12-letter words containing i, s, o, t, n
- loosefitting — fitting loosely
- loosely-knit — associated or linked in a loose way
- lose no time — act without delay
- lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- luminosities — Plural form of luminosity.
- lysogenicity — the quality or condition of being lysogenic
- lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis
- machinations — an act or instance of machinating.
- macintosh ii — (computer) (Mac II) A version of Apple's Macintosh personal computer, released in March 1987, using the Motorola 68020 CPU, which runs at a higher clock rate than the Motorola 68000 used in the original Mac. The Mac II has a full 32-bit data bus instead of a 16-bit bus. Mac II models have built-in 40 to 160 megabyte hard disks and can take up to eight megabytes of RAM (and more as denser memory chips arive). The Mac II was the first Macintosh to provide a colour graphics option, with up to 256 colours on screen at a 640x480 resolution. Mac II models are designed for expandability with three (Macintosh IIcx) or six (II & IIx) built-in NuBus expansion slots for additional peripheral and coprocessor boards.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
- magnetotaxis — movement or orientation of an organism in response to a magnetic field.
- magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
- main-topmast — the mast next above the main lower mast.
- main-topsail — a topsail set on the mainmast.
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
- malpositions — Plural form of malposition.
- malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- marconi mast — an elaborately stayed mast.
- marionettist — A puppeteer who controls a marionette.
- master point — a point awarded to a bridge player who has won or placed in an officially recognized tournament.
- mastications — Plural form of mastication.
- mastigonemes — Plural form of mastigoneme.
- mastoid bone — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
- masturbation — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- matriclinous — Having mostly maternally-inherited characteristics.
- matrimonials — Plural form of matrimonial.
- matroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- maximisation — Alternative spelling of maximization.
- mechatronics — The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering for the study of automata from an engineering perspective and the control of advanced hybrid systems.
- 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.
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- memorisation — Alternative spelling of memorization.
- meniscectomy — the surgical excision of a meniscus, as of the knee joint.
- menstruation — the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus, occurring approximately monthly from puberty to menopause in nonpregnant women and females of other primate species.
- mesopotamian — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
- metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
- metabonomics — (biochemistry, genetics) metabolomics.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- metagenomics — (genetics) The study of genomes recovered from environmental samples; especially the differentiation of genomes from multiple organisms or individuals, either in a symbiotic relationship, or at a crime scene.
- microanalyst — One who carries out microanalysis.
- microsegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by juncture.
- microstation — (application) A full-featured 2-D and 3-D CAD program for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and Unix workstations from Bentley Systems, Inc. Created in 1984, MicroStation is a high-end package used worldwide in environments where many designers work on large, complex projects. MicroStation Modeler is a superset of MicroStation that provides solid modelling, and MasterPiece is MicroStation's rendering and animation program.
- 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.