12-letter words containing m, a, l, d, i
- holiday camp — In Britain, a holiday camp is a place which provides holiday accommodation and entertainment for large numbers of people.
- holiday home — a home that people own in order to holiday in and that is in a different location to the home they usually live in
- holidaymaker — vacationer.
- human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- ill-mannered — having bad or poor manners; impolite; discourteous; rude.
- imidacloprid — The insecticide 1-(6-chloro-3-pyridylmethyl)-N-nitroimidazolidin-2-ylideneamine used to control fleas in domestic pets.
- immeadiately — Misspelling of immediately.
- immethodical — not methodical; without method or system.
- immoderately — In an immoderate manner.
- immortalised — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- immortalized — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- impedimental — Of the nature of an impediment; hindering or obstructing.
- imperialised — Simple past tense and past participle of imperialise.
- imperialized — Simple past tense and past participle of imperialize.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- inadmissible — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
- inadmissibly — In an inadmissible way.
- indo-malayan — of Indian and Malayan origin, sponsorship, etc.
- inflamedness — The state or quality of being inflamed.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- irredeemable — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.
- irredeemably — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.
- irremediable — not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair: irremediable conduct.
- irremediably — not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair: irremediable conduct.
- jamal ud-din — (Jamal ud-Din al-Afghani) 1838–97, Muslim educator and political leader, born in Persia: founder of modern Pan-Islamism.
- kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
- ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
- lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
- landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
- large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
- laue diagram — a diffraction pattern used to study crystal structure, consisting of symmetrically arranged spots obtained when a beam of x-rays, electrons, or neutrons is passed through a thin crystal and exposes a photographic plate.
- leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
- lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
- like a dream — If you say that someone does something like a dream, you think that they do it very well. If you say that something happens like a dream, you mean that it happens successfully without any problems.
- lime cordial — a drink made from sweetened lime juice and plain or carbonated water
- linseed meal — ground linseed cake.
- liquidambars — Plural form of liquidambar.
- loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
- lyme disease — an acute inflammatory disease caused by a tick-borne spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi , characterized by recurrent episodes of decreasing severity in which joint swelling, fever, and rash occur, sometimes with cardiac or nervous system complications.
- macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
- machicolated — Having machicolations.
- mademoiselle — (often initial capital letter) a French title of respect equivalent to “Miss”, used in speaking to or of a girl or unmarried woman: Mademoiselle Lafitte. Abbreviation: Mlle.
- madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
- madonna lily — a lily, Lilium candidum, having clusters of pure white, bell-shaped flowers.
- magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
- maidenliness — The state or condition of being maidenly.
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.