12-letter words containing l, a, m, r
- middle guard — a defensive lineman positioned opposite the offensive center and between the defensive tackles, as in a three- or five-man line.
- militaristic — a person imbued with militarism.
- militarizing — Present participle of militarize.
- military law — the body of laws relating to the government of the armed forces; rules and regulations for the conduct of military personnel.
- milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
- milliammeter — an instrument for measuring small electric currents, calibrated in milliamperes.
- milliamperes — Plural form of milliampere.
- millilambert — a unit of luminance equal to one thousandth of a lambert. Abbreviation: mL.
- millionaires — Plural form of millionaire.
- millionnaire — a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more in some unit of currency, as dollars.
- milman parry — Milman, 1902–35, U.S. classical scholar and philologist.
- miner's dial — dial (def 6).
- mineral wool — a woollike material for heat and sound insulation, made by blowing steam or air through molten slag or rock.
- mineralizing — Present participle of mineralize.
- mineralogies — Plural form of mineralogy.
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
- mineralogize — (intransitive) To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
- minimal pair — a pair of words, as pin and bin, or bet and bed, differing only by one sound in the same position in each word, especially when such a pair is taken as evidence for the existence of a phonemic contrast between the two sounds.
- minor league — professional non-premier sports association
- minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
- minor-league — of or relating to a minor league.
- miracle cure — a successful treatment for a disease that was thought impossible to cure
- miracle drug — wonder drug.
- miracle mile — an extended area of fashionable or expensive shops, restaurants, etc., usually along an urban or suburban thoroughfare.
- miracle play — a medieval dramatic form dealing with religious subjects such as Biblical stories or saints' lives, usually presented in a series or cycle by the craft guilds.
- miraculously — In a miraculous manner.
- mirror plant — a shrub, Coprosma repens, of the madder family, native to New Zealand and cultivated in warm regions, having glossy, often variegated leaves.
- misappraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
- miserabilism — Gloomy pessimism or negativity.
- miserabilist — One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
- misportrayal — the act of portraying.
- mistranslate — Translate (something) incorrectly.
- mitrailleuse — a machine gun.
- mitral valve — the valve between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart, consisting of two triangular flaps of tissue, that prevents the blood from flowing back into the atrium.
- mitteleuropa — Central Europe.
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
- modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- molar volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a gas, liquid, or solid.
- mole-catcher — someone or something who catches, traps, or kills moles
- molecularity — the number of molecules or atoms that participate in an elementary process.
- money player — a person who performs best under pressure, especially in a competitive situation.
- 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.
- monocultural — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
- monsignorial — having the ecclesiastical title of a Monsignor
- moral hazard — Insurance. an insurance company's risk as to the insured's trustworthiness and honesty.
- moralisation — Standard spelling of moralization.
- moralization — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- moralizingly — In a moralizing fashion.