11-letter words containing m, a, i, l
- misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
- miscellanea — Miscellaneous items, especially literary compositions, that have been collected together.
- misch metal — a pyrophoric alloy, containing approximately 50 percent cerium and 45 percent lanthanum, made from a mixture of various rare-earth chlorides by electrolysis.
- misclassify — To classify incorrectly.
- misdealings — Plural form of misdealing.
- miserablest — Superlative form of miserable.
- misevaluate — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
- mishandling — to handle badly; maltreat: to mishandle a dog.
- mislabeling — Present participle of mislabel.
- mislabelled — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
- misleadings — Plural form of misleading.
- mislearning — Present participle of mislearn.
- mislocation — to misplace.
- misplanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- mispleading — a mistake in pleading, as a misjoinder of parties or a misstatement of a cause of action.
- misregulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- misrelation — an erroneous or imperfect relation
- missile gap — a lag in one country's missile production relative to the production of another country.
- mistakingly — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- mitotically — the usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.
- mitrailleur — (UK, military, obsolete) rapid-fire team-served musket or rifle.
- mixed layer — the surface layer of water, seasonally varying in thickness, that is at almost uniform temperature owing to agitation by waves and wind.
- mixed salad — a salad consisting of mixed salad vegetables, such as lettuce, tomato, cucumber, etc
- modal logic — (logic) An extension of propositional calculus with operators that express various "modes" of truth. Examples of modes are: necessarily A, possibly A, probably A, it has always been true that A, it is permissible that A, it is believed that A. "It is necessarily true that A" means that things being as they are, A must be true, e.g. "It is necessarily true that x=x" is TRUE while "It is necessarily true that x=y" is FALSE even though "x=y" might be TRUE. Adding modal operators [F] and [P], meaning, respectively, henceforth and hitherto leads to a "temporal logic". Flavours of modal logics include: Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL), Propositional Linear Temporal Logic (PLTL), Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), Computational Tree Logic (CTL), Hennessy-Milner Logic, S1-S5, T. C.I. Lewis, "A Survey of Symbolic Logic", 1918, initiated the modern analysis of modality. He developed the logical systems S1-S5. JCC McKinsey used algebraic methods (Boolean algebras with operators) to prove the decidability of Lewis' S2 and S4 in 1941. Saul Kripke developed the relational semantics for modal logics (1959, 1963). Vaughan Pratt introduced dynamic logic in 1976. Amir Pnuelli proposed the use of temporal logic to formalise the behaviour of continually operating concurrent programs in 1977.
- modularised — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modularized — having been made modular or relating to the use of modular concepts or forms
- modulations — Plural form of modulation.
- moldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- molendinary — a mill
- molestation — to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- momentarily — for a moment; briefly: to pause momentarily.
- monadically — Biology. any simple, single-celled organism. any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
- monarchical — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
- monetizable — Able to be converted into cash with relative ease.
- monkey tail — any of various light or short ropes or lines.
- monoblastic — having a single layer, as an embryo in the blastula stage or developing from a single layer.
- monochasial — Relating to the monochasium.
- monolatrism — Belief in multiple deities but worship of only one.
- monolingual — knowing or able to use only one language; monoglot.
- monological — a form of dramatic entertainment, comedic solo, or the like by a single speaker: a comedian's monologue.
- montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)
- monticulate — having low rising mounds or protrusions
- moon pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the moon, believed to be caused by the reflection of moonlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
- moral fiber — Moral fiber is the quality of being determined to do what you think is right.
- moral fibre — Moral fibre is the quality of being determined to do what you think is right.
- morgan hill — a town in W California.
- moronically — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- morrill act — an act of Congress (1862) granting each state 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of land for each member it had in Congress, 90 percent of the gross proceeds of which were to be used for the endowment and maintenance of colleges and universities teaching agricultural and mechanical arts and other subjects.
- mortal mind — the illusion that mind and life arise from matter and are subject to death. Compare mind (def 19).