10-letter words containing m, i, s, a, t
- massecuite — A suspension of sugar crystals in syrup produced in a sugar factory.
- masseteric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the masseter.
- masspriest — a Roman Catholic priest
- mastermind — to plan and direct (a usually complex project or activity), especially skillfully: Two colonels had masterminded the revolt.
- mastership — the office, function, or authority of a master.
- masticated — Simple past tense and past participle of masticate.
- masticator — Someone who masticates.
- mastigures — Plural form of mastigure.
- mastodonic — a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut (Mastodon), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.
- mastodynia — (medicine) mastalgia; pain in the breast.
- matchgirls — Plural form of matchgirl.
- matchstick — a short, slender piece of flammable wood used in making matches.
- matosinhos — a port in N Portugal, on the estuary of the Leça River north of Oporto: fishing industry. Pop: 167 026 (2001)
- matriarchs — A woman who is the head of a family or tribe.
- matricides — Plural form of matricide.
- matriotism — Hometown, school, or parish pride or loyalty, as opposed to nationalism or patriotism.
- mattathias — died 167? b.c, Jewish priest in Judea (father of Judas Maccabaeus).
- maturities — Plural form of maturity.
- maupertuis — Pierre Louis Moreau de [pyer lwee maw-roh duh] /pyɛr lwi mɔˈroʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1698–1759, French mathematician, astronomer, and biologist.
- maxi-skirt — a long skirt or skirt part, as of a coat or dress, ending below the middle of the calf but above the ankle.
- maximalist — a person who favors a radical and immediate approach to the achievement of a set of goals or the completion of a program.
- mechanists — Plural form of mechanist.
- medallists — Plural form of medallist.
- media star — a person who is well-known because of frequent appearances in the mass media
- mediastina — Plural form of mediastinum.
- mediations — Plural form of mediation.
- mediatised — to annex (a principality) to another state, while allowing certain rights to its former sovereign.
- medicaster — A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.
- megacities — Plural form of megacity.
- melanistic — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melismatic — an ornamental phrase of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in plainsong or blues singing.
- mendicants — Plural form of mendicant.
- menostaxis — an abnormally prolonged period of menstruation.
- mesocratic — (of an igneous rock) composed of light and dark minerals in nearly equal amounts.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- meta-vlisp — (language) An innovative Lisp dialect by E. St.James of IBP, France.
- metabiosis — a mode of living in which one organism is dependent on another for preparation of an environment in which it can live.
- metabolise — Alternative spelling of metabolize.
- metabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- metaethics — the philosophy of ethics dealing with the meaning of ethical terms, the nature of moral discourse, and the foundations of moral principles.
- metalepsis — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- metallings — road metals
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- metalsmith — a person skilled in making articles of metal.
- metamerism — Zoology. division into metameres, the developmental process of somite formation. existence in a metameric state.
- metaphasic — Relating to metaphase.
- metaphysic — metaphysics.
- metaphysis — (anatomy) The part of a long bone that grows during development.
- metaplasia — the transformation of one type of tissue into another.
- metaplasis — the second of three stages of ontogenetic development proposed by Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, in which the development of the individual is complete