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12-letter words containing m, e, n, t, a, l

  • matrilineage — lineal descent traced through the female line.
  • medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
  • meditational — Of, or pertaining to, meditation.
  • meeting rail — (in a double-hung window) the rail of each sash that meets a rail of the other when the window is closed.
  • mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
  • melanization — the process of melanizing, or the state of being melanized
  • melanoblasts — Plural form of melanoblast.
  • melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
  • melanotropin — MSH.
  • mental block — inability to recall
  • mental image — sth imagined
  • mentally ill — having a mental illness.
  • mercantilism — mercantile practices or spirit; commercialism.
  • mercantilist — Of, pertaining to, or believing in mercantilism.
  • merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
  • mergenthaler — Ottmar [ot-mahr;; German awt-mahr] /ˈɒt mɑr;; German ˈɔt mɑr/ (Show IPA), 1854–99, U.S. inventor of the Linotype, born in Germany.
  • meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
  • mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
  • meta element — (web)   An HTML element, with tag name of "META", expressing metadata about a given HTML document. HTML standards do not require that documents have META elements but if META elements occur, they must be inside the document's HEAD element. The META element can be used to identify properties of a document (e.g., author, expiration date, a list of key words, etc.) and assign values to those properties, typically by specifying a NAME attribute (to name the property) and a CONTENT attribute (to assign a value for that property). The HTML 4 specification doesn't standardise particular NAME properties or CONTENT values; but it is conventional to use a "Description" property to convey a short summary of the document, and a "Keywords" property to provide a list of keywords relevant to the document, as in: META elements with HTTP-EQUIV and CONTENT attributes can simulate the effect of HTTP header lines, as in: Other properties may be application-specific. For example, the Robots Exclusion. standard uses the "robots" property for asserting that the given document should not be indexed by robots, nor should links in it be followed: (2001-02-07)
  • metaanalysis — Alternative spelling of meta-analysis.
  • metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
  • metabolizing — Present participle of metabolize.
  • metalanguage — any language or symbolic system used to discuss, describe, or analyze another language or symbolic system.
  • metallogenic — relating to metallogeny
  • metallophone — any musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of metal bars that may either be struck by hammers operated manually or played with a keyboard.
  • metalorganic — (chemistry) organometallic.
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • meter-candle — lux. Abbreviation: mc.
  • methaqualone — a nonbarbiturate sedative-hypnotic substance, C 1 6 H 1 4 N 2 O, used to induce sleep: also widely used as an illicit drug.
  • metronomical — a mechanical or electrical instrument that makes repeated clicking sounds at an adjustable pace, used for marking rhythm, especially in practicing music.
  • metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
  • middle latin — Medieval Latin
  • militainment — A form of entertainment that features or celebrates the military.
  • militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
  • mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
  • minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
  • misalignment — improperly aligned.
  • misallotment — improper or wrong allotment
  • miscellanist — a person who writes, compiles, or edits miscellanies.
  • misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
  • mistranslate — Translate (something) incorrectly.
  • modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
  • monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • monofilament — Also, monofil [mon-uh-fil] /ˈmɒn əˌfɪl/ (Show IPA). a single, generally large filament of synthetic fiber. Compare multifilament (def 2).
  • monometallic — of or using one metal.
  • monopetalous — gamopetalous.
  • monumentally — resembling a monument; massive or imposing.
  • motoneuronal — of or pertaining to a motoneuron
  • mount carmel — a mountain ridge in NW Israel, extending from the Samarian Hills to the Mediterranean. Highest point: about 540 m (1800 ft)
  • mountainlike — Resembling a mountain or some aspect of one.
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