11-letter words containing c, o, n, s, i, m
- microgreens — the shoots of young salad plants, served as a vegetable dish
- microinches — Plural form of microinch.
- micronesian — of or relating to Micronesia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- microphones — Plural form of microphone.
- microsecond — a unit of time equal to one millionth of a second. Symbol: μsec.
- microsensor — a miniature electronic device used to detect changes in the environment.
- midsections — Plural form of midsection.
- millisecond — one thousandth of a second. Abbreviation: msec.
- mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
- mini-course — a brief intensive course of study
- minicourses — Plural form of minicourse.
- minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
- misbecoming — Present participle of misbecome.
- miscegenous — Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
- miscitation — an erroneous citation
- misconceive — Fail to understand correctly.
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- miscounting — Present participle of miscount.
- miscreation — miscreated.
- misfunction — malfunction.
- mislocation — to misplace.
- misocapnist — (rare) One who hates tobacco smoke.
- misoneistic — hatred or dislike of what is new or represents change.
- mochaccinos — Plural form of mochaccino.
- modernistic — modern.
- monarchists — Plural form of monarchist.
- monasticism — the monastic system, condition, or mode of life.
- monergistic — the doctrine that the Holy Ghost acts independently of the human will in the work of regeneration. Compare synergism (def 3).
- monoblastic — having a single layer, as an embryo in the blastula stage or developing from a single layer.
- monochasial — Relating to the monochasium.
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- monoclinous — (of a plant, species, etc.) having both the stamens and pistils in the same flower.
- monocracies — Plural form of monocracy.
- monogastric — (biology) Having a simple single-chambered stomach.
- monticolous — existing or having a habitat in or on mountains
- most-pontic — pertaining to the Pontus Euxinus or to Pontus.
- musculation — (anatomy) The muscular system of an animal, or of any of its parts.
- myonecrosis — Necrosis of muscle tissue.
- nematocides — Plural form of nematocide.
- neo-fascism — a modern right-wing political movement that includes significant elements of fascism, esp inspired by fascist Italy
- neuroticism — the state of having traits or symptoms characteristic of neurosis.
- nicol prism — one of a pair of prisms used to produce and analyze plane-polarized light in a polarizing microscope. Also called Nicol. Compare polarizer (def 1).
- nimzowitsch — Aaron Isayevich (ɪˈzaɪjɛvɪtʃ) 1886–1935, Latvian chess player and theorist; influential in enunciating the principles of the hypermodern school, of which he was the main instigator
- nincompoops — Plural form of nincompoop.
- nondomestic — not domestic, esp not relating to the home or native country
- nonmiscible — not capable of being mixed.
- nonmusician — a person who is not a musician
- nonmystical — not mystical
- nonorgasmic — not involving or resulting in orgasm, not able to orgasm
- nonsemantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.