11-letter words starting with m
- malpractice — Law. failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows.
- malt liquor — beer having a relatively high alcohol content, usually 5 to 8 percent.
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- malta fever — brucellosis.
- malted milk — a soluble powder made of dehydrated milk and malted cereals.
- maltese cat — a bluish-gray variety of the domestic cat.
- maltese dog — one of a breed of toy dogs having a long, straight, silky white coat.
- maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
- maltreating — Present participle of maltreat.
- mamillation — a nipple-like protrusion
- mamilliform — shaped like a nipple
- mammalogist — the science dealing with mammals.
- mammaplasty — (surgery) Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
- mammiferous — having mammae; mammalian.
- mammillaria — any of various cacti of the genus Mammillaria, including the pincushion cactus.
- mammography — x-ray photography of a breast, especially for detection of tumors.
- mammoplasty — reconstruction or alteration in size or contour of the female breast.
- mammy chair — a slinglike device for raising or lowering passengers to and from ships anchored away from the shore in a heavy swell.
- mammy wagon — a W African vehicle built on a lorry chassis, capable of carrying both passengers and goods
- man and boy — from childhood
- man manager — a person who manages personnel in the manner specified
- man-at-arms — a soldier.
- man-for-man — man-to-man (sense 2)
- managership — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- manchineels — Plural form of manchineel.
- mancipation — (obsolete) slavery.
- mancipatory — relating to mancipation
- mandarinate — the status or position of a mandarin.
- mandarinism — A government of mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins.
- mandataries — Plural form of mandatary.
- mandatories — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mandatorily — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- mandlestone — The amygdaloid.
- mandolinist — One who plays the mandolin.
- manducating — Present participle of manducate.
- manducation — The act of eating.
- manducatory — Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
- maneuvering — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- maneuvrable — Alternative form of maneuverable.
- mangalsutra — a necklace worn by a Hindu woman to signify that she is married
- manganesian — (chemistry) manganic.
- manganosite — (mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing manganese and oxygen.
- mangia-cake — a derogatory term for a White person of Anglo-Saxon origin, used among Italo-Canadians
- mangosteens — Plural form of mangosteen.
- manhandling — to handle roughly.
- maniaphobia — Fear of being insane.
- 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
- manicurists — Plural form of manicurist.
- manifestant — a person who initiates or participates in a public demonstration; demonstrator.