11-letter words containing m, i, d
- mahasamadhi — the highest state of samadhi.
- maid marian — one of the characters in the old morris dance and May Day festivities; May queen.
- maiden aunt — A maiden aunt is an aunt who is not married.
- maiden lady — an unmarried woman
- maiden name — a woman's surname before her marriage.
- maiden over — Cricket. an over in which no runs are made.
- maiden pink — a turf-forming plant, Dianthus deltoides , found from western Europe to eastern Asia, having red or pink flowers.
- maidenheads — Plural form of maidenhead.
- maidenhoods — Plural form of maidenhood.
- maidservant — a female servant.
- mail bridge — (messaging) A mail gateway that forwards electronic mail messages between two or more networks if they meet certain administrative criteria.
- mail orders — goods that have been ordered by mail order
- mailed fist — superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.
- main-de-fer — manifer.
- mainlanders — Plural form of mainlander.
- major triad — a triad consisting in root position of a root tone with a major third and a perfect fifth above.
- maladaptive — of, relating to, or characterized by maladaptation or incomplete, inadequate, or faulty adaptation: The maladaptive behavior of isolated children was difficult to change.
- maladroitly — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- maledicting — Present participle of maledict.
- malediction — a curse; imprecation.
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- maleic acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 4 H 4 O 4 , isomeric with fumaric acid, having an astringent, repulsive taste and faint acidulous odor: used in the manufacture of synthetic resins, the dyeing and finishing of textiles, and as a preservative for fats and oils.
- malted milk — a soluble powder made of dehydrated milk and malted cereals.
- mandarinate — the status or position of a mandarin.
- mandarinism — A government of mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins.
- mandataries — Plural form of mandatary.
- mandatories — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mandatorily — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- mandolinist — One who plays the mandolin.
- manducating — Present participle of manducate.
- manducation — The act of eating.
- manhandling — to handle roughly.
- manipulated — Simple past tense and past participle of manipulate.
- manuduction — the act of directing or guiding.
- māori bread — bread made with fermented potato yeast
- map-reading — the act or skill of interpreting the significance of a geographical map
- maquiladora — a factory run by a U.S. company in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulation.
- mare island — an island in the N part of San Francisco Bay, California.
- mariticidal — Of, or pertaining to, mariticide. Often used to describe a person.
- marivaudage — Writing style characterized by the refined affection, originating from the writing of the French novelist w Pierre de Marivaux.
- marmalading — Present participle of marmalade.
- mass medium — any of the means of communication, as television or newspapers, that reach very large numbers of people.
- masson disk — a white disk on which a series of concentric gray circles appear to vanish intermittently when the disk is rotated, used for testing a person's fluctuation of attention and visual threshold.
- master disk — an original disk from which duplicates are made
- masterminds — Plural form of mastermind.
- mastoiditis — inflammation of the mastoid process.
- maudlinness — The quality of being maudlin.
- maunderings — Plural form of maundering.
- maxillipeds — Plural form of maxilliped.