12-letter words containing m, a, d, i, s
- misdiagnosis — an incorrect diagnosis.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- misericordia — (legal, obsolete) An amercement.
- misestimated — Simple past tense and past participle of misestimate.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- misleadingly — In a misleading manner.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- mithridatism — the production of immunity against the action of a poison by taking the poison in gradually increased doses.
- morris dance — a rural folk dance of north English origin, performed in costume traditionally by men who originally represented characters of the Robin Hood legend, especially in May Day festivities.
- mountainside — The sloping surface of a mountain.
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- muffin stand — a small stand having several tiers for holding muffins, cakes, etc., and a tea service.
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- nonadmission — Lack or absence of admission; failure to admit.
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- omnidistance — the distance between an omnirange station and a receiver.
- otitis media — inflammation of the middle ear, characterized by pain, dizziness, and impaired hearing.
- oxidant smog — photochemical smog.
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palm islands — a group of three man-made island systems under construction just off the shore in Dubai, each in the shape of a palm tree
- phosphamidon — a systemic and contact insecticide, C 1 0 H 1 9 ClNO 5 P, used against beetles, aphids, mites, and other crop pests.
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
- preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
- pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- re-admission — the act of allowing to enter; entrance granted by permission, by provision or existence of pecuniary means, or by the removal of obstacles: the admission of aliens into a country.
- reemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- rose diamond — a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top
- salamandrian — a salamander of the order Batrachia
- salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
- salamandroid — an amphibian of the genus Salamandra
- salicylamide — a compound of ammonia and gualtheria oil
- samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
- sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- scott domain — An algebraic, boundedly complete, complete partial order. Often simply called a domain.
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
- secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
- sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.