11-letter words containing m, a, n, s, c
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- gonycampsis — abnormal curvature of the knee.
- gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
- gymnastical — Alternative form of gymnastic.
- gynaecomast — a man who suffers from gynaecomastia
- harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
- harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
- hispanicism — an idiom peculiar to Spanish.
- hyoscyamine — a poisonous alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from henbane and other solanaceous plants, used as a sedative, analgesic, mydriatic, and antispasmodic.
- importances — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- impuissance — Impotence, weakness.
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- inasmuch as — to the extent that, in that
- incompassed — Simple past tense and past participle of incompass.
- informatics — the study of information processing; computer science.
- insectarium — a place in which a collection of living insects is kept, as in a zoo.
- insomuch as — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- isomagnetic — noting or pertaining to points of equal magnetic force.
- jack salmon — walleye (def 1).
- macdesigner — A design CASE tool for the Mac from Excel Software, Inc.
- machinators — Plural form of machinator.
- machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
- machineries — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- macintoshes — Plural form of macintosh.
- magnificoes — Plural form of magnifico.
- 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.
- malcontents — Plural form of malcontent.
- 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.
- manchineels — Plural form of manchineel.
- 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
- manicurists — Plural form of manicurist.
- 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.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
- marcescence — withering but not falling off, as a part of a plant.
- marcheshvan — Heshvan.
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- martensitic — Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite.
- 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).
- mass action — Mass action is the effect when continuously adding reactants (= substances that are used in a reaction) to a reaction causes it to generate products continuously.
- masticating — Present participle of masticate.
- mastication — The process of chewing.
- matronymics — Plural form of matronymic.