12-letter words containing m, u, t, s
- middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
- midlatitudes — Areas lying between 35 and 55 (or more broadly, between 30 and 60) degrees north or south of the equator.
- midnight sun — the sun visible at midnight in mid-summer in arctic and antarctic regions.
- milquetoasts — Plural form of milquetoast.
- milquetoasty — Meek, timid.
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- miniaturists — Plural form of miniaturist.
- miniaturizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miniaturize.
- minute steak — a thin slice of beefsteak that is prepared by sautéeing quickly on each side.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- mis-adjusted — to change (something) so that it fits, corresponds, or conforms; adapt; accommodate: to adjust expenses to income.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
- misconducted — Simple past tense and past participle of misconduct.
- misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
- misconstruct — To construct wrongly.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- misconstrues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misconstrue.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- misjudgement — Alternative form of misjudgment.
- misjudgments — Plural form of misjudgment.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- misquotation — the act of misquoting.
- miss the bus — lose opportunity
- miss the cut — to achieve a greater score after the first two rounds of a strokeplay tournament than that required to play in the remaining two rounds
- missummation — an incorrect summation
- mistrustless — having no distrust or misgiving
- misventurous — characterized by a mishap
- miter square — an instrument for laying out miter joints, consisting of two straightedges joined at a 45° angle.
- mitrailleuse — a machine gun.
- mitre square — a tool with two blades that are at a fixed angle to one another, used to bevel a mitre joint
- mobius strip — a continuous, one-sided surface formed by twisting one end of a rectangular strip through 180° about the longitudinal axis of the strip and attaching this end to the other.
- moistureless — Devoid of moisture.
- moisturising — Present participle of moisturise.
- moisturizers — Plural form of moisturizer.
- moisturizing — Present participle of moisturize.
- momentaneous — brief or continuing for a short time only
- monocultures — Plural form of monoculture.
- monopetalous — gamopetalous.
- monostichous — (of parts) forming one row
- monotonously — lacking in variety; tediously unvarying: the monotonous flat scenery.
- monotrichous — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- mosquito fly — dragonfly (def 1).
- mosquito net — a screen, curtain, or canopy of net, gauze, or the like, for keeping out mosquitoes.
- mosquitofish — any of several fishes that feed on mosquito larvae, as Gambusia affinis, found in the southeastern U.S., now introduced into other parts of the world for mosquito control.