11-letter words containing ll
- millenarian — of or relating to a thousand, especially the thousand years of the prophesied millennium.
- millenarism — Millenarianism.
- millennials — Plural form of millennial.
- millenniums — Plural form of millennium.
- milliampere — a unit of electric current equal to one thousandth of an ampere. Abbreviation: mA.
- millicuries — Plural form of millicurie.
- millidegree — one thousandth of a degree.
- millifarads — Plural form of millifarad.
- milligramme — Obsolete spelling of milligram.
- milliliters — Plural form of milliliter.
- millilitres — Plural form of millilitre.
- millimeters — Plural form of millimeter.
- millimetres — Plural form of millimetre.
- millimetric — a unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter and equivalent to 0.03937 inch. Abbreviation: mm.
- millimicron — a unit of length equal to one thousandth of a micron; one-billionth of a meter. Symbol: mμ.
- millineries — Plural form of millinery.
- millionaire — a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more in some unit of currency, as dollars.
- millionfold — comprising a million parts or members.
- milliradian — one thousandth of a radian.
- millisecond — one thousandth of a second. Abbreviation: msec.
- mills cross — a type of radio telescope consisting of two arrays of antennas perpendicular to each other.
- millstreams — Plural form of millstream.
- millwrights — Plural form of millwright.
- mimetically — In a mimetic manner.
- mirifically — in a mirific manner
- mirror ball — a large revolving ball covered with small pieces of mirror glass so that it reflects light in changing patterns: used in discos and ballrooms
- mis-selling — the act or an instance of mis-selling
- misalliance — an improper or incompatible association, especially in marriage; mésalliance.
- misallocate — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misbefallen — Simple past tense and past participle of misbefall.
- miscellanea — Miscellaneous items, especially literary compositions, that have been collected together.
- mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
- mislabelled — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
- misspelling — the act of spelling incorrectly: Note his misspelling of that word.
- mitotically — the usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.
- mitrailleur — (UK, military, obsolete) rapid-fire team-served musket or rifle.
- mixed grill — an assortment of several kinds of broiled or grilled meats, and usually vegetables, served together, as a lamb chop, a pork sausage, a piece of liver, grilled tomatoes, and mushrooms.
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- mollycoddle — a man or boy who is used to being coddled; a milksop.
- mollydooker — (UK, Australia, slang) A left-handed person.
- monadically — Biology. any simple, single-celled organism. any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
- monroeville — a city in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- montpellier — a department in S France. 2403 sq. mi. (6225 sq. km). Capital: Montpellier.
- moon pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the moon, believed to be caused by the reflection of moonlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
- morcellated — Simple past tense and past participle of morcellate.
- morgan hill — a town in W California.
- moronically — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- morrill act — an act of Congress (1862) granting each state 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of land for each member it had in Congress, 90 percent of the gross proceeds of which were to be used for the endowment and maintenance of colleges and universities teaching agricultural and mechanical arts and other subjects.
- mortadellas — Plural form of mortadella.
- most of all — above all else