12-letter words containing m, e, i, l, t
- timber limit — the area to which rights of cutting timber, granted by government licence, are limited
- timberdoodle — the American woodcock, Philohela minor.
- time capsule — a receptacle containing documents or objects typical of the current period, placed in the earth or in a cornerstone for discovery in the future.
- time of life — age (of a person)
- time to live — (TTL) A field in the Internet Protocol header which indicates how many more hops this packet should be allowed to make before being discarded or returned.
- time-release — timed-release.
- torremolinos — a seaport in S Spain, on the Mediterranean, SW of Málaga: resort.
- trailer camp — an area where house trailers may be parked, usually having running water, electrical outlets, etc.
- trimethylene — cyclopropane.
- trimolecular — pertaining to or having three molecules.
- triple cream — a fresh, soft cheese of France, containing at least 72 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- triple rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- trivial name — a common name or vernacular name, as of a plant or animal
- trochelminth — any invertebrate of the phylum Trochelminthes (now usually broken up into several phyla), comprising the rotifers, gastrotrichs, and several other forms.
- ultima thule — (italics) Latin. the highest degree attainable.
- ultrarealism — extreme or intense realism
- un-laminated — formed of or set in thin layers or laminae.
- unacclimated — not accustomed or adapted to
- unadmittedly — to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.
- unambivalent — not ambivalent; definite; certain.
- uncle tomism — a policy of relationship between whites and blacks involving a benevolent but patronizing attitude on the part of the whites and a willingly submissive attitude on the part of the blacks.
- uncomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- undismantled — not dismantled or disassembled; complete, in one piece
- unit element — identity (def 9b).
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
- unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
- unmyelinated — pertaining to nerve fibers that are not covered with a myelin sheath.
- unnilpentium — dubnium.
- unnilseptium — bohrium.
- unremittable — to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
- unremittedly — continuously; uninterruptedly; constantly.
- unstimulated — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- unsublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- untimeliness — not timely; not occurring at a suitable time or season; ill-timed or inopportune: An untimely downpour stopped the game.
- valve timing — Valve timing is the exact timing of the opening and closing of the valves in a piston engine.
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- vermiculture — the raising and production of earthworms and their by-products.
- verticillium — a fungus in the Verticillium genus which normally affects plants or insects
- virgin metal — primary metal.
- volunteerism — voluntarism (def 2).
- walter mitty — an ordinary, timid person who is given to adventurous and self-aggrandizing daydreams or secret plans as a way of glamorizing a humdrum life.
- weight limit — a limit on permitted weight
- well-merited — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- west mifflin — a city in W Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
- white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
- william tell — a legendary Swiss patriot forced by the Austrian governor to shoot an apple off his son's head with bow and arrow.
- winter melon — a variety of late-keeping muskmelon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a sweet, edible flesh.
- withholdment — the act of withholding
- zone melting — a process of purifying any of various metals and other materials, as germanium or silicon, by passing it in bar form through an induction coil.