11-letter words containing a, l, c, m, o
- macrofossil — a fossil large enough to be studied and identified without the use of a microscope.
- macronuclei — Plural form of macronucleus.
- macrophylum — a group of languages that are of a higher order than a phylum
- major scale — a scale consisting of a series of whole steps except for half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth degrees.
- malacophily — pollination of plants by snails
- malcolm iii — died 1093, king of Scotland (1057–93). He became king after Macbeth
- malcontents — Plural form of malcontent.
- malecontent — Obsolete spelling of malcontent.
- malediction — a curse; imprecation.
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- malefactory — villainous
- malevolence — the quality, state, or feeling of being malevolent; ill will; malice; hatred.
- malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- maliciously — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
- medicolegal — pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine.
- megalomanic — Afflicted by megalomania.
- meiotically — Pertaining to, or during, meiosis.
- melancholia — a mental condition characterized by great depression of spirits and gloomy forebodings.
- melancholic — disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
- melanchthon — Philipp [fil-ip;; German fee-lip] /ˈfɪl ɪp;; German ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), (Philipp Schwarzert) 1497–1560, German Protestant reformer.
- melanochroi — a postulated subdivision of the Caucasoid race, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion
- melanocytes — Plural form of melanocyte.
- melanocytic — Of or pertaining to melanocytes.
- melodically — melodious.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- mesopelagic — of, relating to, or living in the ocean at a depth of between 600 feet (180 meters) and 3000 feet (900 meters).
- metabolical — Alternative form of metabolic.
- metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
- metallocene — an organometallic coordination compound consisting of a metal bonded to one or two rings of cyclopentadiene.
- metonymical — having the nature of metonymy.
- microcephal — a person with microcephaly
- micrococcal — Of, pertaining to, or caused by a micrococcus.
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- microfloral — Of or pertaining to microflora.
- microvillar — Of or pertaining to a microvillus.
- minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
- misallocate — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- mislocation — to misplace.
- mitotically — the usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.
- modal logic — (logic) An extension of propositional calculus with operators that express various "modes" of truth. Examples of modes are: necessarily A, possibly A, probably A, it has always been true that A, it is permissible that A, it is believed that A. "It is necessarily true that A" means that things being as they are, A must be true, e.g. "It is necessarily true that x=x" is TRUE while "It is necessarily true that x=y" is FALSE even though "x=y" might be TRUE. Adding modal operators [F] and [P], meaning, respectively, henceforth and hitherto leads to a "temporal logic". Flavours of modal logics include: Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL), Propositional Linear Temporal Logic (PLTL), Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), Computational Tree Logic (CTL), Hennessy-Milner Logic, S1-S5, T. C.I. Lewis, "A Survey of Symbolic Logic", 1918, initiated the modern analysis of modality. He developed the logical systems S1-S5. JCC McKinsey used algebraic methods (Boolean algebras with operators) to prove the decidability of Lewis' S2 and S4 in 1941. Saul Kripke developed the relational semantics for modal logics (1959, 1963). Vaughan Pratt introduced dynamic logic in 1976. Amir Pnuelli proposed the use of temporal logic to formalise the behaviour of continually operating concurrent programs in 1977.
- molecularly — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- monadically — Biology. any simple, single-celled organism. any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
- monarchical — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961