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12-letter words containing s, o, n, m

  • mesoamerican — Alternative form of Mesoamerican.
  • mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
  • mesocyclones — Plural form of mesocyclone.
  • mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
  • mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
  • mesopotamian — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
  • metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
  • metabonomics — (biochemistry, genetics) metabolomics.
  • metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
  • metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
  • metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
  • metagenomics — (genetics) The study of genomes recovered from environmental samples; especially the differentiation of genomes from multiple organisms or individuals, either in a symbiotic relationship, or at a crime scene.
  • metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
  • microanalyst — One who carries out microanalysis.
  • microinsurer — (insurance) An insurer providing microinsurance, small low-cost policies aimed at underserved groups.
  • micronucleus — the smaller of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans.
  • microphonics — (electronics) The phenomenon where certain components in electronic devices transform mechanical vibrations into an unwanted electrical signal.
  • microphonism — a usually undesirable property of some electronic circuits or components in which mechanical vibrations of a component affect the signal being transmitted through the circuit.
  • microseconds — Plural form of microsecond.
  • microsegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by juncture.
  • microstation — (application)   A full-featured 2-D and 3-D CAD program for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and Unix workstations from Bentley Systems, Inc. Created in 1984, MicroStation is a high-end package used worldwide in environments where many designers work on large, complex projects. MicroStation Modeler is a superset of MicroStation that provides solid modelling, and MasterPiece is MicroStation's rendering and animation program.
  • microsurgeon — a person who performs microsurgery
  • mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
  • migrationist — a person who considers it important for species of animals and plants to migrate for the purposes of distribution and evolution
  • 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.
  • mineralogies — Plural form of mineralogy.
  • mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
  • minimisation — Alternative spelling of minimization.
  • ministration — the act of ministering care, aid, religious service, etc.
  • minor orders — the degree or grade of acolyte, exorcist, lector, or ostiary.
  • mis-position — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
  • misallotment — improper or wrong allotment
  • misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
  • misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  • miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
  • misconceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misconceive.
  • misconceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misconceive.
  • misconducted — Simple past tense and past participle of misconduct.
  • misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
  • misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
  • 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.
  • misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
  • misconstruct — To construct wrongly.
  • misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
  • misconstrues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misconstrue.
  • miscreations — Plural form of miscreation.
  • misdemeanors — Plural form of misdemeanor.
  • misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
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