11-letter words containing r, e, c, a, t
- 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.
- merchanting — the act of selling commodities
- merchantman — a trading ship.
- merchantmen — Plural form of merchantman.
- 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.
- meta-centre — the intersection between two vertical lines, one through the center of buoyancy of a hull in equilibrium, the other through the center of buoyancy when the hull is inclined slightly to one side or toward one end: the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the initial stability of the hull.
- metacarpals — Plural form of metacarpal.
- metacenters — Plural form of metacenter.
- metacentric — Naval Architecture. of or relating to a metacenter.
- metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
- metaculture — All the universal concepts that are present in all cultures.
- metallurgic — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- metamorphic — pertaining to or characterized by change of form, or metamorphosis.
- metanephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of higher vertebrates, becoming the permanent and functional kidney.
- metatrophic — requiring dead organic matter for food.
- methacrylic — denoting a type of acid
- metrication — the act, process, or result of establishing the metric system as the standard system of measurement.
- microgamete — (in heterogamous reproduction) the smaller and, usually, the male of two conjugating gametes.
- miscreation — miscreated.
- miscreative — creating evil
- monstrances — Plural form of monstrance.
- monte carlo — a town in Monaco principality, in SE France: gambling resort.
- morcellated — Simple past tense and past participle of morcellate.
- most-caller — (of fruit, fish, vegetables, etc.) fresh; recently picked or caught.
- mothercraft — skill and knowledge in looking after children
- movie actor — film star
- musculature — the muscular system of the body or of its parts.
- narco-state — a country in which the illegal trade in narcotic drugs forms a substantial part of the economy
- narcoleptic — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- natriuretic — excretion of sodium in the urine.
- natterjacks — Plural form of natterjack.
- neanthropic — of or relating to modern forms of humans as compared with extinct species of the genus Homo.
- necromantic — a method of divination through alleged communication with the dead; black art.
- needlecraft — needlework.
- neocortical — the largest and evolutionarily most recent portion of the cerebral cortex, composed of complex, layered tissue, the site of most of the higher brain functions.
- neotropical — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising that part of the New World extending from the tropic of Cancer southward.
- nephritical — Alternative form of nephritic.
- net curtain — Net curtains are curtains made of thin cloth that people hang across their windows to stop people outside seeing into their houses in the daytime.
- neuroactive — affecting or interacting directly with the nervous system
- neurocytoma — A nervous system tumor primarily derived from nervous tissue, in contrast to the gliomas.
- neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- newscasters — Plural form of newscaster.
- nomenclator — a person who assigns names, as in scientific classification; classifier.
- noncreative — having the quality or power of creating.
- nonmetrical — (music) Without the constraints of a metronome; not played or sung with a strict underlying rhythmic method.
- nonoperatic — not operatic
- nonreactive — tending to react.