12-letter words containing m, i, l, o, e
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
- millionaires — Plural form of millionaire.
- millionnaire — a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more in some unit of currency, as dollars.
- milliseconds — Plural form of millisecond.
- milne method — a numerical method, involving Simpson's rule, for solving a linear differential equation.
- milquetoasts — Plural form of milquetoast.
- milquetoasty — Meek, timid.
- mineral wool — a woollike material for heat and sound insulation, made by blowing steam or air through molten slag or rock.
- mineralogies — Plural form of mineralogy.
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
- mineralogize — (intransitive) To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
- minor league — professional non-premier sports association
- minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
- minor-league — of or relating to a minor league.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misallocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misallocate.
- misallotment — improper or wrong allotment
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- misrecollect — to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
- missiologies — Plural form of missiology.
- mitteleuropa — Central Europe.
- mnemonically — assisting or intended to assist the memory.
- mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
- mohammed ali — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- moistureless — Devoid of moisture.
- mole cricket — any of several burrowing crickets of the family Gryllotalpidae that have fossorial forelegs and that feed on the roots of plants.
- mole mapping — the procedure of using a digital camera to record the positions and appearances of moles on a person's body so that regular checks will detect any changes that might lead to skin cancer
- molecularity — the number of molecules or atoms that participate in an elementary process.
- molluscicide — A substance that kills molluscs.
- molly miller — a blenny, Scartella cristata, of Atlantic seas.
- molybdenosis — a disease of ruminants, especially cattle, caused by dietary intake of excessive molybdenum with resultant copper deficiency, characterized by persistent diarrhea and, especially around the eyes, a fading of coat pigment.
- moneylending — The action of lending money.
- mongrelizing — Present participle of mongrelize.
- monkey climb — a wrestling throw in which a contestant seizes his or her opponent's arms or neck, places his feet on the opponent's stomach, and falls backwards, straightening the legs and throwing the opponent over his or her head
- 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.
- monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
- monochloride — a chloride containing one atom of chlorine with one atom of another element or a group.
- monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
- monofilament — Also, monofil [mon-uh-fil] /ˈmɒn əˌfɪl/ (Show IPA). a single, generally large filament of synthetic fiber. Compare multifilament (def 2).
- monofluoride — (chemistry) any fluoride containing a single fluorine atom in each molecule.
- monometallic — of or using one metal.
- monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
- monopolizers — Plural form of monopolizer.
- monticellite — a mineral, silicate of magnesium and calcium, CaMgSiO 4 , belonging to the olivine group and often occurring in contact metamorphosed limestones.
- more in line — (of an internal-combustion engine) having the cylinders ranged side by side in one or more rows along the crankshaft.
- more like it — closer to being what is wanted
- morning line — a list of entries for a horse race with the probable betting odds as estimated by a bookmaker or track handicapper, usually issued the morning of the race, before wagering begins.
- morphologies — Plural form of morphology.