11-letter words containing m, e, s, a
- make use of — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
- maladjusted — badly or unsatisfactorily adjusted, especially in relationship to one's social circumstances, environment, etc.
- malcontents — Plural form of malcontent.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- 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.
- malignities — Plural form of malignity.
- malingerers — Plural form of malingerer.
- mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
- maltese cat — a bluish-gray variety of the domestic cat.
- maltese dog — one of a breed of toy dogs having a long, straight, silky white coat.
- maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
- mammiferous — having mammae; mammalian.
- managership — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- manchineels — Plural form of manchineel.
- mandataries — Plural form of mandatary.
- mandatories — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mandlestone — The amygdaloid.
- manganesian — (chemistry) manganic.
- manganosite — (mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing manganese and oxygen.
- mangosteens — Plural form of mangosteen.
- 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
- manifestant — a person who initiates or participates in a public demonstration; demonstrator.
- manifesting — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manifestoes — Plural form of manifesto.
- manipulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manipulate.
- 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.
- manniferous — resulting in or producing manna
- mannishness — The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity.
- manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
- manstealing — the act of kidnapping.
- mantelshelf — mantel (def 2).
- manteltrees — Plural form of manteltree.
- maple sugar — a yellowish-brown sugar produced by boiling down maple syrup.
- maple syrup — a syrup produced by partially boiling down the sap of the sugar maple or of any of several other maple trees.
- marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
- marcellus i — Saint, died a.d. 309, pope 308–309.
- marcescence — withering but not falling off, as a part of a plant.
- marcescible — prone to fade or decay
- marcheshvan — Heshvan.
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- mare island — an island in the N part of San Francisco Bay, California.
- mare's-nest — something imagined to be an extraordinary discovery but proving to be a delusion or a hoax: The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare's-nest.
- mare's-tail — a long narrow cirrus cloud whose flowing appearance somewhat resembles a horse's tail.
- marginalise — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- margravates — Plural form of margravate.
- margravines — Plural form of margravine.
- marguerites — Plural form of marguerite.
- marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
- marionettes — Plural form of marionette.