11-letter words containing m, i, e, t, c
- 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.
- magnetician — a scientist who specialises in magnetism
- magnificent — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
- mailcatcher — a device on a mail car that, while the train is moving, picks up mailbags suspended beside the track.
- maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
- maledicting — Present participle of maledict.
- malediction — a curse; imprecation.
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- maleficient — Doing evil, harm, or mischief.
- malpractice — Law. failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows.
- 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.
- mantelpiece — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- mantlepiece — mantel.
- mariculture — marine aquaculture.
- martensitic — Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite.
- masterpiece — a person's greatest piece of work, as in an art.
- mastic tree — a small Mediterranean anacardiaceous evergreen tree, Pistacia lentiscus, that yields the resin mastic
- mathematica — (tool, mathematics) A popular symbolic mathematics and graphics system, developed in 1988 by Stephen Wolfram and sold by Wolfram Research. The language emphasises rules and pattern-matching. The name was suggested by Steve Jobs. Mailing list: [email protected]
- mathematics — (used with a singular verb) the systematic treatment of magnitude, relationships between figures and forms, and relations between quantities expressed symbolically.
- matriculate — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- meal ticket — Carl Owen ("King Carl"; "The Meal Ticket") 1903–88, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- meatpacking — (US) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
- mechanistic — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
- mechatronic — relating to mechatronics
- mechitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
- medicaments — Plural form of medicament.
- medications — Plural form of medication.
- mediumistic — pertaining to a spiritualistic medium.
- meiotically — Pertaining to, or during, meiosis.
- melanocytic — Of or pertaining to melanocytes.
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- mendacities — Plural form of mendacity.
- mendication — The act or practice of begging; beggary.
- mentalistic — the doctrine that objects of knowledge have no existence except in the mind of the perceiver.
- merchanting — the act of selling commodities
- 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
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
- mesognathic — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
- meta-ethics — the philosophy of ethics dealing with the meaning of ethical terms, the nature of moral discourse, and the foundations of moral principles.
- metabolical — Alternative form of metabolic.
- metacentric — Naval Architecture. of or relating to a metacenter.
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
- metaethical — (ethics) Of or pertaining to metaethics.
- metafiction — fiction that discusses, describes, or analyzes a work of fiction or the conventions of fiction.
- metagenetic — reproduction characterized by the alternation of a sexual generation and a generation that reproduces asexually; alternation of generations.