12-letter words containing s, o, m, e, d
- microreaders — Plural form of microreader.
- microseconds — Plural form of microsecond.
- 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.
- minor orders — the degree or grade of acolyte, exorcist, lector, or ostiary.
- mis director — Chief Information Officer
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misconceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misconceive.
- misconducted — Simple past tense and past participle of misconduct.
- misconnected — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
- 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.
- misdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of misdiagnose.
- misdiagnoses — to make an incorrect diagnosis.
- misdirection — a wrong or incorrect direction, guidance, or instruction.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- misericordia — (legal, obsolete) An amercement.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- moderateness — The quality of being moderate.
- modus ponens — the principle that whenever a conditional statement and its antecedent are given to be true its consequent may be validly inferred, as in if it's Tuesday this must be Belgium and it's Tuesday so this must be Belgium
- molluscicide — A substance that kills molluscs.
- 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.
- mond process — a process for obtaining nickel by heating the ore in carbon monoxide to produce nickel carbonyl vapour, which is then decomposed at a higher temperature to yield the metal
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- moneylenders — Plural form of moneylender.
- monodisperse — (of a colloid) Having particles of (approximately) the same size.
- monohydrates — Plural form of monohydrate.
- morris dance — a rural folk dance of north English origin, performed in costume traditionally by men who originally represented characters of the Robin Hood legend, especially in May Day festivities.
- mother's day — a day, usually the second Sunday in May, set aside in honor of mothers.
- motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
- mount desert — island off the S coast of Me.: resort: c. 100 sq mi (259 sq km)
- mountainside — The sloping surface of a mountain.
- mouse around — To explore public portions of a large system, especially a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- mucopeptides — Plural form of mucopeptide.
- multistoried — Multi-storey.
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- myxedematous — a condition characterized by thickening of the skin, blunting of the senses and intellect, and labored speech, associated with hypothyroidism.
- 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.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- non-domestic — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- nonsegmented — one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.