanation of human behaviour through biology
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