11-Letter Words Starting with M

Maceration

Crafty and involved plot

Crafty scheme

Plot to achieve speed of sound at start of race

Machinator

Some waterproof raincoats

Like an organic wholefood diet

Pertaining to the universe

MACROCYCLE

A fossil large enough to be examined without a microscope.

""The larger, usually female of two conjugating gametes in a heterogamous organism. Also called megagamete .""

""Pl. macronuclei (-kl - ) The larger of two nuclei present in ciliate protozoans, which controls nonreproductive functions of the cell, such as metabolism.""

Macrophage

MACROPHAGE A large phagocyte.

Macrophyte

MACROPHYTE

Macroscale

Visible to the naked eye

Clearly visible

Maculation

""Any of various stony corals of the order Madreporaria, which includes the reef builders of tropical seas.""

A fossil coral.

Generous, forgiving

Mr. Fancy Pants isn't noble of spirit, he's ..

Mr. Fancy Pants isn't noble of spirit, he's...

Magnifico

Maidenhood

Maisonette

Maladroit

""Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.""

Grammatical solecism

PARTIAL POST

MALAPROP a humorous misuse of a word

Disease and Illness ()

Dissatisfied people

Dissatisfied sorts

Guy talk or curse (wordplay)

Curse man's way of speaking

A man's enunciation

MALEDICT to {curse=v}

Bad behaviour in stag party, in part

Wrongdoing from the anti-feminist league (wordplay)

Y chromosomes (wordplay)

Sex genes producing criminals

Y chromosomes

Malice

Failure (of equipment)

Fail to work

Break down

Malicious

A wrong position.

Mammalogy

One versed in mammalogy.

MAMMOGRAPH

Mandatory

Mandatory

MANDOLINE A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.

Mandragora

Mangosteen

Manifesto

Statements from states

Movement's declarations

Manifold

One who manipulates

Changing position to gain advantage

Manometry

MANORIAL pertaining to a {manor=n}

Place where goods are made

Source of Old Trafford's talent production line (wordplay)

Making free with endless music playing in a large building

Freedom given to win more trophies is one club's aim

Football team given assignment as release from slavery

""An assembly plant in Mexico, especially one along the border between the United States and Mexico, to which foreign materials and parts are shipped and from which the finished product is returned to the original market.""

Maraschino

They go the distance

MARATHON a long-distance race

Wife of a marquis

Lady Muck initially rich as one's poor

Titled lady

MARGINATE Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.

Marination

Friends of the Bairds

Howdy Doody and others

Kukla's relatives.

Marmoreal

Parts of skeleton with edible cores

Spongy confection - wild flower

Spongy confection, often toasted

Confection commonly toasted

A history or account of martyrs; a register of martyrs.

In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely.

Mascarpone

Enjoying one's own pain

Masterwork

Working with teeth initially meshed, one side of cog breaking a channel

Masticator

Chewing; adapted to perform the office o<?/ chewing food.

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone.

""MASTURBATE To achieve sexual gratification by stimulating one's own sexual organs, without the aid of a partner; -- typically to the point of orgasm.""

Matchboard

Relating to the wedded state

Nuptial

Matrimony

Matronymic

Maturation

Mavourneen

Mayonnaise

Mayoralty

New Jersey home to two New York teams

Spooky setting of MetLife Stadium

Giants' home

Frolics in the grass (wordplay)

Yellow-breasted songbirds

Oriole cousins

Plant found in damp fields

Wild plant with creamy fragrant flowers

Fragrant wild plant

""MEDIATION The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention.""

Medication

Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.

Celebrated book by Marcus Aurelius.

Sessions of deep thought meant idiots would be transformed

An abnormally large nucleated red blood cell found especially in people having pernicious anemia or certain vitamin deficiencies.

Passion for grandeur

Folie de grandeur

Hitler's delusion.

""A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.""

Very large urban area

Group of large towns close together

Greater Mexico City, for example

""MEGAPHONE A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.""

English word

Abbr. MT A unit of explosive force equal to that of one million metric tons of TNT.

MEIOTIC pertaining to {meiosis=n}

Deep long-lasting sadness

Feeling of deep sadness

Long-lasting sadness

Feeling great sadness

Depressed

Glum

A precursor cell of a melanocyte or melanophore.

Melanocyte

""A pigment cell that contains melanin, especially as found in the skin of amphibians and reptiles.""

Melanosome

Improving

""The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.""

MELIORATE To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

Meliorator

MELIORIST

Sweet, pleasing (voice)

Pleasing to the ear

Smooth and musical

Mellophone

MELODICA a harmonica with a small keyboard at one end

Melodious

Much eBay merchandise

Objects connected with famous people

Objects associated with the famous

Memorandum

Same as memorialize.

Maker of a commemorative item

Pay homage to

Pay tribute to

""MEMORIZE to commit to memory, also MEMORISE""

Meningioma

Profuse menstruation.

""The act, process, or art, of measuring.""

Torero's type of smoke (wordplay)

Minty (of cigarettes)

Not taboo

Mentorship

MEPROBAMATE

MERCURATE

Meridional

Desert society (wordplay)

Government by the best

Belief that rulers should be chosen based on skills rather than wealth

Meritocrat

Deserving reward/praise

Deserving reward

Deserving praise

""Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; opposed to holoblastic. as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; opposed to holoblastic.""

Adjective (-ic)

Meromyosin

English word

MESOMORPH

""Of or pertaining to the mesonephros; as, the mesonephric, or Wolffian, duct. as, the mesonephric, or Wolffian, duct.""

""The second of the three excretory organs that develop in a vertebrate embryo, becoming the functioning kidney in fish and amphibians but replaced by the metanephros in higher vertebrates. Also called Wolffian body .""

The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body.

""Of, relating to, or living at ocean depths between about 180 and 900 meters (600 and 3,000 feet): mesopelagic organisms.""

MESOPHYLL

Mesosphere

MESOSPHERE

MESOTHELIA

""Epithelial mesoderm; a layer of cuboidal epithelium cells, formed from a portion of the mesoderm during the differetiation of the germ layers. It constitutes the boundary of the c&oe;lum.""

Adjective (-ic)

Metabolism

Products of the body's fuel-burning system

Built up and destroyed protoplasm

Metabolize

""Fiction that deals, often playfully and self-referentially, with the writing of fiction or its conventions.""

Metalloid.

A blacksmith, for one

Robot (wordplay)

Eg, a blacksmith

Found a cartoon character in charge of some rocks

Type of rock that has undergone transformation

Exhibiting structural change, as some rocks

""The third and final excretory organ that develops in a vertebrate embryo. In birds, reptiles, and mammals it replaces the mesonephros as the functional excretory organ and develops into the adult kidney.""

The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.

English word

METASOMA the back portion of an arachnid with no appendages

Meteoritic

Of or pertaining to a meteoroid or to meteoroids.

Study of weather and climate

Study of weather

Roker's field

METHANE a flammable gas

Methionine

METHODISE

METHODIST One who observes method.

""METHODIZE To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. as, to methodize one's work or thoughts.""

System of rules

System of procedures for use in a specific field

""METHYLATE An alcoholate of methyl alcohol in which the hydroxyl hydrogen is replaced by a metal, after the analogy of a hydrate; as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa. as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa.""

Methylator

Methyldopa

Used by way of metonymy; using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated.

Conversion to a particular measurement system

Modernisation of measures from imperial units

Metrology

Measurement

A unit of electric current equal to one millionth of an ampere.

Microbrew

Sudden, violent storms

Microbus

Microcline

Of or pertaining to micrococci; caused by micrococci.

""A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumbbells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus. Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumbbells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus.""

Microcopy

Serving as a small example

Ape eats small reptile and big, reflecting bigger world

""MICROCOSM A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm. macrocosm.""

Microcurie

Microfarad

English word

MICROFAUNA

Microfauna

English word

Microfiche

Microfilm

Microfilm

English word

MICROFLORA

Microflora

""A microscopic fossil, as of a pollen grain or unicellular organism.""

Plural noun or verb form

""The smaller of a pair of conjugating gametes, usually the male, in an organism that reproduces by heterogamy.""