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11-letter words containing m, e, c

  • macadamizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of macadamize.
  • macdesigner — A design CASE tool for the Mac from Excel Software, Inc.
  • macebearers — Plural form of macebearer.
  • maceranduba — the milk tree, native to Brazil
  • mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • macro-level — at or on a level that is large in scale or scope: macrolevel research on crime rates in urban areas.
  • macrogamete — (in heterogamous reproduction) the larger and usually female of a pair of conjugating gametes.
  • macromanage — (transitive) To manage using macro-management.
  • macronuclei — Plural form of macronucleus.
  • macrophages — Plural form of macrophage.
  • macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
  • macrospores — Plural form of macrospore.
  • macrosystem — A programming system in which small constructs (macros) represent groups of machine instructions.
  • madefaction — the process of making wet
  • maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
  • 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
  • magnetician — a scientist who specialises in magnetism
  • magnificent — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
  • magnificoes — Plural form of magnifico.
  • 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 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 office — headquarters
  • maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
  • major piece — a queen or rook.
  • major scale — a scale consisting of a series of whole steps except for half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth degrees.
  • make a buck — If you are trying to make a buck, you are trying to earn some money.
  • make a face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
  • make change — If you make change, you give someone smaller notes, bills, or coins, in exchange for the same value of larger ones.
  • make tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • malcontents — Plural form of malcontent.
  • malebranche — Nicolas de [nee-kaw-lah duh] /ni kɔˈlɑ də/ (Show IPA), 1638–1715, French philosopher.
  • malecontent — Obsolete spelling of malcontent.
  • maledicting — Present participle of maledict.
  • malediction — a curse; imprecation.
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