12-letter words containing a, r, m, i
- miracle drug — wonder drug.
- miracle mile — an extended area of fashionable or expensive shops, restaurants, etc., usually along an urban or suburban thoroughfare.
- miracle play — a medieval dramatic form dealing with religious subjects such as Biblical stories or saints' lives, usually presented in a series or cycle by the craft guilds.
- miraculously — In a miraculous manner.
- mirror canon — a canon in which the parts are written as though seen in a mirror placed between them: one part or set of parts is the upside-down image of the other
- mirror image — an image of an object, plan, person, etc., as it would appear if viewed in a mirror, with right and left reversed.
- mirror plant — a shrub, Coprosma repens, of the madder family, native to New Zealand and cultivated in warm regions, having glossy, often variegated leaves.
- misaddressed — Simple past tense and past participle of misaddress.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misandristic — Exhibiting misandry; man-hating.
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misappraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- miscarriages — Plural form of miscarriage.
- miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
- 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.
- miserabilism — Gloomy pessimism or negativity.
- miserabilist — One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
- misericordia — (legal, obsolete) An amercement.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- 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.
- misportrayal — the act of portraying.
- missionaries — Plural form of missionary.
- missionarize — to undertake missionary work
- mistranslate — Translate (something) incorrectly.
- mistreatment — to treat badly or abusively.
- miter square — an instrument for laying out miter joints, consisting of two straightedges joined at a 45° angle.
- mithridatism — the production of immunity against the action of a poison by taking the poison in gradually increased doses.
- mithridatize — to induce a state of mithridatism in (a person).
- mitochondria — an organelle in the cytoplasm of cells that functions in energy production.
- mitrailleuse — a machine gun.
- mitral valve — the valve between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart, consisting of two triangular flaps of tissue, that prevents the blood from flowing back into the atrium.
- mitre square — a tool with two blades that are at a fixed angle to one another, used to bevel a mitre joint
- mitteleuropa — Central Europe.
- mixing ratio — the ratio of the mass of water vapor in the air to the mass of the dry air, a measure of atmospheric humidity.
- mixobarbaric — relating to a people who have both Greek and non-Greek ancestry
- mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
- mockingboard — (hardware) A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
- modificatory — modifying.