12-letter words containing m, e, t, s
- misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- misorientate — misorient.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- misrecollect — to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
- misrepresent — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
- miss the bus — lose opportunity
- miss the cut — to achieve a greater score after the first two rounds of a strokeplay tournament than that required to play in the remaining two rounds
- misstatement — to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
- mistakenness — The state or condition of being mistaken.
- mistranslate — Translate (something) incorrectly.
- mistreatment — to treat badly or abusively.
- mistressless — having no mistress
- mistrustless — having no distrust or misgiving
- misventurous — characterized by a mishap
- miter square — an instrument for laying out miter joints, consisting of two straightedges joined at a 45° angle.
- mitrailleuse — a machine gun.
- mitre square — a tool with two blades that are at a fixed angle to one another, used to bevel a mitre joint
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
- moderateness — The quality of being moderate.
- moeso-gothic — of the Moeso-Goths, their extinct East Germanic language, or their culture
- moistureless — Devoid of moisture.
- moisturizers — Plural form of moisturizer.
- momentaneous — brief or continuing for a short time only
- monetisation — Alternative spelling of monetization.
- monocultures — Plural form of monoculture.
- monohydrates — Plural form of monohydrate.
- monopetalous — gamopetalous.
- monophysites — Plural form of monophysite.
- monostearate — a stearate containing one stearoyl group.
- monoterpenes — Plural form of monoterpene.
- monotheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to monotheism, the doctrine that there is only one God: a monotheistic religion.
- monsterizing — Present participle of monsterize.
- monte cristo — a sandwich containing slices of ham, chicken, and Swiss cheese, dipped in beaten egg and fried until brown.
- montebrasite — a mineral, lithium aluminum hydroxyl phosphate, LiAlPO 4 (OH), isomorphous with amblygonite, used as an ore of lithium.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- montessorian — a system for teaching young children, in which the fundamental aim is self-motivated education by the children themselves, as they are encouraged to move freely through individualized instruction and physical exercises, accompanied by special emphasis on the training of the senses and the early development of reading and writing skills.
- montparnasse — a district in S Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine: noted for its cafés and the artists and writers who have frequented and lived in the area.
- moonstricken — Moonstruck.
- morro castle — a historic fort at the entrance to the harbor of Havana, Cuba.
- mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
- mosbolletjie — (South Africa) Dough leavened with the must of grapes used for making rusks.
- moses basket — wicker bed for a baby
- mosquito net — a screen, curtain, or canopy of net, gauze, or the like, for keeping out mosquitoes.
- mother goose — the fictitious author of a collection of nursery rhymes first published in London (about 1760) under the title of Mother Goose's Melody.
- mother house — a convent housing a mother superior of a community of nuns.
- mother's boy — mama's boy.
- mother's day — a day, usually the second Sunday in May, set aside in honor of mothers.
- mother-seton — Saint Elizabeth Ann (Bayley) ("Mother Seton") 1774–1821, U.S. educator, social-welfare reformer, and religious leader: first native-born American to be canonized (1975).