12-letter words containing e, n, s, p
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- meeting post — a timber with a chamfer at the outer edge of a lock gate that fits against the meeting post of another lock gate.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melanophores — Plural form of melanophore.
- mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
- mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
- mesopotamian — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
- mine-sweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
- minesweepers — Plural form of minesweeper.
- minesweeping — (nautical) The detection and safe disposal of mines.
- ministership — (government) The position held by a minister.
- mis-shipment — a quantity of freight or cargo shipped at one time.
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- mishappening — Present participle of mishappen.
- misinterpret — Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.
- misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- misrepresent — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
- misspellings — Plural form of misspelling.
- modus ponens — the principle that whenever a conditional statement and its antecedent are given to be true its consequent may be validly inferred, as in if it's Tuesday this must be Belgium and it's Tuesday so this must be Belgium
- mona passage — a strait between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. 80 miles (129 km) wide.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- mond process — a process for obtaining nickel by heating the ore in carbon monoxide to produce nickel carbonyl vapour, which is then decomposed at a higher temperature to yield the metal
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- money supply — the sum of demand or checking-account deposits and currency in circulation.
- monodisperse — (of a colloid) Having particles of (approximately) the same size.
- monopetalous — gamopetalous.
- monophysites — Plural form of monophysite.
- monopolizers — Plural form of monopolizer.
- monosepalous — gamosepalous.
- monospecific — having or comprising a single species
- monospermous — having one seed.
- monoterpenes — Plural form of monoterpene.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- montparnasse — a district in S Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine: noted for its cafés and the artists and writers who have frequented and lived in the area.
- mucoproteins — Plural form of mucoprotein.
- multipresent — able to be present in several places simultaneously
- mycoproteins — Plural form of mycoprotein.
- myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
- n hemisphere — that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator
- napier grass — a tall, leafy grass, Pennisetum purpureum, native to Africa, grown as a forage plant.
- nature strip — a grass strip in front of a house between a fence or footpath and a roadway