12-letter words containing c, m, o, n
- mental block — inability to recall
- mesoamerican — Alternative form of Mesoamerican.
- mesocyclones — Plural form of mesocyclone.
- 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.
- metafunction — (computing, programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
- 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.
- metallogenic — relating to metallogeny
- metalorganic — (chemistry) organometallic.
- metronomical — a mechanical or electrical instrument that makes repeated clicking sounds at an adjustable pace, used for marking rhythm, especially in practicing music.
- mexican onyx — a translucent, banded variety of calcite, used for ornamental and decorative pieces.
- 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.
- microanatomy — the branch of anatomy dealing with microscopic structures (distinguished from gross anatomy).
- microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
- microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
- microcentury — One CS professor used to characterise the standard length of his lectures as a microcentury - that is, about 52.6 minutes (see also attoparsec, nanoacre, and especially microfortnight).
- microcopying — the act of copying onto microfilm
- microelement — Trace element.
- microfilming — Present participle of microfilm.
- microfinance — (finance) Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.
- microgranite — an igneous rock with an identical composition and mineral content to granite, but having a finer texture
- microinsurer — (insurance) An insurer providing microinsurance, small low-cost policies aimed at underserved groups.
- microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- micromanaged — Simple past tense and past participle of micromanage.
- micromanager — One who micromanages.
- micronucleus — the smaller of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans.
- micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
- microphonics — (electronics) The phenomenon where certain components in electronic devices transform mechanical vibrations into an unwanted electrical signal.
- microphoning — Present participle of microphone.
- microphonism — a usually undesirable property of some electronic circuits or components in which mechanical vibrations of a component affect the signal being transmitted through the circuit.
- 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.
- microprinted — printed in microprint
- microseconds — Plural form of microsecond.
- microsegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by juncture.
- 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.
- microsurgeon — a person who performs microsurgery
- microtonally — In a microtonal manner.
- midcontinent — In or near the middle of a continent.
- middle congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- milliseconds — Plural form of millisecond.
- minicomputer — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- minification — The reduction in apparent size of objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase the field of view, such as a convex or aspheric mirror or a Fresnel lens.
- minirecorder — a small tape recorder, using minicassettes.
- minor arcana — one of the two divisions of a pack of tarot cards
- minor tenace — the king and jack of a suit held by one player.
- 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