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12-letter words containing m, o, r, d, e, n

  • grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
  • haemosiderin — Alternative form of hemosiderin.
  • hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
  • home and dry — If you say that someone is, in British English home and dry, or in American English home free, you mean that they have been successful or that they are certain to be successful.
  • ill-informed — lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.
  • immoderation — lack of moderation.
  • impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
  • impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
  • imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
  • improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
  • indemnitors' — a person or company that gives indemnity.
  • informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
  • jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • lunar module — the portion of the Apollo spacecraft in which two astronauts landed on the moon's surface and then returned to the orbiting command module. Abbreviation: LM.
  • machine word — word (def 10).
  • machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • maderization — the process whereby wine is heated and oxidized, resulting in a darker colour and an altered taste
  • make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
  • malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
  • maltodextrin — a compound of dextrin and maltose, used as a food additive and in some health and beauty products.
  • man-tailored — (of women's clothing) tailored in the general style and with the details of men's clothing. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
  • mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
  • māori warden — a person appointed to exercise advisory and minor disciplinary powers in Māori communities
  • media person — a person who works in the mass media
  • meridionally — In a meridional manner.
  • microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
  • micromanaged — Simple past tense and past participle of micromanage.
  • microprinted — printed in microprint
  • microseconds — Plural form of microsecond.
  • midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
  • minirecorder — a small tape recorder, using minicassettes.
  • minor orders — the degree or grade of acolyte, exorcist, lector, or ostiary.
  • misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
  • misdemeanors — Plural form of misdemeanor.
  • misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
  • misdirection — a wrong or incorrect direction, guidance, or instruction.
  • moderateness — The quality of being moderate.
  • modern dance — a form of contemporary theatrical and concert dance employing a special technique for developing the use of the entire body in movements expressive of abstract ideas.
  • modern greek — the Greek language since c1500. Abbreviation: ModGk.
  • modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
  • mohenjo-daro — an archaeological site in Pakistan, near the Indus River: six successive ancient cities were built here.
  • mond process — a process for obtaining nickel by heating the ore in carbon monoxide to produce nickel carbonyl vapour, which is then decomposed at a higher temperature to yield the metal
  • money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
  • moneylenders — Plural form of moneylender.
  • monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
  • monochloride — a chloride containing one atom of chlorine with one atom of another element or a group.
  • monodisperse — (of a colloid) Having particles of (approximately) the same size.
  • monofluoride — (chemistry) any fluoride containing a single fluorine atom in each molecule.
  • monohydrates — Plural form of monohydrate.
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