11-letter words containing m, r, s
- maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
- mammiferous — having mammae; mammalian.
- man-at-arms — a soldier.
- managership — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- mandarinism — A government of mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins.
- mandataries — Plural form of mandatary.
- mandatories — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mangalsutra — a necklace worn by a Hindu woman to signify that she is married
- manicurists — Plural form of manicurist.
- manna sugar — mannitol.
- 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.
- manniferous — resulting in or producing manna
- manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
- manorialism — the manorial organization, or its principles and practices in the Middle Ages.
- manteltrees — Plural form of manteltree.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- maple sugar — a yellowish-brown sugar produced by boiling down maple syrup.
- maple syrup — a syrup produced by partially boiling down the sap of the sugar maple or of any of several other maple trees.
- maraboutism — Support for marabouts (Muslim holy men or mystics).
- marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
- marcellus i — Saint, died a.d. 309, pope 308–309.
- marcescence — withering but not falling off, as a part of a plant.
- marcescible — prone to fade or decay
- marcheshvan — Heshvan.
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- mare island — an island in the N part of San Francisco Bay, California.
- mare's-nest — something imagined to be an extraordinary discovery but proving to be a delusion or a hoax: The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare's-nest.
- mare's-tail — a long narrow cirrus cloud whose flowing appearance somewhat resembles a horse's tail.
- marginalise — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- marginalism — (economics) The use of marginal analysis to solve large classes of microeconomic problems.
- marginalist — somene who adheres to the theory of marginalism
- margravates — Plural form of margravate.
- margravines — Plural form of margravine.
- marguerites — Plural form of marguerite.
- maria luisa — Marie Louise.
- 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.
- market test — If a company carries out a market test, it asks a group of people to try a new product or service and give their opinions on it.
- marksperson — A marksman or markswoman.
- marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marquessate — The territory of a marquess, margrave or person of comparable rank.
- marquisates — Plural form of marquisate.
- marquisette — a lightweight open fabric of leno weave in cotton, rayon, silk, or nylon.
- marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
- mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
- mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
- marsh buggy — swamp buggy.
- marsh cress — any cress belonging to the genus Rorippa, of the mustard family, especially R. islandica, that grows in marshy areas in North America and Eurasia.
- marsh elder — any of various composite plants of the genus Iva, as I. frutescens, that grow in salt marshes.