11-letter words containing e, m, o, c, r
- macrosystem — A programming system in which small constructs (macros) represent groups of machine instructions.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- major piece — a queen or rook.
- major scale — a scale consisting of a series of whole steps except for half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth degrees.
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- malefactory — villainous
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- march-order — to prepare (personnel, arms, and equipment) for a march.
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- mascot rage — aggressive behaviour by mascots at sporting events
- master copy — an original copy, stencil, tape, etc, from which duplicates are made
- mechatronic — relating to mechatronics
- mecopterans — Plural form of mecopteran.
- mecopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
- megacoaster — (informal) A rollercoaster with a height of between 200 and 299 feet.
- megaproject — A very large public investment project, especially one costing more than one billion US dollars.
- melanochroi — a postulated subdivision of the Caucasoid race, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- memory card — a very small, portable electronic device for flash-memory data storage, as in a digital camera, cell phone, or digital media player.
- memory cell — any small, long-lived lymphocyte that has previously encountered a given antigen and that on reexposure to the same antigen rapidly initiates the immune response (memory T cell) or proliferates and produces large amounts of specific antibody (memory B cell) the agent of lasting immunity.
- memory chip — In a computer, the memory chip is the microchip in which information is stored.
- meritocracy — an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- merogenetic — of or relating to schizogony
- meromorphic — of or relating to a function that is analytic, except for poles, in a given domain.
- mesoamerica — Anthropology, Archaeology. the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.
- mesocardium — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- mesomorphic — pertaining to or having a muscular or sturdy body build characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic mesoderm (contrasted with ectomorphic, endomorphic).
- 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.
- mesospheric — Of or pertaining to the mesosphere.
- mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
- metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
- metamorphic — pertaining to or characterized by change of form, or metamorphosis.
- metatrophic — requiring dead organic matter for food.
- meteoritics — the science that deals with meteors.
- metrication — the act, process, or result of establishing the metric system as the standard system of measurement.
- micro-image — a microreproduction.
- microampere — a unit of electric current, equal to one millionth of an ampere. Symbol: μA.
- microbicide — a substance or preparation for killing microbes.
- microbrewed — Produced by microbrewing.
- microbrewer — The person or company that operates a microbrewery.
- microbubble — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microcephal — a person with microcephaly
- microcredit — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- microcuries — Plural form of microcurie.
- microfibers — Plural form of microfiber.
- microfilmed — Simple past tense and past participle of microfilm.