11-letter words containing o, r, e, c, t
- logocentric — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- lower court — any court other than the highest court in a jurisdiction
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- luteotropic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- macrogamete — (in heterogamous reproduction) the larger and usually female of a pair of conjugating gametes.
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- macrosystem — A programming system in which small constructs (macros) represent groups of machine instructions.
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- malefactory — villainous
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- mascot rage — aggressive behaviour by mascots at sporting events
- master copy — an original copy, stencil, tape, etc, from which duplicates are made
- mechatronic — relating to mechatronics
- mecopterans — Plural form of mecopteran.
- mecopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
- megacoaster — (informal) A rollercoaster with a height of between 200 and 299 feet.
- megaproject — A very large public investment project, especially one costing more than one billion US dollars.
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- meritocracy — an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- merogenetic — of or relating to schizogony
- mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
- metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
- metamorphic — pertaining to or characterized by change of form, or metamorphosis.
- metatrophic — requiring dead organic matter for food.
- meteoritics — the science that deals with meteors.
- metrication — the act, process, or result of establishing the metric system as the standard system of measurement.
- microcredit — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- microfilter — a device plugged into a phone socket to separate the phone line from the broadband line
- microgamete — (in heterogamous reproduction) the smaller and, usually, the male of two conjugating gametes.
- microinject — to inject into a single cell or cell part.
- micrometers — Plural form of micrometer.
- micromethod — the use of magnification, usually by using a microscope, for study or for performing mechanical operations on a very small scale.
- micrometric — Of or pertaining to micrometry.
- microphytes — Plural form of microphyte.
- microstress — a stress in the microstructure of a metal, as one caused by the distortion of space lattices.
- microsystem — A microscopic system, especially a system using microscopic electromechanical components.
- microtremor — microearthquake.
- microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.
- microwriter — a small device with six keys for creating text that can be printed or displayed on a visual display unit
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- miscreation — miscreated.
- mitre block — a block of wood with slots for cutting mitre joints with a saw
- modernistic — modern.
- monergistic — the doctrine that the Holy Ghost acts independently of the human will in the work of regeneration. Compare synergism (def 3).
- monocentric — Having a single centre.