10-letter words containing m, i, s, t, a, e
- martensite — a metastable microconstituent of any of various forms of carbon steel, produced by undercooling sufficiently below the normal transformation temperature, especially a hard, brittle product of the decomposition of austenite, produced in this way.
- 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.
- mastigures — Plural form of mastigure.
- matricides — Plural form of matricide.
- 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.
- 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
- metastasio — (Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi) 1698–1782, Italian poet and dramatist.
- metastasis — Pathology. the transference of disease-producing organisms or of malignant or cancerous cells to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces. the condition produced by this.
- metastatic — Pathology. the transference of disease-producing organisms or of malignant or cancerous cells to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces. the condition produced by this.
- metathesis — the transposition of letters, syllables, or sounds in a word, as in the pronunciation [kuhmf-ter-buh l] /ˈkʌmf tər bəl/ (Show IPA) for comfortable or [aks] /æks/ (Show IPA) for ask.
- metricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metricate.
- microstate — ministate.
- militaries — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- militarise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of militarize.
- millstream — the stream in a millrace.
- mineralist — a mineralogist