11-letter words containing s, e, i, m, c
- macintoshes — Plural form of macintosh.
- magic smoke — (electronics, humour) A substance trapped inside integrated circuit packages that enables them to function (also called "blue smoke"; this is similar to the archaic "phlogiston" hypothesis about combustion). Its existence is demonstrated by what happens when a chip burns up - the magic smoke gets let out, so it doesn't work any more. See Electing a Pope, smoke test. "Once, while hacking on a dedicated Zilog Z80 system, I was testing code by blowing EPROMs and plugging them in the system then seeing what happened. One time, I plugged one in backward. I only discovered that *after* I realised that Intel didn't put power-on lights under the quartz windows on the tops of their EPROMs - the die was glowing white-hot. Amazingly, the EPROM worked fine after I erased it, filled it full of zeros, then erased it again. For all I know, it's still in service. Of course, this is because the magic smoke didn't get let out." Compare the original phrasing of Murphy's Law.
- magic spell — incantation or curse
- magnificoes — Plural form of magnifico.
- main clause — a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb, as I was there in the sentence I was there when he arrived.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- manchineels — Plural form of manchineel.
- manichaeism — the system of religious doctrines, including elements of Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Buddhism, etc, taught by the Persian prophet Mani about the 3rd century ad. It was based on a supposed primordial conflict between light and darkness, or goodness and evil
- 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.
- marcescible — prone to fade or decay
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- martensitic — Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite.
- masculinely — In a masculine manner.
- masculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- 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
- mathematics — (used with a singular verb) the systematic treatment of magnitude, relationships between figures and forms, and relations between quantities expressed symbolically.
- mechanicals — (US) mechanical fixtures and fittings.
- mechanistic — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
- mechitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
- medicaments — Plural form of medicament.
- medications — Plural form of medication.
- mediumistic — pertaining to a spiritualistic medium.
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- menaissance — a supposed re-emergence and acceptance of masculine virtues and behaviour
- mendacities — Plural form of mendacity.
- menoschesis — suppression of menstruation.
- mentalistic — the doctrine that objects of knowledge have no existence except in the mind of the perceiver.
- 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.
- mesalliance — a marriage with someone who is considered socially inferior; misalliance.
- mesoamerica — Anthropology, Archaeology. the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
- mesocardium — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- mesognathic — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- 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.
- mesopelagic — of, relating to, or living in the ocean at a depth of between 600 feet (180 meters) and 3000 feet (900 meters).
- mesophyllic — (botany) Of or pertaining to the mesophyll of a leaf.
- mesospheric — Of or pertaining to the mesosphere.
- mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
- meta-ethics — the philosophy of ethics dealing with the meaning of ethical terms, the nature of moral discourse, and the foundations of moral principles.
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
- metaphysics — metaphysics.