12-letter words containing d, i, m, n, e, s
- middlingness — Quality of being middling.
- midwesterner — Middle West.
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- milliseconds — Plural form of millisecond.
- mindlessness — without intelligence; senseless: a mindless creature.
- miner's dial — dial (def 6).
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- minidiskette — Alternative spelling of mini-diskette.
- minor orders — the degree or grade of acolyte, exorcist, lector, or ostiary.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- misconceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misconceive.
- misconducted — Simple past tense and past participle of misconduct.
- misconnected — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- misdemeanant — a person who is guilty of misbehavior.
- misdemeaning — to misbehave (oneself).
- misdemeanors — Plural form of misdemeanor.
- misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- misdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of misdiagnose.
- misdiagnoses — to make an incorrect diagnosis.
- misdirecting — Present participle of misdirect.
- misdirection — a wrong or incorrect direction, guidance, or instruction.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- misery index — an unofficial indication of a nation's economic health, derived by adding the percentage rate of inflation to the percentage of unemployed workers: With inflation running at 15 percent and unemployment at 8 percent, the misery index is 23 percent.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- misjudgement — Alternative form of misjudgment.
- misjudgments — Plural form of misjudgment.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- misleadingly — In a misleading manner.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- molybdenosis — a disease of ruminants, especially cattle, caused by dietary intake of excessive molybdenum with resultant copper deficiency, characterized by persistent diarrhea and, especially around the eyes, a fading of coat pigment.
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- monodisperse — (of a colloid) Having particles of (approximately) the same size.
- morris dance — a rural folk dance of north English origin, performed in costume traditionally by men who originally represented characters of the Robin Hood legend, especially in May Day festivities.
- mountainside — The sloping surface of a mountain.
- 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).
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- non-domestic — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- omnidistance — the distance between an omnirange station and a receiver.
- permissioned — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
- pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
- re-admission — the act of allowing to enter; entrance granted by permission, by provision or existence of pecuniary means, or by the removal of obstacles: the admission of aliens into a country.
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- rose diamond — a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top
- salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.