12-letter words containing m, a, n, i, o
- antiromantic — opposed to romanticism
- antiroyalism — Opposition to royals or royalism.
- antithrombin — a substance that counteracts the action of thrombin, preventing the formation of blood clots
- antitumoural — acting against or upon tumours
- apicomplexan — Describing protists of the phylum Apicomplexa.
- appointments — Plural form of appointment.
- aqua ammonia — a water solution of ammonia; ammonia water; ammonium hydroxide
- archiphoneme — an abstract linguistic unit representing two or more phonemes when the distinction between these has been neutralized: conventionally shown by a capital letter within slashes, as /T/ for /t/ and /d/ in German Rat and Rad
- area bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped over the general area of a target.
- arithmomania — an obsessive desire to count objects, or a fixation with numbers and calculations
- assimilation — an assimilating or being assimilated
- assimulation — Obsolete form of assimilation.
- astonishment — Astonishment is a feeling of great surprise.
- astrodynamic — Pertaining to astrodynamics.
- astronomical — If you describe an amount, especially the cost of something as astronomical, you are emphasizing that it is very large indeed.
- asynchronism — a lack of synchronism; occurrence at different times
- auction room — a room in a building where auctions take place
- augmentation — the act of augmenting or the state of being augmented
- autoimmunity — (pathology, immunology) The condition where one's immune system attacks one's own tissues, i.e., an autoimmune disorder.
- automatizing — Present participle of automatize.
- automobiling — (dated) present participle of automobile.
- autumn olive — a spiny shrub (Elaeagnus umbellata) of the oleaster family, having leaves covered with silvery or brown scales
- avitaminosis — any disease caused by a vitamin deficiency in the diet
- avitaminotic — of or relating to avitaminosis
- ayuntamiento — (in Spain) a municipal council
- azithromycin — A macrolide antibiotic derived from erythromycin.
- baby monitor — a device that transmits sounds made by a baby to another room
- back molding — a molding, as a backband, applied to interior window and door trim to conceal the edge of the wall surface.
- balletomania — passionate enthusiasm for ballet
- barnstorming — A barnstorming performance is full of energy and very exciting to watch.
- barodynamics — the branch of mechanics concerned with heavy structures
- beachcombing — The action of a beachcomber.
- bead molding — bead (def 12).
- bibliomaniac — excessive fondness for acquiring and possessing books.
- bio-organism — a dangerous fast-proliferating organism that could be used as the basis of a biological weapon
- bioastronomy — the branch of biology which deals with the study or the discovery of life forms on other planets or in space
- biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
- biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
- biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
- biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
- box magazine — a rectangular cartridge holder in a submachine or light machine gun.
- boxing match — a competition between two boxers
- brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- broad-minded — If you describe someone as broad-minded, you approve of them because they are willing to accept types of behaviour which other people consider immoral.
- bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.