11-letter words containing c, i, s, t
- lobectomies — Plural form of lobectomy.
- lock stitch — a sewing-machine stitch in which two threads are locked together at small intervals.
- locomotions — Plural form of locomotion.
- locomotives — Plural form of locomotive.
- locorestive — having a tendency to rest in one place
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- logistician — a person who is skilled in symbolic logic.
- logomachist — One who starts fights about the meaning of words.
- loop stitch — any stitch, as the chain stitch, that uses loops in the pattern or process of working.
- lotusscript — (language) A Visual BASIC-like scripting language for Lotus Notes and Lotus SmartSuite. LotusScript is object-oriented and can be used for complex Notes programming, although Java is also available.
- lucio costa — Lúcio [loo-syoo] /ˈlu syu/ (Show IPA), 1902–98, Brazilian architect, chief designer of Brasilia.
- luminescent — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
- machinators — Plural form of machinator.
- macintoshes — Plural form of macintosh.
- macrosmatic — Having a good sense of smell.
- magistratic — relating to a magistrate
- 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.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- martensitic — Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite.
- masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
- masculinist — Characterized by or denoting attitudes or values held to be typical of men.
- masculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masochistic — Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
- mass action — Mass action is the effect when continuously adding reactants (= substances that are used in a reaction) to a reaction causes it to generate products continuously.
- 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
- masticating — Present participle of masticate.
- mastication — The process of chewing.
- masticatory — of, relating to, or used in or for mastication.
- matchsticks — Plural form of matchstick.
- mathematics — (used with a singular verb) the systematic treatment of magnitude, relationships between figures and forms, and relations between quantities expressed symbolically.
- 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.
- mechanistic — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
- mechitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
- medicaments — Plural form of medicament.
- medications — Plural form of medication.
- mediumistic — pertaining to a spiritualistic medium.
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- mendacities — Plural form of mendacity.
- 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.
- mesognathic — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
- meta-ethics — the philosophy of ethics dealing with the meaning of ethical terms, the nature of moral discourse, and the foundations of moral principles.
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
- metaphysics — metaphysics.
- metaplasmic — Cell Biology. the nonliving matter or inclusions, as starch or pigments, within a cell.