12-letter words containing d, e, l, a
- matabeleland — a region in Zimbabwe, formerly a province of Rhodesia, home to the Ndebele (Matabele).
- materialised — Simple past tense and past participle of materialise.
- materialized — Simple past tense and past participle of materialize.
- matinee idol — a male actor, usually a leading man, idolized especially by female audiences.
- matriculated — Be enrolled at a college or university.
- mcleod gauge — a device for determining very low gas pressures by manometrically measuring the pressure of a sample after its compression to a known fraction of its original volume.
- meander line — a zigzag traverse made to define the approximate margin of a natural body of water.
- meanderingly — In a meandering or winding manner.
- medal-holder — a person who has won a medal
- medal-winner — a person who has won a medal or medals
- media player — Digital Technology. a portable electronic device or a software program that plays and stores digital audio or video files in various formats.
- mediaevalism — Alternative spelling of medievalism.
- median plane — a vertical plane that divides an organism into symmetrical halves.
- medical care — the professional attention of medical practitioners
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- medical ward — a hospital ward in which patients are being treated by drugs rather than surgery
- medicalizing — Present participle of medicalize.
- medico-legal — pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine.
- medievalisms — Plural form of medievalism.
- medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
- meditational — Of, or pertaining to, meditation.
- meditatively — given to, characterized by, or indicative of meditation; contemplative.
- medley relay — Track. a relay race in which individual members of a team usually run an unequal portion of the total distance. Compare distance medley, sprint medley.
- megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
- mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
- melodramatic — of, like, or befitting melodrama.
- memorial day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
- memorialised — Simple past tense and past participle of memorialise.
- memorialized — (US) Simple past tense and past participle of memorialize.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- mendel's law — law of segregation.
- meridianally — Along lines of meridian, longitudinally.
- meridionally — In a meridional manner.
- meter-candle — lux. Abbreviation: mc.
- metered mail — mail on which the postage is printed directly on an envelope or label by a machine licensed by the postal service.
- methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- middle class — educated and well off
- middle guard — a defensive lineman positioned opposite the offensive center and between the defensive tackles, as in a three- or five-man line.
- middle latin — Medieval Latin
- middle plane — middle distance (def 1).
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- middle-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class; bourgeois: middle-class taste; middle-class morality.
- midlatitudes — Areas lying between 35 and 55 (or more broadly, between 30 and 60) degrees north or south of the equator.
- miner's dial — dial (def 6).
- miracle drug — wonder drug.
- misadvisedly — ill-advisedly
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misleadingly — In a misleading manner.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature