11-letter words containing o, r, s, m
- microlights — Plural form of microlight.
- micrometers — Plural form of micrometer.
- micronesian — of or relating to Micronesia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- microphages — Plural form of microphage.
- microphones — Plural form of microphone.
- microphylls — Plural form of microphyll.
- microphytes — Plural form of microphyte.
- microporous — composed of or having extremely small pores.
- microquasar — (astronomy, stars) A high-energy binary star system that includes black hole or neutron star and which resembles a quasar.
- microscopes — Plural form of microscope.
- microscopic — so small as to be invisible or indistinct without the use of the microscope: microscopic organisms. Compare macroscopic.
- microsecond — a unit of time equal to one millionth of a second. Symbol: μsec.
- microseisms — Plural form of microseism.
- microsensor — a miniature electronic device used to detect changes in the environment.
- microskirts — Plural form of microskirt.
- microsmatic — (of humans and certain animals) having a poor sense of smell
- microsphere — a very small medical particle, containing a diagnostic or therapeutic agent, that is injected into the blood
- microspores — Plural form of microspore.
- microstress — a stress in the microstructure of a metal, as one caused by the distortion of space lattices.
- microswitch — a highly sensitive switch used in automatic-control devices.
- microsystem — A microscopic system, especially a system using microscopic electromechanical components.
- microvessel — (medicine) A very small blood vessel, such as a capillary or arteriole.
- microvillus — any of the small, fingerlike projections of the surface of an epithelial cell.
- middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
- mills cross — a type of radio telescope consisting of two arrays of antennas perpendicular to each other.
- mimeographs — Plural form of mimeograph.
- mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
- mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
- mini-course — a brief intensive course of study
- minicourses — Plural form of minicourse.
- ministrokes — Plural form of ministroke.
- 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.
- minoritised — Simple past tense and past participle of minoritise.
- mirror lens — a lens of long focal length in which some of the lens elements are replaced by mirrors in order to shorten its overall length and reduce its weight
- mirror site — (networking) An archive site or website which keeps a copy of some or all files at another site so as to make them more quickly available and to reduce the load on the source site. It is generally best to use the mirror that is physically closest to you as this will usually give the fastest download. Such mirroring is usually done for specific whole directories or files on a specific remote server as opposed to a cache or proxy server which keeps copies of everything that is requested via it. For example, src.doc.ic.ac.uk is the main UK mirror for the GNU archive at gnu.org.
- mirrorscope — (dated) A slide projector.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- misanthropy — hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.
- misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- miscreation — miscreated.
- misdemeanor — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- misericorde — (Middle English) an act of clemency; pity, mercy.
- misericords — Plural form of misericord.
- misfortuned — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate.
- misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- misgoverned — Simple past tense and past participle of misgovern.
- misinformed — to give false or misleading information to.
- misjoinders — Plural form of misjoinder.
- misoprostol — A drug used for various purposes including the prevention of drug-induced gastric ulcers and the inducement of abortions, having the chemical formula C22H38O5.