11-letter words containing h, a, m, i
- lymphopenia — a reduction in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- machi chips — in Indian English, fish and chips
- machiavelli — Niccolò di Bernardo [neek-kaw-law dee ber-nahr-daw] /ˌnik kɔˈlɔ di bɛrˈnɑr dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1469–1527, Italian statesman, political philosopher, and author.
- machicolate — to provide with machicolations.
- machinating — Present participle of machinate.
- machination — an act or instance of machinating.
- machinators — Plural form of machinator.
- machine age — the period in the early 20th century when there was greater production and more new inventions of machinery than previously, and considered to be at a peak between the first and second world wars
- machine gun — automatic firearm
- machine-gun — to shoot at with a machine gun.
- machineable — Alternative form of machinable.
- machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
- machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
- machineries — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- macintoshes — Plural form of macintosh.
- macrophagic — Of or pertaining to macrophages.
- macrophytic — Relating to macrophytes.
- magpie moth — a geometrid moth, Abraxas grossulariata, showing variable patterning in black on white or yellow, whose looper larvae attack currant and gooseberry bushes. The paler clouded magpie is A. sylvata
- mahasamadhi — the highest state of samadhi.
- maidenheads — Plural form of maidenhead.
- maidenhoods — Plural form of maidenhood.
- mailcatcher — a device on a mail car that, while the train is moving, picks up mailbags suspended beside the track.
- main chance — an opportunity offering the greatest gain: Being ambitious, he always had an eye for the main chance.
- main gauche — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
- makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
- malacophily — pollination of plants by snails
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- mammy chair — a slinglike device for raising or lowering passengers to and from ships anchored away from the shore in a heavy swell.
- 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.
- manhandling — to handle roughly.
- maniaphobia — Fear of being insane.
- 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
- manila hemp — a fibrous material made from the leafstalks of the abacá, Musa textilis, used for making ropes, fabrics, etc.
- mannishness — The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity.
- marathonian — a native or inhabitant of Marathon.
- marathoning — the sport of running marathons
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- marshalling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshalship — The position or role of a marshal.
- mashie iron — a club with an iron head, the face having more slope than a mid-mashie but less slope than a mashie.
- masochistic — Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
- 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.
- matchmaking — An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.
- matchsticks — Plural form of matchstick.
- mathematica — (tool, mathematics) A popular symbolic mathematics and graphics system, developed in 1988 by Stephen Wolfram and sold by Wolfram Research. The language emphasises rules and pattern-matching. The name was suggested by Steve Jobs. Mailing list: [email protected]
- mathematics — (used with a singular verb) the systematic treatment of magnitude, relationships between figures and forms, and relations between quantities expressed symbolically.
- mathematise — express in mathematical terms
- mathematize — to reduce to a mathematical formula or problem; regard in purely mathematical terms.
- matriarchal — the female head of a family or tribal line.