12-letter words containing s, i, m, l, n
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- marginal sea — water that lies alongside a state, falls under its authority, and extends about 3½ statute miles (6 kilometers) from the coast.
- marginalised — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- marginalises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marginalise.
- marginalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marginalize.
- marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- martinsville — a city in S Virginia.
- masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
- mass mailing — sending a bulk e-mail
- masterliness — The quality of being masterly.
- materialness — The state of being material.
- matriclinous — Having mostly maternally-inherited characteristics.
- matriculants — Plural form of matriculant.
- matrimonials — Plural form of matrimonial.
- matroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- megamillions — Plural form of megamillion.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- mercantilism — mercantile practices or spirit; commercialism.
- mercantilist — Of, pertaining to, or believing in mercantilism.
- mercifulness — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- metaanalysis — Alternative spelling of meta-analysis.
- metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
- microanalyst — One who carries out microanalysis.
- micronucleus — the smaller of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans.
- middlescence — the middle-age period of life, especially when considered a difficult time of self-doubt and readjustment.
- middlingness — Quality of being middling.
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- millihenries — Plural form of millihenry.
- millilampson — /mil'*-lamp"sn/ A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people speak faster. This unit is sometimes used to compare the (sometimes widely disparate) rates at which people can generate ideas and actually emit them in speech. For example, noted computer architect C. Gordon Bell (designer of the PDP-11) is said, with some awe, to think at about 1200 mL but only talk at about 300; he is frequently reduced to fragments of sentences as his mouth tries to keep up with his speeding brain.
- millionaires — Plural form of millionaire.
- milliseconds — Plural form of millisecond.
- mindlessness — without intelligence; senseless: a mindless creature.
- miner's dial — dial (def 6).
- mineralogies — Plural form of mineralogy.
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
- minimalising — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
- minimalistic — Pertaining to minimalism.
- minstrelsies — Plural form of minstrelsy.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- mis-analysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- misalignment — improperly aligned.
- misalliances — Plural form of misalliance.
- misallotment — improper or wrong allotment
- misanalyzing — Present participle of misanalyze.
- misbelieving — Present participle of misbelieve.
- miscellanies — a miscellaneous collection or group of various or somewhat unrelated items.
- miscellanist — a person who writes, compiles, or edits miscellanies.