12-letter words containing a, c, t, e, s
- metabolomics — the study of all the metabolites present in cells, tissues, and organs
- metabonomics — (biochemistry, genetics) metabolomics.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- metagenomics — (genetics) The study of genomes recovered from environmental samples; especially the differentiation of genomes from multiple organisms or individuals, either in a symbiotic relationship, or at a crime scene.
- metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metapolitics — political theory: often used derogatorily
- metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
- metasilicate — a salt or mineral containing the anion SiO32-
- metric space — a space with a metric defined on it.
- minicassette — a small cassette enclosing a length of audiotape for use with a pocket-size tape recorder, especially one used for dictating.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misallocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misallocate.
- miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
- miscellanist — a person who writes, compiles, or edits miscellanies.
- misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- miscreations — Plural form of miscreation.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- mismatchment — an inappropriate match
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- morro castle — a historic fort at the entrance to the harbor of Havana, Cuba.
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- multicostate — having several costae or ribs
- multisulcate — having many grooves or furrows
- mustache cup — a cup having a straight piece inside, just below the rim, for holding back a man's mustache while he is drinking.
- mycetomatous — relating to or affected by a mycetoma
- mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
- nasotracheal — (anatomy) Of or relating to the nose and trachea.
- natchitoches — a city in NW Louisiana.
- necessitated — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- necessitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of necessitate.
- negativistic — a negative or pessimistic attitude.
- neorealistic — Of or pertaining to neorealism.
- nepotistical — Nepotistic.
- nesosilicate — any silicate, as olivine, in which the SiO 4 tetrahedra are not interlinked.
- nested class — (Java) In Java, a class defined within an enclosing class definition. A static nested class has no direct access to the members of its enclosing class whereas a non-static nested class, known as an "inner class", is associated with an instance of the enclosing class and an instance of the inner class has direct access to the members of its enclosing instance.
- net curtains — curtains made of a thin light mesh fabric of cotton, nylon, or other fibre
- neural crest — a group of ectodermal cells that develop into a variety of tissues, including spinal and autonomic ganglia, connective tissue around the brain and spinal cord, and parts of the facial bones.
- neurasthenic — pertaining to or suffering from neurasthenia.
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- neutralistic — Employing or relating to neutralism.
- nitroscanate — The ether analogue of amoscanate, used in veterinary medicine as an anthelmintic.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- nomenclators — Plural form of nomenclator.
- nonaesthetic — not aesthetic, not related to the appreciation of beauty