11-letter words containing c, m, o, n
- malcontents — Plural form of malcontent.
- malecontent — Obsolete spelling of malcontent.
- malediction — a curse; imprecation.
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- malevolence — the quality, state, or feeling of being malevolent; ill will; malice; hatred.
- malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- mancipation — (obsolete) slavery.
- mancipatory — relating to mancipation
- manducation — The act of eating.
- manducatory — Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- manuduction — the act of directing or guiding.
- manufactory — a factory.
- marc antony — Antony, Mark.
- marcantonio — Raimondi, Marcantonio.
- march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- marconi rig — a rig of triangular sails for a yacht.
- marconigram — a radiogram.
- masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
- 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.
- mastication — The process of chewing.
- match point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the match.
- matronymics — Plural form of matronymic.
- mechatronic — relating to mechatronics
- mecopterans — Plural form of mecopteran.
- medications — Plural form of medication.
- megalomanic — Afflicted by megalomania.
- melancholia — a mental condition characterized by great depression of spirits and gloomy forebodings.
- melancholic — disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
- melanchthon — Philipp [fil-ip;; German fee-lip] /ˈfɪl ɪp;; German ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), (Philipp Schwarzert) 1497–1560, German Protestant reformer.
- melanochroi — a postulated subdivision of the Caucasoid race, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion
- melanocytes — Plural form of melanocyte.
- melanocytic — Of or pertaining to melanocytes.
- mendication — The act or practice of begging; beggary.
- meningocele — a protrusion of the meninges through an opening in the skull or spinal column, forming a bulge or sac filled with cerebrospinal fluid.
- menoschesis — suppression of menstruation.
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- merogenetic — of or relating to schizogony
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- mesocyclone — a small cyclone that arises near a thunderstorm and is sometimes associated with the occurrence of tornadoes.
- mesognathic — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- mesonephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.
- metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
- metafiction — fiction that discusses, describes, or analyzes a work of fiction or the conventions of fiction.
- metallocene — an organometallic coordination compound consisting of a metal bonded to one or two rings of cyclopentadiene.
- metchnikoff — Élie [French ey-lee] /French eɪˈli/ (Show IPA), (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov) 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.
- metonymical — having the nature of metonymy.
- metrication — the act, process, or result of establishing the metric system as the standard system of measurement.
- mezlocillin — a wide-spectrum semisynthetic penicillin, C 2 1 H 2 5 N 5 O 8 S 2 , used parenterally in the treatment of infections due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa.