13-letter words containing c, o, a, e
- major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- maliciousness — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malleoincudal — Of or relating to both the malleus and the incus.
- maltese cross — a cross having four equal arms that expand in width outward.
- mango chutney — chutney which contains or is made from the fruit mango
- mangrove jack — a predatory food and game fish, Lutjanus argentimaculatus, of Australian rivers and tidal creeks dominated by mangroves
- manhole cover — a removable metal plate covering a shaft that leads down to a sewer or drain
- manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- many-coloured — having many colours
- marchionesses — Plural form of marchioness.
- mare chronium — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- master policy — a single policy covering a group of people, typically employees of a company, issued to an employer.
- masticatories — Plural form of masticatory.
- mastoidectomy — the removal of part of a mastoid process, usually for draining an infection.
- matched order — an order placed with a broker to buy a specified stock at a price above the market price with the intention of immediately selling the stock through another broker at the same price. It is designed to give the appearance of active trading in the stock.
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- mechanisation — Alternative spelling of mechanization.
- mechanization — to make mechanical.
- medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
- megacaryocyte — Alternative form of megakaryocyte.
- megakaryocyte — a large bone-marrow cell having a lobulate nucleus, regarded as the source of blood platelets.
- megaloblastic — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
- megalocephaly — Cephalometry, Craniometry. macrocephalic.
- megalomaniacs — Plural form of megalomaniac.
- megasporocyte — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- mellification — the production of honey from nectar
- melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
- melvin conway — (person) An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
- membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
- meningococcal — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or caused by meningococci.
- mercerisation — A process of treating cotton with sodium hydroxide in order to make it more lustrous.
- mercerization — to treat (cotton yarns or fabric) with caustic alkali under tension, in order to increase strength, luster, and affinity for dye.
- meritocracies — Plural form of meritocracy.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- mesencephalon — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- mesocephalism — mesocephaly
- mesocephalous — Alternative form of mesocephalic.
- metabolically — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- metachromasia — A characteristic change in the colour of staining carried out in biological tissues, exhibited by certain aniline dyes when they bind to particular substances present in these tissues, called chromotropes.
- metachromatic — change of color, especially that due to variation in the temperature of a body.
- metacognition — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
- metacognitive — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.