12-letter words containing t, i, m, o, r
- minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
- minor tenace — the king and jack of a suit held by one player.
- mips project — Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
- mirror plant — a shrub, Coprosma repens, of the madder family, native to New Zealand and cultivated in warm regions, having glossy, often variegated leaves.
- mis director — Chief Information Officer
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
- 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.
- misdirection — a wrong or incorrect direction, guidance, or instruction.
- misformation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- misorientate — misorient.
- misportrayal — the act of portraying.
- misrecollect — to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
- misventurous — characterized by a mishap
- mitochondria — an organelle in the cytoplasm of cells that functions in energy production.
- mitteleuropa — Central Europe.
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- mixing ratio — the ratio of the mass of water vapor in the air to the mass of the dry air, a measure of atmospheric humidity.
- mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
- mobius strip — a continuous, one-sided surface formed by twisting one end of a rectangular strip through 180° about the longitudinal axis of the strip and attaching this end to the other.
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
- modificatory — modifying.
- moire effect — the appearance, when two regularly spaced sets of lines are superimposed, of a new set of lines (moiré pattern) passing through the points where the original lines cross at small angles.
- moistureless — Devoid of moisture.
- moisturising — Present participle of moisturise.
- moisturizers — Plural form of moisturizer.
- moisturizing — Present participle of moisturize.
- mole cricket — any of several burrowing crickets of the family Gryllotalpidae that have fossorial forelegs and that feed on the roots of plants.
- molecularity — the number of molecules or atoms that participate in an elementary process.
- monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- monochromist — An artist working in the monochromatic style.
- monodramatic — Relating to a monodrama.
- monostrophic — consisting of stanzas or strophes all having the same metrical structure.
- monotrichate — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- monotrichous — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- monotriglyph — (in the Doric order) any intercolumniation having one whole triglyph.
- monsterizing — Present participle of monsterize.
- monte cristo — a sandwich containing slices of ham, chicken, and Swiss cheese, dipped in beaten egg and fried until brown.
- montebrasite — a mineral, lithium aluminum hydroxyl phosphate, LiAlPO 4 (OH), isomorphous with amblygonite, used as an ore of lithium.
- montessorian — a system for teaching young children, in which the fundamental aim is self-motivated education by the children themselves, as they are encouraged to move freely through individualized instruction and physical exercises, accompanied by special emphasis on the training of the senses and the early development of reading and writing skills.
- moonstricken — Moonstruck.
- mooring mast — the mast or tower to which a dirigible is moored.
- moralisation — Standard spelling of moralization.