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11-letter words containing e, m, s, i

  • maggotiness — The state of being maggoty.
  • magic smoke — (electronics, humour)   A substance trapped inside integrated circuit packages that enables them to function (also called "blue smoke"; this is similar to the archaic "phlogiston" hypothesis about combustion). Its existence is demonstrated by what happens when a chip burns up - the magic smoke gets let out, so it doesn't work any more. See Electing a Pope, smoke test. "Once, while hacking on a dedicated Zilog Z80 system, I was testing code by blowing EPROMs and plugging them in the system then seeing what happened. One time, I plugged one in backward. I only discovered that *after* I realised that Intel didn't put power-on lights under the quartz windows on the tops of their EPROMs - the die was glowing white-hot. Amazingly, the EPROM worked fine after I erased it, filled it full of zeros, then erased it again. For all I know, it's still in service. Of course, this is because the magic smoke didn't get let out." Compare the original phrasing of Murphy's Law.
  • magic spell — incantation or curse
  • magisterial — of, relating to, or befitting a master; authoritative; weighty; of importance or consequence: a magisterial pronouncement by the director of the board.
  • magisterium — the authority and power of the church to teach religious truth.
  • magistrates — Plural form of magistrate.
  • maglemosian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the first Mesolithic culture of the northern European plain, adapted to forest and waterside habitats and characterized by flint axes, microliths, and bone and antler equipment used in hunting and fishing.
  • magnetising — Present participle of magnetise.
  • magnificoes — Plural form of magnifico.
  • maidenheads — Plural form of maidenhead.
  • maidenhoods — Plural form of maidenhood.
  • maidservant — a female servant.
  • mail orders — goods that have been ordered by mail order
  • mail server — 1.   (tool, messaging)   A program that distributes files or information in response to requests sent via electronic mail. Examples on the Internet include Almanac and netlib. Mail servers are also used on Bitnet. In the days before Internet access was widespread and UUCP mail links were common, mail servers could be used to provide remote services which might now be provided via FTP or WWW. 2.   (messaging)   (Or "mail hub") A computer used to store and/or forward electronic mail.
  • mailed fist — superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.
  • mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
  • main clause — a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb, as I was there in the sentence I was there when he arrived.
  • main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
  • main street — a novel (1920) by Sinclair Lewis.
  • mainlanders — Plural form of mainlander.
  • mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
  • mainstreams — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mainstream.
  • maintainers — Plural form of maintainer.
  • maisonettes — Plural form of maisonette.
  • makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
  • malignities — Plural form of malignity.
  • malingerers — Plural form of malingerer.
  • maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
  • mammiferous — having mammae; mammalian.
  • managership — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
  • manchineels — Plural form of manchineel.
  • mandataries — Plural form of mandatary.
  • mandatories — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
  • manganesian — (chemistry) manganic.
  • manganosite — (mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing manganese and oxygen.
  • manichaeism — the system of religious doctrines, including elements of Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Buddhism, etc, taught by the Persian prophet Mani about the 3rd century ad. It was based on a supposed primordial conflict between light and darkness, or goodness and evil
  • manifestant — a person who initiates or participates in a public demonstration; demonstrator.
  • manifesting — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
  • manifestoes — Plural form of manifesto.
  • manipulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manipulate.
  • 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.
  • manniferous — resulting in or producing manna
  • mannishness — The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity.
  • manstealing — the act of kidnapping.
  • marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
  • marcellus i — Saint, died a.d. 309, pope 308–309.
  • marcescible — prone to fade or decay
  • marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
  • mare island — an island in the N part of San Francisco Bay, California.
  • mare's-tail — a long narrow cirrus cloud whose flowing appearance somewhat resembles a horse's tail.
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