12-letter words containing n, i, t, r, d
- lion-hearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- lodging turn — a period of work or duty, esp among railway workers, which involves sleeping away from home
- machairodont — having sabre-like teeth; sabre-toothed
- maderization — the process whereby wine is heated and oxidized, resulting in a darker colour and an altered taste
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- mainstreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of mainstream.
- malimprinted — (of an animal or person) suffering from a defect in the behavioural process of imprinting, resulting in attraction to members of other species, fetishism, etc
- 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).
- masterminded — Simple past tense and past participle of mastermind.
- matricentred — Matricentric.
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- meat grinder — machine: minces meat
- media center — a library, usually in school, that contains and encourages the use of audiovisual media and associated equipment as well as books, periodicals, and the like.
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- microprinted — printed in microprint
- midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
- midwesterner — Middle West.
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- miniaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturize.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misandristic — Exhibiting misandry; man-hating.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- misdirecting — Present participle of misdirect.
- misdirection — a wrong or incorrect direction, guidance, or instruction.
- mitochondria — an organelle in the cytoplasm of cells that functions in energy production.
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
- monodramatic — Relating to a monodrama.
- motor-driven — propelled or made to function by means of a motor
- motor-minded — disposed to perceive one's environment in terms of mechanical or muscular activity.
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- multicentred — Having multiple centres.
- multinodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- nand circuit — Computers. a circuit that is energized when any one of its inputs is not energized.
- near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- neuropeptide — any of various short-chain peptides, as endorphins, that function as neuromodulators in the nervous system and as hormones in the endocrine system.
- night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
- night editor — an editor responsible for getting a morning newspaper to press, for the night operations of a wire service, or the like.
- night lizard — any of several nocturnal lizards of the family Xantusiidae, of southwestern North America and Cuba, which bear live young.
- nightdresses — Plural form of nightdress.
- ninety-third — next after the ninety-second; being the ordinal number for 93.
- ninth-grader — a student in their ninth year at school
- nitric oxide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble gas, NO, formed by the action of dilute nitric acid on copper, and by the direct combination of atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen at the high temperatures of an electric arc: an intermediate in the manufacture of nitric acid.
- nitrogenized — Treated with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound.
- nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.
- non-industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.