12-letter words containing a, n, o, m, l
- melanization — the process of melanizing, or the state of being melanized
- melanoblasts — Plural form of melanoblast.
- melanochroic — Melanochroid
- melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
- melanophores — Plural form of melanophore.
- melanotropin — MSH.
- melon baller — a small cooking utensil with a handle and a rounded scoop, which you insert into a melon and twist to extract a ball of flesh
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- mental block — inability to recall
- meridionally — In a meridional manner.
- meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
- mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
- metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
- metabolizing — Present participle of metabolize.
- metallogenic — relating to metallogeny
- metallophone — any musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of metal bars that may either be struck by hammers operated manually or played with a keyboard.
- metalorganic — (chemistry) organometallic.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- methaqualone — a nonbarbiturate sedative-hypnotic substance, C 1 6 H 1 4 N 2 O, used to induce sleep: also widely used as an illicit drug.
- metronomical — a mechanical or electrical instrument that makes repeated clicking sounds at an adjustable pace, used for marking rhythm, especially in practicing music.
- metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- michelangelo — (Michelangelo Buonarroti) 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
- microanalyst — One who carries out microanalysis.
- microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
- microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- microtonally — In a microtonal manner.
- militiawoman — A female member of a militia.
- militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
- 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.
- millionnaire — a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more in some unit of currency, as dollars.
- mineral wool — a woollike material for heat and sound insulation, made by blowing steam or air through molten slag or rock.
- mineralogies — Plural form of mineralogy.
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
- mineralogize — (intransitive) To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
- minor league — professional non-premier sports association
- minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
- minor-league — of or relating to a minor league.
- mirror plant — a shrub, Coprosma repens, of the madder family, native to New Zealand and cultivated in warm regions, having glossy, often variegated leaves.
- misallotment — improper or wrong allotment
- misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
- mnemonically — assisting or intended to assist the memory.
- mobilisation — The act of mobilising.
- mobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
- modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- mole mapping — the procedure of using a digital camera to record the positions and appearances of moles on a person's body so that regular checks will detect any changes that might lead to skin cancer
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- monastically — In a monastic manner.