12-letter words containing r, e, s, i, d
- linked verse — a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.
- lisle thread — a fine, high-twisted and hard-twisted cotton thread, at least two-ply, used for hosiery, gloves, etc.
- long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- mainstreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of mainstream.
- make friends — get to know people
- 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.
- manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
- marginalised — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- masterminded — Simple past tense and past participle of mastermind.
- materialised — Simple past tense and past participle of materialise.
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- media circus — excessive news coverage
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- mediocrities — the state or quality of being mediocre.
- medium strip — median strip.
- memorialised — Simple past tense and past participle of memorialise.
- merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- methysergide — an ergot alkaloid derivative, C 2 1 H 2 7 N 3 O 2 , used in the prophylaxis and treatment of migraine and cluster headaches.
- microreaders — Plural form of microreader.
- microseconds — Plural form of microsecond.
- middle irish — the Irish language of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
- middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
- midwesterner — Middle West.
- miner's dial — dial (def 6).
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- minor orders — the degree or grade of acolyte, exorcist, lector, or ostiary.
- mis director — Chief Information Officer
- mis-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- misaddressed — Simple past tense and past participle of misaddress.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- 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.
- misdirecting — Present participle of misdirect.
- misdirection — a wrong or incorrect direction, guidance, or instruction.
- misericordia — (legal, obsolete) An amercement.
- misery index — an unofficial indication of a nation's economic health, derived by adding the percentage rate of inflation to the percentage of unemployed workers: With inflation running at 15 percent and unemployment at 8 percent, the misery index is 23 percent.
- misperceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misperceive.
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree