10-letter words containing m, i, e, d
- microblade — bladelet.
- microdrive — a type of memory card that has moving parts and can store large amounts of data
- microdrone — a small remote-controlled unmanned flying object
- micronised — Simple past tense and past participle of micronise.
- micronized — Simple past tense and past participle of micronize.
- microsized — Greatly reduced in size.
- microtrend — A very small, specific trend or vogue.
- microwaved — Simple past tense and past participle of microwave.
- micturated — Simple past tense and past participle of micturate.
- mid-cities — the extensive suburban area developed between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.
- mid-course — the middle of a course.
- mid-engine — of or relating to a configuration in which the engine is located behind the driver and between the front and rear wheels: midengine sports car; midengine design.
- mid-mashie — a club with an iron head the face of which has more slope than a midiron but less slope than a mashie iron.
- mid-season — the middle of a season of the year or of a sporting season
- mid-wicket — the fielding position on the on side, approximately midway between square leg and mid-on
- midamerica — Middle America (def 2).
- midcentury — Occurring around the center or middle of the century.
- midchannel — (geography) In the middle of a channel.
- middelburg — a province in the SW Netherlands, consisting largely of islands. 1041 sq. mi. (2695 sq. km). Capital: Middelburg.
- middelskot — (in South Africa) an intermediate payment to a farmers' cooperative for a crop or wool clip
- middle age — the period of human life between youth and old age, sometimes considered as the years between 45 and 65 or thereabout.
- middle ear — the middle portion of the ear, consisting of the tympanic membrane and an air-filled chamber lined with mucous membrane, that contains the malleus, incus, and stapes. Compare ear1 (def 1).
- middlebrow — a person of conventional tastes and interests in matters of culture; a moderately cultivated person.
- middlegame — (board games) The period in a game between the opening and endgame.
- middlehand — the player on the dealer's right in a game with three players. Compare endhand, forehand (def 7).
- middlemost — midmost.
- middletone — halftone (def 1).
- middletown — a township in E New Jersey.
- middleware — Software that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database and applications, especially on a network.
- midfielder — a player active in the midfield, as in soccer, often playing both offensively and defensively.
- midsection — the middle section or part of anything.
- midsegment — a line joining the midpoints of two sides of a triangle.
- midsession — The middle of a session, particularly.
- midshipmen — Plural form of midshipman.
- midwestern — Also, Midwestern. Middle Western.
- mignardise — A bite-sized dessert sometimes served at the end of a meal.
- mild steel — low-carbon steel, containing no more than 0.25 percent carbon.
- mildewcide — a chemical for destroying mildew.
- milk adder — any of numerous, usually brightly marked king snakes of the subspecies Lampropeltis triangulum (doliata), of North America.
- millerbird — a rare, small, gray-brown, thin-billed warbler, Acrocephalus familiaris, occurring only on the Hawaiian islet of Nihoa: the subspecies that inhabited the islet of Laysan is now extinct.
- millipedes — Plural form of millipede.
- minauderie — affectionate behaviour or flirtation
- minaudiere — a small, sometimes jeweled case for a woman's cosmetics or other personal objects, often carried as a handbag.
- mind games — actions or statements intended to undermine or mislead someone else, often to gain advantage for oneself
- mind mouse — (hardware) A pointing device (unlike a mouse in design, but serving the same purpose) which works via sensors in contact with the user's skin. The sensors are built into a plastic base which fits on one finger and which is similar in shape to a finger cast. The principle of operation is presumably myoelectric, not psionic, contrary to what the name implies. As of the time of writing (1996), mind mice are not accurate enough to be anything but novelties.
- mind's eye — the hypothetical site of visual recollection or imagination: In her mind's eye she saw the city as it had been in Caesar's time.
- mindblower — a hallucinogenic drug.
- mindedness — The state of being minded in a particular way (as in 'narrow-mindedness', 'absent-mindedness').
- mindlessly — without intelligence; senseless: a mindless creature.
- mindreader — Alternative form of mind-reader.