12-letter words containing m, e, n, s, t
- memorisation — Alternative spelling of memorization.
- menai strait — a strait between Anglesey Island and the mainland of NW Wales. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- meniscectomy — the surgical excision of a meniscus, as of the knee joint.
- menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
- menstruation — the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus, occurring approximately monthly from puberty to menopause in nonpregnant women and females of other primate species.
- mercantilism — mercantile practices or spirit; commercialism.
- mercantilist — Of, pertaining to, or believing in mercantilism.
- mesenteritis — inflammation of the mesentery.
- mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
- mesopotamian — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
- message unit — a measure of the duration of and distance covered by local telephone calls, used by telephone companies as a basis for assessing service charges.
- metaanalysis — Alternative spelling of meta-analysis.
- metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
- metabonomics — (biochemistry, genetics) metabolomics.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- metagenomics — (genetics) The study of genomes recovered from environmental samples; especially the differentiation of genomes from multiple organisms or individuals, either in a symbiotic relationship, or at a crime scene.
- metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- metasediment — (petrology) A metamorphosed sedimentary rock.
- metatherians — Plural form of metatherian.
- microsegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by juncture.
- mid-sentence — in the middle of a sentence or utterance
- midwesterner — Middle West.
- mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- miniaturizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miniaturize.
- minicassette — a small cassette enclosing a length of audiotape for use with a pocket-size tape recorder, especially one used for dictating.
- minidiskette — Alternative spelling of mini-diskette.
- ministership — (government) The position held by a minister.
- ministrative — Serving to aid; ministering.
- minstrelsies — Plural form of minstrelsy.
- minute steak — a thin slice of beefsteak that is prepared by sautéeing quickly on each side.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- mis-shipment — a quantity of freight or cargo shipped at one time.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misalignment — improperly aligned.
- misallotment — improper or wrong allotment
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
- miscegenetic — Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
- miscellanist — a person who writes, compiles, or edits miscellanies.
- misconducted — Simple past tense and past participle of misconduct.
- misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- misconnected — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- misconstrues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misconstrue.