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

madreporite — a sievelike plate in certain echinoderms, through which water passes into the vascular system.
maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
magdalenian — of or relating to the final Paleolithic culture of much of western Europe, dating from c13,000–10,000 b.c. and notable for its artifacts of bone, antler, and ivory and for the cave art of western France and northeastern Spain.
magen david — Star of David.
maggotiness — The state of being maggoty.
magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
magic paper — An early interactive symbolic mathematics system.
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.
magnetician — a scientist who specialises in magnetism
magnetising — Present participle of magnetise.
magnetizing — Present participle of magnetize.
magnetotail — the narrow and elongated region of the magnetosphere of the earth or of another planet that extends in the direction away from the sun.
magnificent — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
magnificoes — Plural form of magnifico.
magpie lark — a black-and-white pied bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, inhabiting areas near water in Australia and southern New Guinea.
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
maiden aunt — A maiden aunt is an aunt who is not married.
maiden lady — an unmarried woman
maiden name — a woman's surname before her marriage.
maiden over — Cricket. an over in which no runs are made.
maiden pink — a turf-forming plant, Dianthus deltoides , found from western Europe to eastern Asia, having red or pink flowers.
maidenheads — Plural form of maidenhead.
maidenhoods — Plural form of maidenhood.
maidservant — a female servant.
mail bridge — (messaging) A mail gateway that forwards electronic mail messages between two or more networks if they meet certain administrative criteria.
mail filter — (messaging) A program which sorts and processes incoming mail based on patterns found in the mail headers.
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.
mailcatcher — a device on a mail car that, while the train is moving, picks up mailbags suspended beside the track.
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 chance — an opportunity offering the greatest gain: Being ambitious, he always had an eye for the main chance.
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 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.
main market — the market for trading in the listed securities of companies on the London Stock Exchange
main memory — program-addressable storage that is directly controlled by and generally contained in the CPU: except for cache storage, the fastest type of storage available to any computer system.
main office — headquarters
main street — a novel (1920) by Sinclair Lewis.
main-de-fer — manifer.
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.
maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.

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