13-letter words containing l, i, m, e
- micrometrical — Micrometric; relating to micrometry or a micrometer.
- micronucleate — having a micronucleus.
- microparticle — An extremely small particle.
- microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
- middle comedy — Greek Attic comedy of the 4th century b.c. The few extant fragments are characterized chiefly by a realistic depiction of everyday life.
- middle course — an option or alternative between more extreme alternatives
- middle finger — the finger between the forefinger and the third finger.
- middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
- middle ground — an intermediate position, area, or recourse between two opposites or extremes; a halfway or neutral standpoint.
- middle school — a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.
- middle states — those eastern states between the New England states and the South; New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland
- middle temple — an edifice or place dedicated to the service or worship of a deity or deities.
- middle-endian — (data, architecture) Neither big-endian nor little-endian. Used of perverse byte orders such as 3-4-1-2 or 2-1-4-3, occasionally found in the packed decimal formats of some minicomputer manufacturers. See -endian.
- middle-income — of or relating to those with an average income within the overall population.
- middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
- middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- middleweights — Plural form of middleweight.
- midnight blue — Something that is midnight blue is a very dark blue colour, almost black.
- midriff bulge — a roll of fat around your midriff
- midterm blues — the tendency of electorate to grow disillusioned with government around halfway through its term of office
- might as well — have no reason not to
- mild-mannered — If you describe someone as mild-mannered, you approve of them because they are gentle, kind, and polite.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- miliary fever — an acute infectious fever characterized by profuse sweating and the formation on the skin of minute fluid-filled vesicles
- military base — a facility for the storage of military equipment and the training of soldiers
- military pace — a pace, equal to a single step, used to coordinate the marching of soldiers, equal in the U.S. to 2½ feet (76 cm) for quick time and 3 feet (91 cm) for double time.
- military time — 24-hour clock
- milk lameness — a disease of cattle that produce a high milk yield, characterized by hip lameness associated with a low concentration of phosphorus in the blood
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
- milk sickness — a disease of humans, formerly common in some parts of the Middle West, caused by consuming milk from cattle that have been poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot.
- milky disease — a bacterial disease of scarab beetle larvae and grubs, especially the Japanese beetle, which turns the larvae white.
- millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
- mille-feuille — napoleon (def 1).
- milledgeville — a city in central Georgia: state capital 1807–68.
- millefeuilles — Plural form of millefeuille.
- millennialism — a belief in the millennium.
- millennialist — A believer in millennialism.
- millilamberts — Plural form of millilambert.
- millionairess — a woman who is a millionaire.
- milliroentgen — a unit of radiation equal to one thousandth of a roentgen. Abbreviation: mR, mr.
- mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
- milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
- milos process — The MILOS process is a process that uses an additional riser in the FCC, which gives the refiner options to simultaneously maximize production of diesel and propylene.
- milton keynes — a residential district in S England, near London, established in the 1960s.
- mind-altering — causing marked changes in patterns of mood and behavior, as a hallucinogenic drug.
- mindblindness — The inability to deduce or make educated guesses about another person's mental state.
- mine disposal — the removal, disarming, or destruction of explosive mines
- mine-clearing — the process of disarming and removing explosive mines from an area
- mineral jelly — a gelatinous product made from petroleum, used to stabilize certain explosives.