11-letter words containing m, i, c, a, s, h
- gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
- haemostatic — That promotes haemostasis.
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
- harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
- harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
- hemiacetals — Plural form of hemiacetal.
- hemistichal — of or relating to a hemistich
- hemostatics — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- hetaerismic — of or relating to courtesans
- hetairismic — relating to hetairism, concubinage
- hierarchism — hierarchical principles, rule, or influence.
- hippocampus — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
- hispanicism — an idiom peculiar to Spanish.
- homeostatic — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- homoplastic — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- 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.
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- inasmuch as — to the extent that, in that
- insomuch as — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- logomachies — Plural form of logomachy.
- logomachist — One who starts fights about the meaning of words.
- machi chips — in Indian English, fish and chips
- 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.
- 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
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- masochistic — Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
- matchsticks — Plural form of matchstick.
- mathematics — (used with a singular verb) the systematic treatment of magnitude, relationships between figures and forms, and relations between quantities expressed symbolically.
- mccarthyism — the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, especially of pro-Communist activity, in many instances unsupported by proof or based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.
- mechanicals — (US) mechanical fixtures and fittings.
- mechanistic — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
- mechitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
- merchandise — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- mesognathic — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- meta-ethics — the philosophy of ethics dealing with the meaning of ethical terms, the nature of moral discourse, and the foundations of moral principles.
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
- metaphysics — metaphysics.
- metapsychic — relating to metapsychics
- mica-schist — a schist composed of layers of quartz and mica
- micrographs — Plural form of micrograph.
- microphages — Plural form of microphage.
- midas touch — the ability to turn any business venture one is associated with into an extremely profitable one.
- milch glass — milk glass.
- misch metal — a pyrophoric alloy, containing approximately 50 percent cerium and 45 percent lanthanum, made from a mixture of various rare-earth chlorides by electrolysis.
- mischarging — Present participle of mischarge.