12-letter words containing e, l, i, c, o, m
- 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.
- microculture — subculture (def 3b).
- microecology — the ecology of a microhabitat.
- microelement — Trace element.
- microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- micronucleus — the smaller of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans.
- 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 microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- microvessels — Plural form of microvessel.
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- middle congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- middle voice — the voice or form used when the subject of a verb performs an action on itself (often the reflexive form)
- milliseconds — Plural form of millisecond.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misallocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misallocate.
- misrecollect — to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
- mnemonically — assisting or intended to assist the memory.
- mole cricket — any of several burrowing crickets of the family Gryllotalpidae that have fossorial forelegs and that feed on the roots of plants.
- molecularity — the number of molecules or atoms that participate in an elementary process.
- molluscicide — A substance that kills molluscs.
- monkey climb — a wrestling throw in which a contestant seizes his or her opponent's arms or neck, places his feet on the opponent's stomach, and falls backwards, straightening the legs and throwing the opponent over his or her head
- monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
- monochloride — a chloride containing one atom of chlorine with one atom of another element or a group.
- monometallic — of or using one metal.
- monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
- monticellite — a mineral, silicate of magnesium and calcium, CaMgSiO 4 , belonging to the olivine group and often occurring in contact metamorphosed limestones.
- mortice lock — A mortice lock is a type of lock which fits into a hole cut into the edge of a door rather than being fixed to one side of it.
- mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
- motorbicycle — a small, lightweight motorcycle.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- multi-voiced — having a voice of a specified kind (usually used in combination): shrill-voiced.
- multicolored — of several or many colors.
- multicostate — having several costae or ribs
- multipotency — (cytology, developmental biology) The ability of a progenitor cell to develop into a limited number of cell types.
- museological — Pertaining to museology.
- music locker — Digital Technology. an online service that supports cloud-based storage of digital music files so as to allow users to stream or download their personal music collections for playback on any compatible device: I uploaded all my CDs to a music locker, and now I can access the music from my laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
- myrmecophile — An invertebrate or plant that has a symbiotic relationship with ants, such as being tended and protected by ants or living inside an ants' nest.
- myrmecophily — symbiosis with ants
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- noematically — in an intellectual manner
- nomenclative — relating to the act of naming
- nomothetical — Nomothetic.
- non-complier — a person, group, etc., that complies.
- non-metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- nondomiciled — of, relating to, or denoting a person who is not domiciled in his or her country of origin
- nonempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- nonmedically — In a nonmedical manner.
- nonmedicinal — Not medicinal.
- nonmercurial — not composed of, resembling, or containing mercury
- nonnumerical — not containing or involving numbers