12-letter words containing o, d, e, l
- medal-holder — a person who has won a medal
- meddlesomely — In a meddlesome manner.
- medico-legal — pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine.
- meditational — Of, or pertaining to, meditation.
- megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
- mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
- melodramatic — of, like, or befitting melodrama.
- memorial day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
- memorialised — Simple past tense and past participle of memorialise.
- memorialized — (US) Simple past tense and past participle of memorialize.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- meridionally — In a meridional manner.
- methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- middle congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- middle voice — the voice or form used when the subject of a verb performs an action on itself (often the reflexive form)
- middle youth — the period of life between about 30 and 50
- middlebrowed — midway between highbrow and lowbrow
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- milliseconds — Plural form of millisecond.
- milne method — a numerical method, involving Simpson's rule, for solving a linear differential equation.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- model theory — the branch of logic that deals with the properties of models; the semantic study of formal systems
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
- mohammed ali — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- molded depth — the depth of a vessel at the broadest transverse section from the top of the keel to the upper side of the main deck beam at the side.
- molluscicide — A substance that kills molluscs.
- mollycoddled — Simple past tense and past participle of mollycoddle.
- mollycoddler — One who mollycoddles.
- mollycoddles — Plural form of mollycoddle.
- molybdenosis — a disease of ruminants, especially cattle, caused by dietary intake of excessive molybdenum with resultant copper deficiency, characterized by persistent diarrhea and, especially around the eyes, a fading of coat pigment.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- moneylenders — Plural form of moneylender.
- moneylending — The action of lending money.
- monkey gland — the testicle of an ape or monkey, said to have a revitalizing effect on humans when administered by grafting or adding the essence to the bloodstream
- monochloride — a chloride containing one atom of chlorine with one atom of another element or a group.
- monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
- monofluoride — (chemistry) any fluoride containing a single fluorine atom in each molecule.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- muddle along — If you muddle along, you live or exist without a proper plan or purpose in your life.
- multi-voiced — having a voice of a specified kind (usually used in combination): shrill-voiced.
- multicolored — of several or many colors.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- multistoried — Multi-storey.
- multitowered — comprising several towers
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- muzzleloader — a firearm that is loaded through the muzzle.
- mythologized — Simple past tense and past participle of mythologize.
- nasal demons — Recognised shorthand on the Usenet group comp.std.c for any unexpected behaviour of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct. During a discussion on that group in early 1992, a regular remarked "When the compiler encounters [a given undefined construct] it is legal for it to make demons fly out of your nose" (the implication is that the compiler may choose any arbitrarily bizarre way to interpret the code without violating the ANSI C standard). Someone else followed up with a reference to "nasal demons", which quickly became established.