11-letter words containing m, i, s, c, a
- lasiocampid — (zoology) Any member of the Lasiocampidae.
- liposarcoma — (medicine) Any malignant tumour that originates in adipose tissue.
- logical sum — union (def 10a).
- logomachies — Plural form of logomachy.
- logomachist — One who starts fights about the meaning of words.
- lucid emacs — Xemacs
- lumbricalis — lumbrical.
- macadamizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of macadamize.
- macdesigner — A design CASE tool for the Mac from Excel Software, Inc.
- 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.
- macrobiosis — long life.
- macrocosmic — Of or pertaining to the macrocosm (universe).
- macrofossil — a fossil large enough to be studied and identified without the use of a microscope.
- macroscopic — visible to the naked eye. Compare microscopic (def 1).
- macrosmatic — Having a good sense of smell.
- magic smoke — (electronics, humour) A substance trapped inside integrated circuit packages that enables them to function (also called "blue smoke"; this is similar to the archaic "phlogiston" hypothesis about combustion). Its existence is demonstrated by what happens when a chip burns up - the magic smoke gets let out, so it doesn't work any more. See Electing a Pope, smoke test. "Once, while hacking on a dedicated Zilog Z80 system, I was testing code by blowing EPROMs and plugging them in the system then seeing what happened. One time, I plugged one in backward. I only discovered that *after* I realised that Intel didn't put power-on lights under the quartz windows on the tops of their EPROMs - the die was glowing white-hot. Amazingly, the EPROM worked fine after I erased it, filled it full of zeros, then erased it again. For all I know, it's still in service. Of course, this is because the magic smoke didn't get let out." Compare the original phrasing of Murphy's Law.
- magic spell — incantation or curse
- magistratic — relating to a magistrate
- magnificoes — Plural form of magnifico.
- main clause — a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb, as I was there in the sentence I was there when he arrived.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- maliciously — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- 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
- manicurists — Plural form of manicurist.
- 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.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
- marcellus i — Saint, died a.d. 309, pope 308–309.
- marcescible — prone to fade or decay
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- martensitic — Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite.
- masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
- masculinely — In a masculine manner.
- masculinism — An ideology of masculinity; especially, an ideology opposed to, or opposed by, feminism.
- masculinist — Characterized by or denoting attitudes or values held to be typical of men.
- masculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- masochistic — Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
- mass action — Mass action is the effect when continuously adding reactants (= substances that are used in a reaction) to a reaction causes it to generate products continuously.
- 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
- masticating — Present participle of masticate.
- mastication — The process of chewing.
- masticatory — of, relating to, or used in or for mastication.
- matchsticks — Plural form of matchstick.