11-letter words containing p, a, e
- magic spell — incantation or curse
- magpie lark — a black-and-white pied bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, inhabiting areas near water in Australia and southern New Guinea.
- magpie moth — a geometrid moth, Abraxas grossulariata, showing variable patterning in black on white or yellow, whose looper larvae attack currant and gooseberry bushes. The paler clouded magpie is A. sylvata
- maiden pink — a turf-forming plant, Dianthus deltoides , found from western Europe to eastern Asia, having red or pink flowers.
- mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
- major piece — a queen or rook.
- make a pass — sports
- make up for — compensate
- make-up bag — a bag in which cosmetics are kept
- make-up man — a man who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
- maladaptive — of, relating to, or characterized by maladaptation or incomplete, inadequate, or faulty adaptation: The maladaptive behavior of isolated children was difficult to change.
- malebo pool — a lakelike body of water on the boundary between the W Democratic Republic of the Congo and the SE People's Republic of the Congo, formed by the widening of the Congo (Zaire) River about 330 miles (530 km) from its mouth. About 20 miles (32 km) long; about 15 miles (24 km) wide.
- malpractice — Law. failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows.
- managership — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- manila hemp — a fibrous material made from the leafstalks of the abacá, Musa textilis, used for making ropes, fabrics, etc.
- manila rope — rope made from Manila hemp.
- manipulable — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
- manipulated — Simple past tense and past participle of manipulate.
- manipulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manipulate.
- mantelpiece — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- mantlepiece — mantel.
- manure heap — a pile of animal excreta, esp on a farm, kept for use as fertiliser
- map-reading — the act or skill of interpreting the significance of a geographical map
- maple grove — a town in SE Minnesota.
- maple honey — maple syrup.
- 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.
- mapping pen — a pen with a fine point, used esp for drawing maps
- marketplace — an open area in a town where a market is held.
- marking pen — marker (def 10).
- marksperson — A marksman or markswoman.
- marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- massey hope — (language, functional programming) A refinement of Hope+C by Nigel Perry <[email protected]> of Massey University, NZ, with improved syntax.
- master copy — an original copy, stencil, tape, etc, from which duplicates are made
- master plan — A master plan is a clever plan that is intended to help someone succeed in a very difficult or important task.
- master tape — an original copy of an audio tape that can be used to produce other copies
- master-plan — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- masterpiece — a person's greatest piece of work, as in an art.
- match plate — a plate on which patterns are set to be molded.
- maxillipeds — Plural form of maxilliped.
- mean planet — a hypothetical planet that coincides with a real planet when the real planet is at perihelion and that moves in an orbit at a constant velocity equal to the mean velocity of the real planet.
- meatpacking — (US) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
- mecopterans — Plural form of mecopteran.
- media group — an association of companies involved with the means of mass communication
- megacephaly — macrocephalic.
- megalopolis — a very large city.
- megaparsecs — Plural form of megaparsec.
- megaphoning — Present participle of megaphone.
- megaphonist — Someone who uses a megaphone.
- megapolises — Plural form of megapolis.