11-Letter Words Starting: AM

• an association of neighboring states or tribes in ancient Greece; established originally to defend a common religious center

• (of a molecule) Being a detergent: having both hydrophilic and hydrophobic (or lipophilic) groups.

• (of a protein, especially an alpha helix) Having one surface consisting of hydrophilic amino acids and the opposite surface consisting of hydrophobic (or lipophilic) ones.

• The lancelet, particularly of the genus Branchiostoma.

• Describing a molecule, such as a detergent, which has both hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups.

• Of the surface(s) on a protein, particularly an alpha helix, where one surface of the alpha helix has hydrophilic amino acids and the opposite face has hydrophobic (or lipophilic) amino acids.

• A moderate-spectrum, bacteriolytic beta-lactam antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections caused by susceptible microorganisms, with formula C16H19N3O5S.

• A metrical foot in ancient Greek or Latin consisting of two short syllables surrounding one long one (e.g. amāta).

• A metrical foot in modern prosody, consisting of three syllables, the middle one of which is stressed (e.g. Jamaica).

• an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes