12-letter words containing t, i, m, n
- matrilineage — lineal descent traced through the female line.
- matrimonials — Plural form of matrimonial.
- matroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- maturational — the act or process of maturating.
- maximisation — Alternative spelling of maximization.
- maximization — to increase to the greatest possible amount or degree: to look for ways of maximizing profit.
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- meat grinder — machine: minces meat
- meat packing — the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.
- mechatronics — The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering for the study of automata from an engineering perspective and the control of advanced hybrid systems.
- media center — a library, usually in school, that contains and encourages the use of audiovisual media and associated equipment as well as books, periodicals, and the like.
- median point — centroid (def 2).
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
- meditational — Of, or pertaining to, meditation.
- meeting post — a timber with a chamfer at the outer edge of a lock gate that fits against the meeting post of another lock gate.
- meeting rail — (in a double-hung window) the rail of each sash that meets a rail of the other when the window is closed.
- meeting room — venue where discussions are held
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- melanization — the process of melanizing, or the state of being melanized
- melanotropin — MSH.
- melliloquent — Speaking sweetly or harmoniously.
- memento mori — (italics) Latin. remember that you must die.
- memorisation — Alternative spelling of memorization.
- memorization — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
- menai strait — a strait between Anglesey Island and the mainland of NW Wales. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- meniscectomy — the surgical excision of a meniscus, as of the knee joint.
- menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
- menstruation — the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus, occurring approximately monthly from puberty to menopause in nonpregnant women and females of other primate species.
- mental image — sth imagined
- mentally ill — having a mental illness.
- mercantilism — mercantile practices or spirit; commercialism.
- mercantilist — Of, pertaining to, or believing in mercantilism.
- mesenteritis — inflammation of the mesentery.
- mesopotamian — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
- message unit — a measure of the duration of and distance covered by local telephone calls, used by telephone companies as a basis for assessing service charges.
- metaanalysis — Alternative spelling of meta-analysis.
- metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
- metabolizing — Present participle of metabolize.
- metabonomics — (biochemistry, genetics) metabolomics.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- metacinnabar — a polymorph of cinnabar, black mercuric sulfide, HgS.
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- metafunction — (computing, programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
- 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.
- metallogenic — relating to metallogeny
- metalorganic — (chemistry) organometallic.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- metamagnetic — (physics) Describing the transition from an antiferromagnetic to a ferromagnetic state.