11-letter words containing c, e, r, a, i
- magic paper — An early interactive symbolic mathematics system.
- mailcatcher — a device on a mail car that, while the train is moving, picks up mailbags suspended beside the track.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- major piece — a queen or rook.
- 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.
- 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.
- marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
- marcellus i — Saint, died a.d. 309, pope 308–309.
- marcescible — prone to fade or decay
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- mariculture — marine aquaculture.
- marie curie — Irène [French ee-ren] /French iˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), Joliot-Curie, Irène.
- martensitic — Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite.
- 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
- matriculate — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- 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.
- melanochroi — a postulated subdivision of the Caucasoid race, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion
- mercenaries — Plural form of mercenary.
- mercenarily — In a mercenary way, for selfish reason of profit or gain.
- mercenarism — the state of being a mercenary
- merchandise — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandize — Alternative spelling of merchandise.
- merchanting — the act of selling commodities
- mercurially — In a mercurial manner.
- 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.
- mesoamerica — Anthropology, Archaeology. the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.
- mesocardium — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- metacentric — Naval Architecture. of or relating to a metacenter.
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
- metallurgic — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- metamorphic — pertaining to or characterized by change of form, or metamorphosis.
- metanephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of higher vertebrates, becoming the permanent and functional kidney.
- metatrophic — requiring dead organic matter for food.
- methacrylic — denoting a type of acid
- metrication — the act, process, or result of establishing the metric system as the standard system of measurement.
- mexican war — the war between the U.S. and Mexico, 1846–48.
- michigander — a native or inhabitant of Michigan.
- micro-image — a microreproduction.
- microampere — a unit of electric current, equal to one millionth of an ampere. Symbol: μA.
- microcephal — a person with microcephaly
- microgamete — (in heterogamous reproduction) the smaller and, usually, the male of two conjugating gametes.
- micromanage — to manage or control with excessive attention to minor details.
- micronesian — of or relating to Micronesia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- microphages — Plural form of microphage.
- microreader — a device for projecting an enlarged image of a microfilm or microphotograph, especially on a ground-glass screen.