12-letter words containing t, r, i, e, m
- minicomputer — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- ministership — (government) The position held by a minister.
- ministrative — Serving to aid; ministering.
- minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
- minor tenace — the king and jack of a suit held by one player.
- minstrelsies — Plural form of minstrelsy.
- mips project — Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- mis director — Chief Information Officer
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- misconstrues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misconstrue.
- miscreations — Plural form of miscreation.
- misdirecting — Present participle of misdirect.
- misdirection — a wrong or incorrect direction, guidance, or instruction.
- miserabilist — One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- misinterpret — Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.
- misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- misorientate — misorient.
- misrecollect — to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
- misrepresent — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
- mistranslate — Translate (something) incorrectly.
- mistreatment — to treat badly or abusively.
- mistressless — having no mistress
- mistrustless — having no distrust or misgiving
- misventurous — characterized by a mishap
- miter square — an instrument for laying out miter joints, consisting of two straightedges joined at a 45° angle.
- mithridatize — to induce a state of mithridatism in (a person).
- mitrailleuse — a machine gun.
- mitral valve — the valve between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart, consisting of two triangular flaps of tissue, that prevents the blood from flowing back into the atrium.
- mitre square — a tool with two blades that are at a fixed angle to one another, used to bevel a mitre joint
- mitteleuropa — Central Europe.
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
- 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.
- moisturizers — Plural form of moisturizer.
- 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.
- monotrichate — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- 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.