12-letter words containing m, l, i, t
- misalignment — improperly aligned.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misallocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misallocate.
- misallotment — improper or wrong allotment
- miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- miscellanist — a person who writes, compiles, or edits miscellanies.
- misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
- miserabilist — One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- misportrayal — the act of portraying.
- misrecollect — to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
- missiologist — One who studies missiology.
- mistranslate — Translate (something) incorrectly.
- mistressless — having no mistress
- mistrustless — having no distrust or misgiving
- mitrailleuse — a machine gun.
- mitral valve — the valve between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart, consisting of two triangular flaps of tissue, that prevents the blood from flowing back into the atrium.
- mitteleuropa — Central Europe.
- mobilisation — The act of mobilising.
- mobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
- 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.
- molecularity — the number of molecules or atoms that participate in an elementary process.
- molinologist — One who studies molinology.
- monastically — In a monastic manner.
- 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.
- monofilament — Also, monofil [mon-uh-fil] /ˈmɒn əˌfɪl/ (Show IPA). a single, generally large filament of synthetic fiber. Compare multifilament (def 2).
- monoglottism — Condition of being able to speak only a single language.
- monometallic — of or using one metal.
- monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
- monopolistic — a person who has a monopoly.
- monothalamic — having a sole cavity or compartment
- monotriglyph — (in the Doric order) any intercolumniation having one whole triglyph.
- monticellite — a mineral, silicate of magnesium and calcium, CaMgSiO 4 , belonging to the olivine group and often occurring in contact metamorphosed limestones.
- moonlighting — the light of the moon.
- moralisation — Standard spelling of moralization.
- moralization — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- more like it — closer to being what is wanted
- morphologist — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
- mortice lock — A mortice lock is a type of lock which fits into a hole cut into the edge of a door rather than being fixed to one side of it.
- mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
- 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.
- mosquito fly — dragonfly (def 1).
- moth mullein — a weedy, European mullein, Verbascum blattaria, of the figwort family, having lance-shaped leaves and loose spikes of white or yellow flowers.
- motherliness — The property of being motherly.
- motionlessly — In a motionless manner; without moving.
- motivational — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.