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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
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