11-letter words containing s, c, r, e
- machineries — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- macrophages — Plural form of macrophage.
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- macrospores — Plural form of macrospore.
- macrosystem — A programming system in which small constructs (macros) represent groups of machine instructions.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- major scale — a scale consisting of a series of whole steps except for half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth degrees.
- make tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- martensitic — Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite.
- mascot rage — aggressive behaviour by mascots at sporting events
- master card — a card that cannot be beaten
- master copy — an original copy, stencil, tape, etc, from which duplicates are made
- master race — a people or nation, as the Germans during the Nazi period, whose members consider themselves genetically superior to all others and therefore justified in conquering and ruling them.
- masterclass — a small class for advanced students, especially a class in performance skills conducted by a distinguished musician.
- masterpiece — a person's greatest piece of work, as in an art.
- mastic tree — a small Mediterranean anacardiaceous evergreen tree, Pistacia lentiscus, that yields the resin mastic
- matchmakers — Plural form of matchmaker.
- mechitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
- mecopterans — Plural form of mecopteran.
- mecopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
- meerschaums — Plural form of meerschaum.
- megacoaster — (informal) A rollercoaster with a height of between 200 and 299 feet.
- megaparsecs — Plural form of megaparsec.
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- mercenaries — Plural form of mercenary.
- mercenarism — the state of being a mercenary
- merchandise — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- mercilessly — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mesoamerica — Anthropology, Archaeology. the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.
- mesocardium — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- mesomorphic — pertaining to or having a muscular or sturdy body build characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic mesoderm (contrasted with ectomorphic, endomorphic).
- mesonephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.
- mesospheric — Of or pertaining to the mesosphere.
- mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
- metacarpals — Plural form of metacarpal.
- metacenters — Plural form of metacenter.
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
- metempirics — the philosophy dealing with the existence of things outside, or beyond, experience.
- meteoritics — the science that deals with meteors.