12-letter words containing t, i, o, u
- 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.
- meretricious — alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
- mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
- mesokurtosis — (statistics) The property of having zero normalised kurtosis.
- metafunction — (computing, programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
- metasequoias — Plural form of metasequoia.
- meticulosity — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- meticulously — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- microcentury — One CS professor used to characterise the standard length of his lectures as a microcentury - that is, about 52.6 minutes (see also attoparsec, nanoacre, and especially microfortnight).
- microcircuit — Electronics. integrated circuit.
- microculture — subculture (def 3b).
- micropterous — (of certain animals, esp some types of ant) having small reduced wings
- microtubular — Of or pertaining to microtubules.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- middle youth — the period of life between about 30 and 50
- milk product — Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
- milquetoasts — Plural form of milquetoast.
- milquetoasty — Meek, timid.
- minicomputer — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- misconducted — Simple past tense and past participle of misconduct.
- 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.”.
- 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.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- misquotation — the act of misquoting.
- missummation — an incorrect summation
- misventurous — characterized by a mishap
- mitteleuropa — Central Europe.
- 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.
- moistureless — Devoid of moisture.
- moisturising — Present participle of moisturise.
- moisturizers — Plural form of moisturizer.
- moisturizing — Present participle of moisturize.
- molecularity — the number of molecules or atoms that participate in an elementary process.
- monostichous — (of parts) forming one row
- monotrichous — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- montezuma ii — c1470–1520, last Aztec emperor of Mexico 1502–20.
- mosquito fly — dragonfly (def 1).
- mosquito net — a screen, curtain, or canopy of net, gauze, or the like, for keeping out mosquitoes.
- mosquitofish — any of several fishes that feed on mosquito larvae, as Gambusia affinis, found in the southeastern U.S., now introduced into other parts of the world for mosquito control.
- moth mullein — a weedy, European mullein, Verbascum blattaria, of the figwort family, having lance-shaped leaves and loose spikes of white or yellow flowers.
- motion study — time and motion study.
- motu proprio — any of certain documents issued by the pope without counsel from others.
- mouldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- mount katmai — a volcano in SW Alaska, in the Aleutian Range: erupted in 1912 forming the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a region with numerous fumaroles; established as Katmai National Monument, 10 917 sq km (4215 sq miles), in 1918. Height: 2100 m (7000 ft). Depth of crater: 1130 m (3700 ft). Width of crater: about 4 km (2.5 miles)
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan