12-letter words containing m, e, w, i
- middle white — a breed of medium-sized white pig commonly kept for pork and bacon, and for fattening
- middlebrowed — midway between highbrow and lowbrow
- middleweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 160 pounds (72.5 kg).
- midwest city — a city in central Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City.
- midwesterner — Middle West.
- midwife toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans (family Discoglossidae), noted for its unusual breeding habits, in which mating occurs on land and the male broods the egg strings by wrapping them around his legs.
- militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
- mine-sweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
- mineral wool — a woollike material for heat and sound insulation, made by blowing steam or air through molten slag or rock.
- minesweepers — Plural form of minesweeper.
- minesweeping — (nautical) The detection and safe disposal of mines.
- minimum wage — lowest hourly earnings permitted by law
- minimum-wage — of or relating to a minimum wage: minimum-wage demands.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- money cowrie — the highly polished, usually brightly colored shell of a marine gastropod of the genus Cypraea, as that of C. moneta (money cowrie) used as money in certain parts of Asia and Africa, or that of C. tigris, used for ornament.
- motive power — any power used to impart motion; any source of mechanical energy.
- mountain dew — moonshine; whisky that has been illegally distilled
- multitowered — comprising several towers
- multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
- narrowminded — Alternative spelling of narrow-minded.
- new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- newly minted — new, recently created
- newsmagazine — a periodical specializing in reports and commentaries on current events, usually issued weekly.
- newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
- overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- primary wave — Seismology. P wave.
- raw material — material before being processed or manufactured into a final form.
- reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
- sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
- seismic wave — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- siamese twin — (not in technical use) conjoined twin.
- smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
- snowy mespil — a N American tree, Amelanchier Lamarckii, that produces small white flowers in spring
- stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
- swedish mile — a unit of length used in Sweden, equal to 10 kilometres
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- swimmingness — tearfulness
- swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
- team up with — join forces with
- time-wasting — causing someone to spend time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit
- town meeting — a general meeting of the inhabitants of a town.
- viewing time — the amount of time spent watching television, esp with regard to a particular region
- waiting game — a stratagem in which action on a matter is reserved for or postponed to a later time, allowing one to wait for a more advantageous time to act or to see what develops in the meantime.
- waking dream — an experience you have while you are awake that feels similar to dreaming
- walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.