12-letter words containing d, i, a, n, t
- matinee idol — a male actor, usually a leading man, idolized especially by female audiences.
- matricentred — Matricentric.
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- meat grinder — machine: minces meat
- media center — a library, usually in school, that contains and encourages the use of audiovisual media and associated equipment as well as books, periodicals, and the like.
- median point — centroid (def 2).
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
- meditational — Of, or pertaining to, meditation.
- metasediment — (petrology) A metamorphosed sedimentary rock.
- mid-atlantic — using, manifesting, or characterized by a mixture of American and British behavior or speech.
- midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
- middle latin — Medieval Latin
- ming dynasty — the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- miniaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturize.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misandristic — Exhibiting misandry; man-hating.
- misdemeanant — a person who is guilty of misbehavior.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- mitochondria — an organelle in the cytoplasm of cells that functions in energy production.
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
- modification — an act or instance of modifying.
- monodramatic — Relating to a monodrama.
- mountain dew — moonshine; whisky that has been illegally distilled
- mountainside — The sloping surface of a mountain.
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- muffin stand — a small stand having several tiers for holding muffins, cakes, etc., and a tea service.
- multidentate — having several or many teeth or toothlike processes.
- multinodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.
- multiplicand — a number to be multiplied by another.
- namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- nand circuit — Computers. a circuit that is energized when any one of its inputs is not energized.
- nationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of nationalise.
- nationalized — Simple past tense and past participle of nationalize.
- nautical day — a period from noon of one day to noon of the next, used in reckoning time aboard ship.
- near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- necessitated — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- nicotinamide — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 6 N 2 O, the amide of nicotinic acid, and a component of the vitamin-B complex, found in meat, liver, fish, whole wheat, and eggs: used in medicine chiefly as an agent for preventing or treating human pellagra or animal black tongue.
- nidification — to build a nest.
- night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
- night lizard — any of several nocturnal lizards of the family Xantusiidae, of southwestern North America and Cuba, which bear live young.
- ninth-grader — a student in their ninth year at school
- nip and tuck — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.
- nomadization — the process of becoming like a nomad, or making nomadic in character
- non-adoption — the act of adopting: the adoption of a new amendment.
- non-detailed — thorough in the treatment of details; minute: a detailed report.