12-letter words that end in n
- men-children — plural of man-child.
- 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.
- meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
- mesoamerican — Alternative form of Mesoamerican.
- mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
- mesopotamian — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
- metafunction — (computing, programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
- metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- microstation — (application) A full-featured 2-D and 3-D CAD program for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and Unix workstations from Bentley Systems, Inc. Created in 1984, MicroStation is a high-end package used worldwide in environments where many designers work on large, complex projects. MicroStation Modeler is a superset of MicroStation that provides solid modelling, and MasterPiece is MicroStation's rendering and animation program.
- microsurgeon — a person who performs microsurgery
- midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
- middle latin — Medieval Latin
- midnight sun — the sun visible at midnight in mid-summer in arctic and antarctic regions.
- militiawoman — A female member of a militia.
- militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
- millilampson — /mil'*-lamp"sn/ A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people speak faster. This unit is sometimes used to compare the (sometimes widely disparate) rates at which people can generate ideas and actually emit them in speech. For example, noted computer architect C. Gordon Bell (designer of the PDP-11) is said, with some awe, to think at about 1200 mL but only talk at about 300; he is frequently reduced to fragments of sentences as his mouth tries to keep up with his speeding brain.
- minification — The reduction in apparent size of objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase the field of view, such as a convex or aspheric mirror or a Fresnel lens.
- minimifidian — Having a minimal amount of faith.
- minimisation — Alternative spelling of minimization.
- minimization — to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree.
- ministration — the act of ministering care, aid, religious service, etc.
- mirror canon — a canon in which the parts are written as though seen in a mirror placed between them: one part or set of parts is the upside-down image of the other
- mis-position — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- misdirection — a wrong or incorrect direction, guidance, or instruction.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- misformation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- misintention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
- misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- misquotation — the act of misquoting.
- missummation — an incorrect summation
- mobilisation — The act of mobilising.
- mobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
- modification — an act or instance of modifying.
- momification — the transition of a successful career woman into one who is chiefly concerned with homemaking and raising children
- monetisation — Alternative spelling of monetization.
- monetization — to legalize as money.
- monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
- monohydrogen — relating to a molecule in which there is a single hydrogen ion for each combining ion
- 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.
- moralisation — Standard spelling of moralization.
- moralization — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- morigeration — (obsolete) obsequiousness; obedience.
- moss campion — cushion pink.
- moth mullein — a weedy, European mullein, Verbascum blattaria, of the figwort family, having lance-shaped leaves and loose spikes of white or yellow flowers.
- mother-seton — Saint Elizabeth Ann (Bayley) ("Mother Seton") 1774–1821, U.S. educator, social-welfare reformer, and religious leader: first native-born American to be canonized (1975).
- motor neuron — a nerve cell that conducts impulses to a muscle, gland, or other effector.
- motor-driven — propelled or made to function by means of a motor