13-letter words containing m, e, l, n
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
- milk sickness — a disease of humans, formerly common in some parts of the Middle West, caused by consuming milk from cattle that have been poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot.
- millennialism — a belief in the millennium.
- millennialist — A believer in millennialism.
- millionairess — a woman who is a millionaire.
- milliroentgen — a unit of radiation equal to one thousandth of a roentgen. Abbreviation: mR, mr.
- mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
- milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
- milton keynes — a residential district in S England, near London, established in the 1960s.
- mind-altering — causing marked changes in patterns of mood and behavior, as a hallucinogenic drug.
- mindblindness — The inability to deduce or make educated guesses about another person's mental state.
- mine disposal — the removal, disarming, or destruction of explosive mines
- mine-clearing — the process of disarming and removing explosive mines from an area
- mineral jelly — a gelatinous product made from petroleum, used to stabilize certain explosives.
- mineral pitch — asphalt.
- mineral water — water containing dissolved mineral salts or gases, especially such water considered healthful to drink.
- mineral wells — a city in N central Texas.
- mineralizable — Capable of being mineralized.
- mineralogical — Relating to mineralogy.
- mingle-mangle — a jumbled or confused mixture; hodgepodge.
- ministerially — In the character or capacity of a minister.
- minor element — Geology. any chemical element found in small quantities in the rocks of the earth's crust. Compare major element.
- minor penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
- minor-leaguer — a member of a minor-league team.
- minstrel show — a once popular type of stage show featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors traditionally comprising two end men, a chorus in blackface, and an interlocutor. Developed in the U.S. in the 19th century, this entertainment portrayed negative racial stereotypes and declined in popularity in the 20th century.
- mirthlessness — The state or condition of being mirthless.
- mis-explained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- miscellaneous — consisting of members or elements of different kinds; of mixed character: a book of miscellaneous essays on American history.
- miscounselled — having bad or incorrect counselling
- mise en place — (in a restaurant kitchen) the preparation of equipment and food before service begins
- misemployment — Wrong or mistaken employment.
- miserableness — The property of being miserable.
- misevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- mistranslated — Simple past tense and past participle of mistranslate.
- mistranslates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mistranslate.
- mobile number — a set of figures identifying the mobile telephone of a particular subscriber, and used in making connections to that telephone
- mobile triton — (processor) (Official name 82430MX) A version of Intel's Triton I processor chip set intended for mobile computers. Mobile Triton consists of one 82437MX and two 82438MX.
- mock pendulum — a false pendulum bob attached to the balances of certain timepieces and visible through a slot in the dial or case.
- modesty panel — a panel across the front of a desk, especially an office desk, designed to conceal the legs of a person seated at it.
- modus tollens — the principle that whenever a conditional statement and the negation of its consequent are given to be true, the negation of its antecedent may be validly inferred, as in if it's Tuesday this must be Belgium and this isn't Belgium so it's not Tuesday
- molding plane — a plane having a blade or a number of blades profiled to form moldings.
- mole fraction — the ratio of the number of moles of a given component of a mixture to the total number of moles of all the components.
- moll flanders — (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders) a novel (1722) by Daniel Defoe.
- mongol empire — an empire founded in the 12th century by Genghis Khan, which reached its greatest territorial extent in the 13th century, encompassing the larger part of Asia and extending westward to the Dnieper River in eastern Europe.
- monkey flower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mimulus, of the figwort family, as M. cardinalis (scarlet monkey flower) having spotted flowers that resemble a face.
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- monkey puzzle — a South American, coniferous timber tree, Araucaria araucana, having candelabralike branches, stiff sharp leaves, and edible nuts.
- monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
- monocotyledon — an angiospermous plant of the class Monocotyledones, characterized by producing seeds with one cotyledon and an endogenous manner of growth.
- monofilaments — Plural form of monofilament.