11-letter words containing m, o, s, a, i, c
- 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.
- magnificoes — Plural form of magnifico.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- maliciously — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
- 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.
- mastication — The process of chewing.
- masticatory — of, relating to, or used in or for mastication.
- matronymics — Plural form of matronymic.
- medications — Plural form of medication.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mesoamerica — Anthropology, Archaeology. the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
- mesocardium — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- mesognathic — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- mesopelagic — of, relating to, or living in the ocean at a depth of between 600 feet (180 meters) and 3000 feet (900 meters).
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
- metasomatic — Of or pertaining to metasomatism.
- micro saint — (simulation) A general purpose simulation tool from US company Micro Analysis and Design.
- microarrays — Plural form of microarray.
- microfarads — Plural form of microfarad.
- micrographs — Plural form of micrograph.
- micronesian — of or relating to Micronesia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- microphages — Plural form of microphage.
- microquasar — (astronomy, stars) A high-energy binary star system that includes black hole or neutron star and which resembles a quasar.
- microsmatic — (of humans and certain animals) having a poor sense of smell
- midas touch — the ability to turn any business venture one is associated with into an extremely profitable one.
- mimosaceous — belonging to the Mimosaceae, now regarded as a subfamily (Mimosoideae) of the legume family.
- minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
- misallocate — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- miscitation — an erroneous citation
- miscreation — miscreated.
- mislocation — to misplace.
- misocapnist — (rare) One who hates tobacco smoke.
- mobocracies — Plural form of mobocracy.
- mochaccinos — Plural form of mochaccino.
- monarchists — Plural form of monarchist.
- monasticism — the monastic system, condition, or mode of life.
- monoblastic — having a single layer, as an embryo in the blastula stage or developing from a single layer.
- monochasial — Relating to the monochasium.
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- monocracies — Plural form of monocracy.
- monogastric — (biology) Having a simple single-chambered stomach.
- mosaic gold — Chemistry. stannic sulfide.
- mostaccioli — penne
- moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache