11-letter words containing a, l, i, t, r
- madrigalist — a composer or singer of madrigals.
- maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
- magisterial — of, relating to, or befitting a master; authoritative; weighty; of importance or consequence: a magisterial pronouncement by the director of the board.
- magistrally — In a magistral manner; authoritatively; dogmatically.
- mail filter — (messaging) A program which sorts and processes incoming mail based on patterns found in the mail headers.
- mailcatcher — a device on a mail car that, while the train is moving, picks up mailbags suspended beside the track.
- maladroitly — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- malapropist — a person who regularly makes malapropisms
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- 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.
- malt liquor — beer having a relatively high alcohol content, usually 5 to 8 percent.
- maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
- maltreating — Present participle of maltreat.
- mandatorily — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- manipulator — a person who manipulates.
- mare's-tail — a long narrow cirrus cloud whose flowing appearance somewhat resembles a horse's tail.
- marginalist — somene who adheres to the theory of marginalism
- marginality — pertaining to a margin.
- mariculture — marine aquaculture.
- marine belt — territorial waters.
- mariologist — a student of Mariology.
- mariticidal — Of, or pertaining to, mariticide. Often used to describe a person.
- mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
- martial art — Often, martial arts. any of the traditional forms of Asian self-defense or combat that utilize physical skill and coordination without weapons, as karate, aikido, judo, or kung fu, often practiced as sport.
- martial law — the law temporarily imposed upon an area by state or national military forces when civil authority has broken down or during wartime military operations.
- martingales — Plural form of martingale.
- master file — Computers. a permanent file, periodically updated, that serves as an authoritative source of data.
- materialise — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
- materialism — preoccupation with or emphasis on material objects, comforts, and considerations, with a disinterest in or rejection of spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
- materialist — a person who is markedly more concerned with material things than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
- materiality — material nature or quality.
- materialize — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
- maternalism — of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting a mother: maternal instincts.
- maternalize — to make maternal.
- matriarchal — the female head of a family or tribal line.
- matriculant — a person who matriculates; a candidate for matriculation.
- matriculate — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- matrilineal — inheriting or determining descent through the female line.
- matrilinear — inheriting or determining descent through the female line.
- matrimonial — of or relating to matrimony; marital; nuptial; connubial; conjugal.
- mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
- mediatorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a mediator.
- melanterite — a green mineral, FeSO4.7H2O, composed of hydrated ferrous sulphate
- melioration — Historical Linguistics. semantic change in a word to a more approved or more respectable meaning. Compare pejoration (def 2).
- meliorative — That meliorates; curative, salutary.
- memorialist — a person who writes memorials.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- merthiolate — thimerosal
- metallurgic — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- meteoroidal — (astronomy) Of or pertaining to meteoroids. (from 19th c.).