11-letter words containing m, i, s, o
- mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- maintopmast — (nautical) The topmast of the mainmast.
- maintopsail — a topsail set on the mainmast.
- maisonettes — Plural form of maisonette.
- malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
- malapropist — a person who regularly makes malapropisms
- maliciously — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malposition — faulty or wrong position, especially of a part or organ of the body or of a fetus in the uterus.
- maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
- mammalogist — the science dealing with mammals.
- mammiferous — having mammae; mammalian.
- mandatories — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mandolinist — One who plays the mandolin.
- manganosite — (mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing manganese and oxygen.
- manifestoes — Plural form of manifesto.
- manniferous — resulting in or producing manna
- manorialism — the manorial organization, or its principles and practices in the Middle Ages.
- manumission — the act of manumitting.
- maraboutism — Support for marabouts (Muslim holy men or mystics).
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
- mariologist — a student of Mariology.
- marionettes — Plural form of marionette.
- mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
- masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
- mashie iron — a club with an iron head, the face having more slope than a mid-mashie but less slope than a mashie.
- 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.
- 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.
- mastication — The process of chewing.
- masticatory — of, relating to, or used in or for mastication.
- mastigoneme — One of the lateral \"hairs\" found covering the flagella of heterokont and cryptophyte algae, believed to assist in locomotion.
- mastoiditis — inflammation of the mastoid process.
- mastroianni — Marcello, 1924–96, Italian actor.
- matronising — to cause to become matronly; cause to act as, or fulfill the role of, matron.
- matronymics — Plural form of matronymic.
- mayonnaisey — Resembling mayonnaise; mayonnaiselike.
- mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
- medications — Plural form of medication.
- meditations — Plural form of meditation.
- medium shot — a camera shot in which the subject is in the middle distance, permitting some of the background to be seen. Compare closeup (def 2), long shot (def 3).
- megadontism — macrodontia.
- megalopolis — a very large city.
- megaphonist — Someone who uses a megaphone.
- megapolises — Plural form of megapolis.
- melioidosis — a contagious pulmonary disease of rodents that is caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas pseudomallei and is frequently transmitted to humans in moist climates of southeastern Asia.
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- meliphagous — feeding on honey
- melliferous — yielding or producing honey.