12-letter words containing i, r, e, m, o
- minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
- minor tenace — the king and jack of a suit held by one player.
- minor-league — of or relating to a minor league.
- mips project — Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
- mirror image — an image of an object, plan, person, etc., as it would appear if viewed in a mirror, with right and left reversed.
- mis director — Chief Information Officer
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- misconstrues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misconstrue.
- miscreations — Plural form of miscreation.
- misdemeanors — Plural form of misdemeanor.
- misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- misdirection — a wrong or incorrect direction, guidance, or instruction.
- misericordia — (legal, obsolete) An amercement.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- misgoverning — Present participle of misgovern.
- misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- misorientate — misorient.
- mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- misrecognize — (psychology, computing) To recognize in error.
- misrecollect — to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
- missionaries — Plural form of missionary.
- missionarize — to undertake missionary work
- misventurous — characterized by a mishap
- mitteleuropa — Central Europe.
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
- mock-serious — pretending to be serious as a joke, etc
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
- moire effect — the appearance, when two regularly spaced sets of lines are superimposed, of a new set of lines (moiré pattern) passing through the points where the original lines cross at small angles.
- moistureless — Devoid of moisture.
- moisturizers — Plural form of moisturizer.
- 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.
- molly miller — a blenny, Scartella cristata, of Atlantic seas.
- money cowrie — the highly polished, usually brightly colored shell of a marine gastropod of the genus Cypraea, as that of C. moneta (money cowrie) used as money in certain parts of Asia and Africa, or that of C. tigris, used for ornament.
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- mongrelizing — Present participle of mongrelize.
- monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- monochloride — a chloride containing one atom of chlorine with one atom of another element or a group.
- monodisperse — (of a colloid) Having particles of (approximately) the same size.
- monofluoride — (chemistry) any fluoride containing a single fluorine atom in each molecule.
- monopolizers — Plural form of monopolizer.
- monotrichate — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- mons veneris — the mons pubis of the human female.
- monsterizing — Present participle of monsterize.