11-letter words containing a, c, m, t, i
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- maleficient — Doing evil, harm, or mischief.
- malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- malpractice — Law. failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows.
- mancipation — (obsolete) slavery.
- mancipatory — relating to mancipation
- manducating — Present participle of manducate.
- manducation — The act of eating.
- manicurists — Plural form of manicurist.
- manneristic — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
- mantelpiece — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- mantlepiece — mantel.
- manuduction — the act of directing or guiding.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- marcantonio — Raimondi, Marcantonio.
- mariculture — marine aquaculture.
- mariticidal — Of, or pertaining to, mariticide. Often used to describe a person.
- martensitic — Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite.
- masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
- masculinist — Characterized by or denoting attitudes or values held to be typical of men.
- masculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masochistic — Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
- mass action — Mass action is the effect when continuously adding reactants (= substances that are used in a reaction) to a reaction causes it to generate products continuously.
- masterpiece — a person's greatest piece of work, as in an art.
- mastic tree — a small Mediterranean anacardiaceous evergreen tree, Pistacia lentiscus, that yields the resin mastic
- masticating — Present participle of masticate.
- mastication — The process of chewing.
- masticatory — of, relating to, or used in or for mastication.
- match point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the match.
- matchmaking — An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.
- matchsticks — Plural form of matchstick.
- mathematica — (tool, mathematics) A popular symbolic mathematics and graphics system, developed in 1988 by Stephen Wolfram and sold by Wolfram Research. The language emphasises rules and pattern-matching. The name was suggested by Steve Jobs. Mailing list: [email protected]
- mathematics — (used with a singular verb) the systematic treatment of magnitude, relationships between figures and forms, and relations between quantities expressed symbolically.
- mating call — a sound made by a bird or animal in order to attract a sexual partner
- matriarchal — the female head of a family or tribal line.
- matriarchic — Matriarchal.
- matriculant — a person who matriculates; a candidate for matriculation.
- matriculate — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- matronymics — Plural form of matronymic.
- mccarthyism — the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, especially of pro-Communist activity, in many instances unsupported by proof or based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.
- meal ticket — Carl Owen ("King Carl"; "The Meal Ticket") 1903–88, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- meatpacking — (US) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
- mechanistic — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
- mechatronic — relating to mechatronics
- mechitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
- medicaments — Plural form of medicament.
- medications — Plural form of medication.
- meiotically — Pertaining to, or during, meiosis.
- melanocytic — Of or pertaining to melanocytes.
- mendacities — Plural form of mendacity.