11-letter words containing c, e, t, a, l
- lieutenancy — the office, authority, incumbency, or jurisdiction of a lieutenant.
- life jacket — a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable construction, for supporting the wearer in deep water and preventing drowning.
- lifecasting — The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
- light cream — sweet cream with less butterfat than heavy cream.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- linecasting — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
- live action — of or relating to movies, videos, and the like, that feature real performers, as distinguished from animation: A new live-action version of the classic animated film will be released later this year.
- live-action — of or relating to movies, videos, and the like, that feature real performers, as distinguished from animation: A new live-action version of the classic animated film will be released later this year.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- locust bean — carob.
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucratively — In a lucrative manner, profitably.
- luff tackle — a tackle having a double block and a single block, giving a mechanical advantage of three or four, neglecting friction, depending on which is the standing and which is the running block.
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- machicolate — to provide with machicolations.
- maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
- magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- mailcatcher — a device on a mail car that, while the train is moving, picks up mailbags suspended beside the track.
- malcontents — Plural form of malcontent.
- malecontent — Obsolete spelling of malcontent.
- maledicting — Present participle of maledict.
- malediction — a curse; imprecation.
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- malefactory — villainous
- maleficient — Doing evil, harm, or mischief.
- 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.
- maltese cat — a bluish-gray variety of the domestic cat.
- mantelpiece — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- mantlepiece — mantel.
- mariculture — marine aquaculture.
- marketplace — an open area in a town where a market is held.
- masterclass — a small class for advanced students, especially a class in performance skills conducted by a distinguished musician.
- match plate — a plate on which patterns are set to be molded.
- matchlessly — In a matchless manner.
- matriculate — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- meal ticket — Carl Owen ("King Carl"; "The Meal Ticket") 1903–88, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- meiotically — Pertaining to, or during, meiosis.
- melanchthon — Philipp [fil-ip;; German fee-lip] /ˈfɪl ɪp;; German ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), (Philipp Schwarzert) 1497–1560, German Protestant reformer.
- melanocytes — Plural form of melanocyte.
- melanocytic — Of or pertaining to melanocytes.
- mentalistic — the doctrine that objects of knowledge have no existence except in the mind of the perceiver.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
- metabolical — Alternative form of metabolic.
- metacarpals — Plural form of metacarpal.
- metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.