11-letter words containing m, i, g, l
- magnetotail — the narrow and elongated region of the magnetosphere of the earth or of another planet that extends in the direction away from the sun.
- magpie lark — a black-and-white pied bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, inhabiting areas near water in Australia and southern New Guinea.
- mail bridge — (messaging) A mail gateway that forwards electronic mail messages between two or more networks if they meet certain administrative criteria.
- malariology — the study of malaria.
- maledicting — Present participle of maledict.
- malignantly — disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
- malignities — Plural form of malignity.
- malingerers — Plural form of malingerer.
- malingering — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
- maltreating — Present participle of maltreat.
- mammalogist — the science dealing with mammals.
- manhandling — to handle roughly.
- manstealing — the act of kidnapping.
- marbleizing — Present participle of marbleize.
- margin call — a demand from a brokerage house to a customer that more money or securities be deposited in his or her margin account when the amount in it falls below that stipulated as necessary to cover the stock purchased.
- margin line — an imaginary line used in making calculations regarding the flooding of hulls, running fore-and-aft 3 inches (8 cm) below the upper surface of the bulkhead deck at the side.
- marginalise — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- marginalism — (economics) The use of marginal analysis to solve large classes of microeconomic problems.
- marginalist — somene who adheres to the theory of marginalism
- marginality — pertaining to a margin.
- marginalize — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- marine glue — a tarlike composition for coating the seams of a planked deck after caulking.
- mariologist — a student of Mariology.
- marmalading — Present participle of marmalade.
- marshalling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- martingales — Plural form of martingale.
- mating ball — a writhing mass of snakes, usually composed of a single female and 10 or more males attempting to mate with her.
- mating call — a sound made by a bird or animal in order to attract a sexual partner
- maxi single — a music single which contains more than the usual number of tracks
- mcgillivray — Alexander, 1759?–93, Native American chief of the Creek nation.
- meaningless — without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant: a meaningless reply; a meaningless existence.
- medicolegal — pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine.
- megalomania — Psychiatry. a symptom of mental illness marked by delusions of greatness, wealth, etc.
- megalomanic — Afflicted by megalomania.
- megalopolis — a very large city.
- megamillion — (informal) A great number of millions.
- megapolises — Plural form of megapolis.
- megapolitan — of, relating to, or characteristic of a megalopolis.
- meliphagous — feeding on honey
- melting pot — a pot in which metals or other substances are melted or fused.
- meningocele — a protrusion of the meninges through an opening in the skull or spinal column, forming a bulge or sac filled with cerebrospinal fluid.
- mentalising — Present participle of mentalise.
- mesopelagic — of, relating to, or living in the ocean at a depth of between 600 feet (180 meters) and 3000 feet (900 meters).
- met-english — A Fortran-like language designed at Metropolitan Life in the early 1960s. It had support for variable-length bit fields. Most MetLife DP in the 1960s and 1970s was in Met-English. It was originally developed for Honeywell machines, but many programs still run under IBM MVS via a Honeywell emulator.
- metalliding — the creation of an alloy coating by an electrolytic process involving the diffusion of atoms from one metal into the surface of a second metal
- metallurgic — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- methylating — Present participle of methylate.
- metrologies — Plural form of metrology.
- metrologist — the science of weights and measures.
- microfiling — the process of reproducing the contents of a file on microfilm