12-letter words containing m, e, c, l
- methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- methoxychlor — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 6 H 1 5 Cl 3 O 2 , used as an insecticide.
- meticulosity — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- meticulously — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- metrological — the science of weights and measures.
- metronomical — a mechanical or electrical instrument that makes repeated clicking sounds at an adjustable pace, used for marking rhythm, especially in practicing music.
- michael viii — surnamed Palaeologus (ˈpælɪəˌləʊɡəs). 1224–82, Byzantine emperor (1259–82); founder of the Palaeologan dynasty. His reign saw the recovery of Constantinople from the Latins (1261) and the reunion (1274) of the Greek and Roman churches
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- michelangelo — (Michelangelo Buonarroti) 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
- microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
- microblogger — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
- microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- microcephaly — having a head with a small braincase.
- microclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- microculture — subculture (def 3b).
- microecology — the ecology of a microhabitat.
- microelement — Trace element.
- microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- micronucleus — the smaller of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans.
- microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- microvessels — Plural form of microvessel.
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- middle class — educated and well off
- middle congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- middle dutch — the Dutch language of the period c1100–c1500. Abbreviation: MD.
- middle voice — the voice or form used when the subject of a verb performs an action on itself (often the reflexive form)
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- middle-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class; bourgeois: middle-class taste; middle-class morality.
- middlescence — the middle-age period of life, especially when considered a difficult time of self-doubt and readjustment.
- milliseconds — Plural form of millisecond.
- 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.
- misalliances — Plural form of misalliance.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misallocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misallocate.
- miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- miscellanies — a miscellaneous collection or group of various or somewhat unrelated items.
- miscellanist — a person who writes, compiles, or edits miscellanies.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- misrecollect — to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
- mnemonically — assisting or intended to assist the memory.
- mole cricket — any of several burrowing crickets of the family Gryllotalpidae that have fossorial forelegs and that feed on the roots of plants.
- mole-catcher — someone or something who catches, traps, or kills moles