12-letter words containing m, i, l, a, n, s
- materialness — The state of being material.
- matriclinous — Having mostly maternally-inherited characteristics.
- matriculants — Plural form of matriculant.
- matrimonials — Plural form of matrimonial.
- matroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- megamillions — Plural form of megamillion.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- mercantilism — mercantile practices or spirit; commercialism.
- mercantilist — Of, pertaining to, or believing in mercantilism.
- metaanalysis — Alternative spelling of meta-analysis.
- metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
- microanalyst — One who carries out microanalysis.
- millilampson — /mil'*-lamp"sn/ A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people speak faster. This unit is sometimes used to compare the (sometimes widely disparate) rates at which people can generate ideas and actually emit them in speech. For example, noted computer architect C. Gordon Bell (designer of the PDP-11) is said, with some awe, to think at about 1200 mL but only talk at about 300; he is frequently reduced to fragments of sentences as his mouth tries to keep up with his speeding brain.
- millionaires — Plural form of millionaire.
- miner's dial — dial (def 6).
- mineralogies — Plural form of mineralogy.
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
- minimalising — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
- minimalistic — Pertaining to minimalism.
- mis-analysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- misalignment — improperly aligned.
- misalliances — Plural form of misalliance.
- misallotment — improper or wrong allotment
- misanalyzing — Present participle of misanalyze.
- miscellanies — a miscellaneous collection or group of various or somewhat unrelated items.
- miscellanist — a person who writes, compiles, or edits miscellanies.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
- misleadingly — In a misleading manner.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- mistranslate — Translate (something) incorrectly.
- mobilisation — The act of mobilising.
- monastically — In a monastic manner.
- monosyllabic — having only one syllable, as the word no.
- monsignorial — having the ecclesiastical title of a Monsignor
- moralisation — Standard spelling of moralization.
- mucilaginous — of, relating to, or secreting mucilage.
- multicasting — the act or process of a person or thing that casts.
- multinomials — Plural form of multinomial.
- multitasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- municipalism — the principle or system of home rule by a municipality.
- mutable sign — any of the four astrological signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, that are grouped together because of their placement at the end of the seasons and characterized by the attribute of adaptability to circumstances.
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- nasolacrimal — of or relating to the lacrimal structures and the nose.
- nationalisms — Plural form of nationalism.
- nematologist — One who studies nematology.