11-letter words containing m, a, n, c, l
- malecontent — Obsolete spelling of malcontent.
- maledicting — Present participle of maledict.
- malediction — a curse; imprecation.
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- maleficence — the doing of evil or harm: the maleficence of thieves.
- maleficient — Doing evil, harm, or mischief.
- malevolence — the quality, state, or feeling of being malevolent; ill will; malice; hatred.
- malfeasance — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
- malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- manchineels — Plural form of manchineel.
- mantelpiece — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- mantlepiece — mantel.
- marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
- margin call — a demand from a brokerage house to a customer that more money or securities be deposited in his or her margin account when the amount in it falls below that stipulated as necessary to cover the stock purchased.
- masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
- masculinely — In a masculine manner.
- masculinism — An ideology of masculinity; especially, an ideology opposed to, or opposed by, feminism.
- masculinist — Characterized by or denoting attitudes or values held to be typical of men.
- masculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- mating call — a sound made by a bird or animal in order to attract a sexual partner
- matriculant — a person who matriculates; a candidate for matriculation.
- mechanicals — (US) mechanical fixtures and fittings.
- medical man — a doctor of medicine
- medicinable — medicinal.
- medicinally — of, relating to, or having the properties of a medicine; curative; remedial: medicinal properties; medicinal substances.
- megalomanic — Afflicted by megalomania.
- melancholia — a mental condition characterized by great depression of spirits and gloomy forebodings.
- melancholic — disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
- melanchthon — Philipp [fil-ip;; German fee-lip] /ˈfɪl ɪp;; German ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), (Philipp Schwarzert) 1497–1560, German Protestant reformer.
- melanochroi — a postulated subdivision of the Caucasoid race, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion
- melanocytes — Plural form of melanocyte.
- melanocytic — Of or pertaining to melanocytes.
- mentalistic — the doctrine that objects of knowledge have no existence except in the mind of the perceiver.
- mercenarily — In a mercenary way, for selfish reason of profit or gain.
- mesalliance — a marriage with someone who is considered socially inferior; misalliance.
- mescal bean — an evergreen shrub or small tree, Sophora secundiflora, of the legume family, of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having clusters of fragrant, violet-blue flowers and pods containing highly poisonous, bright red seeds.
- mesenchymal — Of or pertaining to the mesenchyme.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
- metallocene — an organometallic coordination compound consisting of a metal bonded to one or two rings of cyclopentadiene.
- metonymical — having the nature of metonymy.
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- mimic panel — a panel simulating the geographical layout of a television studio, railway points system, traffic interchange, etc, in which small indicator lamps display the selected state of the lighting circuits, signalling, traffic lights, etc
- minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
- miracle man — a person who performs or appears to perform miracles.
- miracle-man — a man who is capable of miraculous feats
- misalliance — an improper or incompatible association, especially in marriage; mésalliance.
- misbalanced — badly balanced