12-letter words containing e, n, l, a, c
- malacca cane — a cane or walking stick made of the brown, often mottled or clouded stem of an East Indian rattan palm, Calamus scipionum.
- malcontented — Malcontent.
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- malefeasance — Obsolete form of malfeasance.
- malfeasances — Plural form of malfeasance.
- malignancies — Plural form of malignancy.
- manna lichen — any of several crustose lichens of the genus Lecanora, especially L. esculenta, found in the African and Arabian deserts, used for food by humans and other animals.
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
- masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
- mass balance — Mass balance is a consideration of the input, output, and distribution of a substance between streams in a process or stage.
- mecamylamine — a ganglion-blocking drug administered orally to lower high blood pressure. Formula: C11H21N
- mechanically — having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
- mechanizable — Capable of being mechanized.
- mechlin lace — a fine bobbin lace with raised cord, originally made in Mechlin.
- meclonazepam — A benzodiazepine derivative, similar in structure to clonazepam, with sedative and anxiolytic effects and antiparasitic activity against Schistosoma mansoni.
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- medicalizing — Present participle of medicalize.
- megalomaniac — a person afflicted with megalomania.
- melancholiac — affected with melancholia.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- melanochroic — Melanochroid
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- mental block — inability to recall
- mercantilism — mercantile practices or spirit; commercialism.
- mercantilist — Of, pertaining to, or believing in mercantilism.
- merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
- metallogenic — relating to metallogeny
- metalorganic — (chemistry) organometallic.
- meter-candle — lux. Abbreviation: mc.
- metronomical — a mechanical or electrical instrument that makes repeated clicking sounds at an adjustable pace, used for marking rhythm, especially in practicing music.
- 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.
- 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.
- misalliances — Plural form of misalliance.
- 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.
- monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
- monometallic — of or using one metal.
- mount carmel — a mountain ridge in NW Israel, extending from the Samarian Hills to the Mediterranean. Highest point: about 540 m (1800 ft)
- multicauline — having multiple stems
- multicentral — having or dependent on several centres; multicentre
- multichannel — Employing or possessing many television or communications channels.
- multinuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.