13-letter words containing a, d, m, i
- market-driven — controlled and guided by commercial considerations
- married print — composite print.
- masterminding — to plan and direct (a usually complex project or activity), especially skillfully: Two colonels had masterminded the revolt.
- mastoidectomy — the removal of part of a mastoid process, usually for draining an infection.
- match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- material mode — the normal use of language that refers to extra-linguistic subjects without explicit mention of the words themselves. Fido is a dog is in the material mode, while "Fido" is a dog's name is in the formal mode
- maxillodental — Relating to the jaw and teeth.
- maximal ideal — an ideal in a ring that is not included in any other ideal except the ring itself.
- mean distance — the arithmetic mean of the greatest and least distances of a planet from the sun, used in stating the size of an orbit; the semimajor axis.
- mean latitude — the latitude of the point that is midway between two parallels on the same side of the equator.
- mean-spirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
- media studies — educational subjects or courses relating to the mass media
- medical audit — a review of the professional standards of doctors, usually within a hospital, conducted by a medical committee
- medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- medicine ball — a large, solid, heavy, leather-covered ball, thrown from one person to another for exercise.
- mediterranean — Mediterranean Sea.
- medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
- medium quarto — a size of book, about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 4to.
- melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
- melodramatist — A writer of melodramas.
- melodramatize — to make melodramatic.
- mercer island — a city in W central Washington, on Mercer Island in Lake Washington, east of Seattle.
- merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
- merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
- mercurialized — Simple past tense and past participle of mercurialize.
- meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- metanephridia — Plural form of metanephridium.
- metatoluidine — a colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 9 N, the meta isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes and other organic compounds.
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach
- methodistical — Methodistic.
- methodization — The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.
- metronidazole — a synthetic antimicrobial substance, C 6 H 9 N 3 O 3 , used chiefly in the treatment of infections, such as Trichomonas vaginalis and certain anaerobic bacterial infections.
- mid glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 393 sq. mi. (1019 sq. km).
- mid-victorian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle portion (about 1850 to 1890) of the reign of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837–1901) in England: mid-Victorian writers.
- midday prayer — the fourth of the seven canonical hours; sext
- middle states — those eastern states between the New England states and the South; New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland
- middle-endian — (data, architecture) Neither big-endian nor little-endian. Used of perverse byte orders such as 3-4-1-2 or 2-1-4-3, occasionally found in the packed decimal formats of some minicomputer manufacturers. See -endian.
- middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
- midsummer day — the saint's day of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24, being one of the four quarter days in England.
- midterm exams — exams taken during the middle of a term in a school, university, etc
- mild-mannered — If you describe someone as mild-mannered, you approve of them because they are gentle, kind, and polite.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- military band — a musical band, usually made up of players of wind, percussion and some brass instruments, that play at military functions, etc
- milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
- millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004