10-letter words containing s, e, c, r
- micropyles — Plural form of micropyle.
- microscale — A very small or microscopic scale.
- microscope — an optical instrument having a magnifying lens or a combination of lenses for inspecting objects too small to be seen or too small to be seen distinctly and in detail by the unaided eye.
- microseism — a feeble, recurrent vibration of the ground recorded by seismographs and believed to be due to an earthquake or a storm at sea.
- microsized — Greatly reduced in size.
- microsleep — a moment of sleep followed by disorientation, experienced especially by persons suffering from narcolepsy or sleep deprivation.
- microsomes — Plural form of microsome.
- microspore — the smaller of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and some fern allies, developing into a male gametophyte. Compare megaspore,
- microstate — ministate.
- microtomes — Plural form of microtome.
- microtones — any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- microtubes — Plural form of microtube.
- microwaves — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- mid-course — the middle of a course.
- minicourse — a short, intensive course of study, usually a few weeks long.
- miscarried — Simple past tense and past participle of miscarry.
- miscarries — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miscarry.
- mischanter — mishanter.
- mischarged — Simple past tense and past participle of mischarge.
- mischarges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mischarge.
- miscolored — to give a wrong color to.
- misconster — Obsolete form of misconstrue (16th-17th c.).
- miscorrect — to correct wrongly
- miscreance — a misbelief or false religious faith.
- miscreancy — the state or condition of a miscreant; villainy.
- miscreants — Plural form of miscreant.
- miscreated — miscreated.
- miscreator — a person or entity that creates wrongly
- misdeclare — to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms: to declare one's position in a controversy.
- misericord — a room in a monastery set apart for those monks permitted relaxation of the monastic rule.
- mispredict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
- monarchies — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- monocerous — having one horn on the head
- monstrance — a receptacle in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration.
- morphemics — the study of the classification, description, and functions of morphemes; morphology.
- morse code — either of two systems of clicks and pauses, short and long sounds, or flashes of light, used to represent the letters of the alphabet, numerals, etc.: now used primarily in radiotelegraphy by ham operators.
- motorcades — Plural form of motorcade.
- mr scanner — a diagnostic device employing nuclear magnetic resonance to display computer-generated sectional images of the body, consisting of a large, body-encircling magnet that generates a strong, uniform magnetic field which interacts with radio waves to excite the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, or other specific atoms, and a detection system that picks up the signals from the body and transforms them into a visual image.
- ms project — Microsoft Project
- muciferous — secreting or containing mucus.
- muckrakers — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- muscardine — any of several fungi which cause disease in silkworms
- muscle car — a flashy sports car with a large, powerful engine; a hot rod.
- musicianer — (slang) musician.
- myrioscope — a form of kaleidoscope
- myrtaceous — belonging to the Myrtaceae, the myrtle family of plants. Compare myrtle family.
- narcolepsy — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- narcotised — Simple past tense and past participle of narcotise.
- narcotizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of narcotize.