11-letter words containing m, e, r, o, c, i
- macronuclei — Plural form of macronucleus.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- major piece — a queen or rook.
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- mechatronic — relating to mechatronics
- melanochroi — a postulated subdivision of the Caucasoid race, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- memory chip — In a computer, the memory chip is the microchip in which information is stored.
- meritocracy — an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- merogenetic — of or relating to schizogony
- meromorphic — of or relating to a function that is analytic, except for poles, in a given domain.
- mesoamerica — Anthropology, Archaeology. the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.
- mesocardium — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- mesomorphic — pertaining to or having a muscular or sturdy body build characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic mesoderm (contrasted with ectomorphic, endomorphic).
- mesonephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.
- mesospheric — Of or pertaining to the mesosphere.
- mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
- metamorphic — pertaining to or characterized by change of form, or metamorphosis.
- metatrophic — requiring dead organic matter for food.
- meteoritics — the science that deals with meteors.
- metrication — the act, process, or result of establishing the metric system as the standard system of measurement.
- micro-image — a microreproduction.
- microampere — a unit of electric current, equal to one millionth of an ampere. Symbol: μA.
- microbicide — a substance or preparation for killing microbes.
- microbrewed — Produced by microbrewing.
- microbrewer — The person or company that operates a microbrewery.
- microbubble — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microcephal — a person with microcephaly
- microcredit — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- microcuries — Plural form of microcurie.
- microfibers — Plural form of microfiber.
- microfilmed — Simple past tense and past participle of microfilm.
- microfilmer — a person who microfilms
- microfilter — a device plugged into a phone socket to separate the phone line from the broadband line
- microgamete — (in heterogamous reproduction) the smaller and, usually, the male of two conjugating gametes.
- microgreens — the shoots of young salad plants, served as a vegetable dish
- microgroove — a needle groove so narrow that over 200 can be cut in an inch of playing surface on a long-playing record.
- microinches — Plural form of microinch.
- microinject — to inject into a single cell or cell part.
- microkernel — (operating system) An approach to operating system design emphasising small modules that implement the basic features of the system kernel and can be flexibly configured.
- microlender — A person or company in the business of microlending.
- micromanage — to manage or control with excessive attention to minor details.
- micrometers — Plural form of micrometer.
- micromethod — the use of magnification, usually by using a microscope, for study or for performing mechanical operations on a very small scale.
- micrometric — Of or pertaining to micrometry.
- microneedle — a very fine needle that is used in the performance of delicate procedures, esp biological ones