11-letter words containing a, r, c, t
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- malefactory — villainous
- 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.
- mancipatory — relating to mancipation
- manducatory — Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
- 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.
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- manufactory — a factory.
- manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- marc antony — Antony, Mark.
- marcantonio — Raimondi, Marcantonio.
- mariculture — marine aquaculture.
- mariticidal — Of, or pertaining to, mariticide. Often used to describe a person.
- marketplace — an open area in a town where a market is held.
- marsh tacky — a small, sometimes half-wild horse of the coastal marshes.
- martensitic — Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite.
- mascot rage — aggressive behaviour by mascots at sporting events
- master card — a card that cannot be beaten
- master copy — an original copy, stencil, tape, etc, from which duplicates are made
- master race — a people or nation, as the Germans during the Nazi period, whose members consider themselves genetically superior to all others and therefore justified in conquering and ruling them.
- masterclass — a small class for advanced students, especially a class in performance skills conducted by a distinguished musician.
- 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
- masticatory — of, relating to, or used in or for mastication.
- matchboards — Plural form of matchboard.
- matchmakers — Plural form of matchmaker.
- 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.
- 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.
- mecopterans — Plural form of mecopteran.
- megacoaster — (informal) A rollercoaster with a height of between 200 and 299 feet.
- megaproject — A very large public investment project, especially one costing more than one billion US dollars.
- merchanting — the act of selling commodities
- merchantman — a trading ship.
- merchantmen — Plural form of merchantman.
- meritocracy — an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- meta-centre — the intersection between two vertical lines, one through the center of buoyancy of a hull in equilibrium, the other through the center of buoyancy when the hull is inclined slightly to one side or toward one end: the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the initial stability of the hull.
- metacarpals — Plural form of metacarpal.
- metacenters — Plural form of metacenter.
- metacentric — Naval Architecture. of or relating to a metacenter.
- metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour