12-letter words containing a, n, i, s, o
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- 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.
- microanalyst — One who carries out microanalysis.
- microstation — (application) A full-featured 2-D and 3-D CAD program for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and Unix workstations from Bentley Systems, Inc. Created in 1984, MicroStation is a high-end package used worldwide in environments where many designers work on large, complex projects. MicroStation Modeler is a superset of MicroStation that provides solid modelling, and MasterPiece is MicroStation's rendering and animation program.
- migrationist — a person who considers it important for species of animals and plants to migrate for the purposes of distribution and evolution
- millilampson — /mil'*-lamp"sn/ A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people speak faster. This unit is sometimes used to compare the (sometimes widely disparate) rates at which people can generate ideas and actually emit them in speech. For example, noted computer architect C. Gordon Bell (designer of the PDP-11) is said, with some awe, to think at about 1200 mL but only talk at about 300; he is frequently reduced to fragments of sentences as his mouth tries to keep up with his speeding brain.
- millionaires — Plural form of millionaire.
- mineralogies — Plural form of mineralogy.
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
- minimisation — Alternative spelling of minimization.
- ministration — the act of ministering care, aid, religious service, etc.
- misallotment — improper or wrong allotment
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
- 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.”.
- misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
- miscreations — Plural form of miscreation.
- misdemeanors — Plural form of misdemeanor.
- misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- misdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of misdiagnose.
- misdiagnoses — to make an incorrect diagnosis.
- misdiagnosis — an incorrect diagnosis.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- misformation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- misorientate — misorient.
- misquotation — the act of misquoting.
- missionaries — Plural form of missionary.
- missionarize — to undertake missionary work
- missummation — an incorrect summation
- mobilisation — The act of mobilising.
- monastically — In a monastic manner.
- monetisation — Alternative spelling of monetization.
- monosyllabic — having only one syllable, as the word no.
- monosynaptic — having or relating to a sole synapse
- monsignorial — having the ecclesiastical title of a Monsignor
- montebrasite — a mineral, lithium aluminum hydroxyl phosphate, LiAlPO 4 (OH), isomorphous with amblygonite, used as an ore of lithium.
- montessorian — a system for teaching young children, in which the fundamental aim is self-motivated education by the children themselves, as they are encouraged to move freely through individualized instruction and physical exercises, accompanied by special emphasis on the training of the senses and the early development of reading and writing skills.
- mooring mast — the mast or tower to which a dirigible is moored.
- moralisation — Standard spelling of moralization.
- morning star — a bright planet, especially Venus, seen in the east immediately before sunrise.
- morris dance — a rural folk dance of north English origin, performed in costume traditionally by men who originally represented characters of the Robin Hood legend, especially in May Day festivities.
- moss campion — cushion pink.
- motorisation — Alternative spelling of motorization.
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- mountain ash — variety of tree