12-letter words containing lan
- mass balance — Mass balance is a consideration of the input, output, and distribution of a substance between streams in a process or stage.
- matabeleland — a region in Zimbabwe, formerly a province of Rhodesia, home to the Ndebele (Matabele).
- matriculants — Plural form of matriculant.
- median plane — a vertical plane that divides an organism into symmetrical halves.
- melancholiac — affected with melancholia.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- melanization — the process of melanizing, or the state of being melanized
- melanoblasts — Plural form of melanoblast.
- melanochroic — Melanochroid
- melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
- melanophores — Plural form of melanophore.
- melanotropin — MSH.
- meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
- mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
- metalanguage — any language or symbolic system used to discuss, describe, or analyze another language or symbolic system.
- michelangelo — (Michelangelo Buonarroti) 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
- microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
- microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- mid-atlantic — using, manifesting, or characterized by a mixture of American and British behavior or speech.
- middle plane — middle distance (def 1).
- minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
- mirror plant — a shrub, Coprosma repens, of the madder family, native to New Zealand and cultivated in warm regions, having glossy, often variegated leaves.
- miscellanies — a miscellaneous collection or group of various or somewhat unrelated items.
- miscellanist — a person who writes, compiles, or edits miscellanies.
- monkey gland — the testicle of an ape or monkey, said to have a revitalizing effect on humans when administered by grafting or adding the essence to the bloodstream
- moon landing — the act of landing on the moon
- nanoplankton — nannoplankton.
- ncr language — Software Writer's Language
- near islands — a group of islands of SW Alaska, the smallest and westernmost of the Aleutian Islands, including Attu.
- netherlander — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- new atlantis — a political allegory by Francis Bacon, published in 1627.
- newfoundland — a large island in E Canada. 42,734 sq. mi. (110,680 sq. km).
- noctambulant — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
- nonchalantly — coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited; casual: His nonchalant manner infuriated me.
- nonlandowner — a person who does not own any land; a tenant
- noordholland — North Holland
- north island — the northernmost principal island of New Zealand. 44,281 sq. mi. (114,690 sq. km).
- oakland park — a town in S Florida.
- oblanceolate — inversely lanceolate, as a leaf.
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
- outer planet — any of the four planets with orbits outside the orbit of Mars, namely, the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
- outside lane — the lane on a motorway where overtaking of other vehicles is permitted and vehicles can travel fastest
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- oxygen lance — a tube for conveying oxygen, used in various thermal cutting or steelmaking operations.