12-letter words containing r, e, l, i, c
- miracle mile — an extended area of fashionable or expensive shops, restaurants, etc., usually along an urban or suburban thoroughfare.
- miracle play — a medieval dramatic form dealing with religious subjects such as Biblical stories or saints' lives, usually presented in a series or cycle by the craft guilds.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- misrecollect — to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
- mole cricket — any of several burrowing crickets of the family Gryllotalpidae that have fossorial forelegs and that feed on the roots of plants.
- molecularity — the number of molecules or atoms that participate in an elementary process.
- monochloride — a chloride containing one atom of chlorine with one atom of another element or a group.
- mortice lock — A mortice lock is a type of lock which fits into a hole cut into the edge of a door rather than being fixed to one side of it.
- mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
- motorbicycle — a small, lightweight motorcycle.
- muir glacier — a glacier in SE Alaska, flowing SE from Mt. Fairweather into Glacier Bay. About 350 sq. mi. (905 sq. km).
- multicentral — having or dependent on several centres; multicentre
- multicentred — Having multiple centres.
- multicentric — pertaining to or situated at the center; central.
- multicolored — of several or many colors.
- multiculture — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- multifurcate — forked; branching.
- multinuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- multipicture — having or involving several pictures
- multiservice — involving two or more of the armed services
- multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
- muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
- muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
- muscle shirt — Slang. a T-shirt having short sleeves or no sleeves.
- music locker — Digital Technology. an online service that supports cloud-based storage of digital music files so as to allow users to stream or download their personal music collections for playback on any compatible device: I uploaded all my CDs to a music locker, and now I can access the music from my laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- myrmecophile — An invertebrate or plant that has a symbiotic relationship with ants, such as being tended and protected by ants or living inside an ants' nest.
- myrmecophily — symbiosis with ants
- nanoparticle — a microscopic particle of matter that is measured on the nanoscale, usually one that measures less than 100 nanometers.
- necrological — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- necrophiliac — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
- necropolises — Plural form of necropolis.
- neorealistic — Of or pertaining to neorealism.
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- neuroleptics — Plural form of neuroleptic.
- neurological — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- neurotically — of, relating to, or characteristic of neurosis.
- neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
- neutralistic — Employing or relating to neutralism.
- neutrophilic — (of a cell or its contents) readily stained only by neutral dyes.
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- non-clerical — of, pertaining to, appropriate for, or assigned to an office clerk or clerks: a clerical job.
- non-complier — a person, group, etc., that complies.
- non-credible — capable of being believed; believable: a credible statement.
- non-electric — pertaining to, derived from, produced by, or involving electricity: an electric shock.
- non-metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.