12-letter words containing e, l, c, a, m, i
- metrological — the science of weights and measures.
- metronomical — a mechanical or electrical instrument that makes repeated clicking sounds at an adjustable pace, used for marking rhythm, especially in practicing music.
- michael viii — surnamed Palaeologus (ˈpælɪəˌləʊɡəs). 1224–82, Byzantine emperor (1259–82); founder of the Palaeologan dynasty. His reign saw the recovery of Constantinople from the Latins (1261) and the reunion (1274) of the Greek and Roman churches
- 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.
- microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- microcephaly — having a head with a small braincase.
- microclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- 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 microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- middle class — educated and well off
- 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.
- miracle cure — a successful treatment for a disease that was thought impossible to cure
- miracle drug — wonder drug.
- miracle mile — an extended area of fashionable or expensive shops, restaurants, etc., usually along an urban or suburban thoroughfare.
- miracle play — a medieval dramatic form dealing with religious subjects such as Biblical stories or saints' lives, usually presented in a series or cycle by the craft guilds.
- misalliances — Plural form of misalliance.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misallocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misallocate.
- miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- miscellanies — a miscellaneous collection or group of various or somewhat unrelated items.
- miscellanist — a person who writes, compiles, or edits miscellanies.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mnemonically — assisting or intended to assist the memory.
- molecularity — the number of molecules or atoms that participate in an elementary process.
- monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
- monometallic — of or using one metal.
- muir glacier — a glacier in SE Alaska, flowing SE from Mt. Fairweather into Glacier Bay. About 350 sq. mi. (905 sq. km).
- multicauline — having multiple stems
- multicentral — having or dependent on several centres; multicentre
- multichannel — Employing or possessing many television or communications channels.
- multicostate — having several costae or ribs
- multidecadal — Involving multiple decades.
- multifaceted — Having many facets.
- multifurcate — forked; branching.
- multinuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- multiplicate — multiple; manifold.
- multisulcate — having many grooves or furrows
- multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
- multivalence — Chemistry. having a valence of three or higher.
- municipalize — to make a municipality of.
- museological — Pertaining to museology.
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- name-calling — the use of abusive names to belittle or humiliate another person in a political campaign, an argument, etc.
- noematically — in an intellectual manner