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12-letter words containing m, l, n

  • microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
  • microtonally — In a microtonal manner.
  • mid-atlantic — using, manifesting, or characterized by a mixture of American and British behavior or speech.
  • middle congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
  • middle latin — Medieval Latin
  • middle plane — middle distance (def 1).
  • middlescence — the middle-age period of life, especially when considered a difficult time of self-doubt and readjustment.
  • middlingness — Quality of being middling.
  • militainment — A form of entertainment that features or celebrates the military.
  • militarizing — Present participle of militarize.
  • militiawoman — A female member of a militia.
  • militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
  • milk pudding — a hot or cold pudding made by boiling or baking milk with a grain, esp rice
  • milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
  • milking time — the time at which a cow is milked
  • millennially — In millennial terms.
  • miller index — one of three integers giving the orientation and position of the face of a crystal in terms of the reciprocals, in lowest terms, of the intercepts of the face with each axis of the crystal.
  • millihenries — Plural form of millihenry.
  • 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.
  • millionnaire — a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more in some unit of currency, as dollars.
  • milliseconds — Plural form of millisecond.
  • milman parry — Milman, 1902–35, U.S. classical scholar and philologist.
  • milne method — a numerical method, involving Simpson's rule, for solving a linear differential equation.
  • mind-blowing — overwhelming; astounding: Spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience.
  • mindboggling — That causes the mind to boggle; that is beyond one's ability to understand or figure out; bewildering; mystifying.
  • mindlessness — without intelligence; senseless: a mindless creature.
  • miner's dial — dial (def 6).
  • mineral wool — a woollike material for heat and sound insulation, made by blowing steam or air through molten slag or rock.
  • mineralizing — Present participle of mineralize.
  • mineralogies — Plural form of mineralogy.
  • mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
  • mineralogize — (intransitive) To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
  • minimal pair — a pair of words, as pin and bin, or bet and bed, differing only by one sound in the same position in each word, especially when such a pair is taken as evidence for the existence of a phonemic contrast between the two sounds.
  • minimalising — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
  • minimalistic — Pertaining to minimalism.
  • minimalizing — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
  • minor league — professional non-premier sports association
  • minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
  • minor-league — of or relating to a minor league.
  • minstrelsies — Plural form of minstrelsy.
  • mirror plant — a shrub, Coprosma repens, of the madder family, native to New Zealand and cultivated in warm regions, having glossy, often variegated leaves.
  • mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
  • 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.
  • misbelieving — Present participle of misbelieve.
  • miscellanies — a miscellaneous collection or group of various or somewhat unrelated items.
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