11-letter words containing arc
- liposarcoma — (medicine) Any malignant tumour that originates in adipose tissue.
- marc antony — Antony, Mark.
- marcantonio — Raimondi, Marcantonio.
- 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
- march break — a school holiday, usually for a week, during March
- march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
- march-order — to prepare (personnel, arms, and equipment) for a march.
- marcheshvan — Heshvan.
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- marconi rig — a rig of triangular sails for a yacht.
- marconigram — a radiogram.
- matriarchal — the female head of a family or tribal line.
- matriarchic — Matriarchal.
- mercury arc — a bluish-green electric arc that has passed through a mercury-vapor cathode.
- middlemarch — a novel (1871–72) by George Eliot.
- monarchical — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
- monarchists — Plural form of monarchist.
- myosarcomas — Plural form of myosarcoma.
- narcissists — Plural form of narcissist.
- narcissuses — Plural form of narcissus.
- narco-state — a country in which the illegal trade in narcotic drugs forms a substantial part of the economy
- narcodollar — Usually, narcodollars. money obtained through illegal drug trafficking.
- narcoleptic — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- narcotizing — Present participle of narcotize.
- neural arch — a bony or cartilaginous arch resting on the chief part of each vertebra and forming a tunnel through which the nerve cord passes
- nitrostarch — an orange powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 8 O 2 6 , soluble in ethanol, used in explosives.
- norman arch — a semicircular arch, esp one in the Romanesque style of architecture developed by the Normans in England
- oligarchies — Plural form of oligarchy.
- overarching — forming an arch above: great trees with overarching branches.
- palaearctic — of or denoting a zoogeographical region consisting of Europe, Africa north of the Sahara, and most of Asia north of the Himalayas
- paleoarctic — palearctic.
- parcel bomb — explosive device in a package
- parcel post — (in the U.S. Postal Service) nonpreferential mail consisting of packages and parcels, weighing one pound or more sent at fourth-class rates. Compare fourth class.
- parcel-gilt — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
- parchedness — the state or characteristic of being parched
- patriarchal — of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.: my father's conservative, patriarchal ways.
- pelvic arch — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the hind limbs or analogous parts.
- petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
- petrarchist — a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- quick march — a march in quick time.
- quick-march — a march in quick time.
- researchers — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
- researchful — (of a book, academic paper etc) full of research, containing or built upon a great deal of research
- roundarched — having semicircular arches
- route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- sarcastical — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.