12-letter words containing mil
- joint family — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
- juste milieu — a point between two extremes; the golden mean.
- juste-milieu — a point between two extremes; the golden mean.
- looping mill — a rolling mill for bar stock, wire, and the like, having the successive stands side by side so that the metal forms a loop in passing from stand to stand.
- maple family — the plant family Aceraceae, typified by trees and shrubs having sweet sap, simple opposite leaves usually lobed or toothed, clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a double-winged nutlet, and including maples and the box elder.
- maximilian i — 1459–1519, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1493–1519.
- megamillions — Plural form of megamillion.
- militainment — A form of entertainment that features or celebrates the military.
- militaristic — a person imbued with militarism.
- militarizing — Present participle of militarize.
- military law — the body of laws relating to the government of the armed forces; rules and regulations for the conduct of military personnel.
- militiawoman — A female member of a militia.
- militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
- milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
- milk product — Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
- milk pudding — a hot or cold pudding made by boiling or baking milk with a grain, esp rice
- milk thistle — flowering plant
- milk-livered — timid; cowardly
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- milking time — the time at which a cow is milked
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
- millefeuille — napoleon (def 1).
- millennially — In millennial terms.
- miller index — one of three integers giving the orientation and position of the face of a crystal in terms of the reciprocals, in lowest terms, of the intercepts of the face with each axis of the crystal.
- millesimally — in a millesimal manner
- milliammeter — an instrument for measuring small electric currents, calibrated in milliamperes.
- milliamperes — Plural form of milliampere.
- millicoulomb — a unit of electrical charge equal to one thousandth of a coulomb: Abbreviation: mC.
- millihenries — Plural form of millihenry.
- millilambert — a unit of luminance equal to one thousandth of a lambert. Abbreviation: mL.
- 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.
- millionaires — Plural form of millionaire.
- millionnaire — a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more in some unit of currency, as dollars.
- milliseconds — Plural form of millisecond.
- millisievert — (physics) A unit of ionizing radiation equal to 10-3 sieverts.
- milman parry — Milman, 1902–35, U.S. classical scholar and philologist.
- milne method — a numerical method, involving Simpson's rule, for solving a linear differential equation.
- milquetoasts — Plural form of milquetoast.
- milquetoasty — Meek, timid.
- miracle mile — an extended area of fashionable or expensive shops, restaurants, etc., usually along an urban or suburban thoroughfare.
- molly miller — a blenny, Scartella cristata, of Atlantic seas.
- multimillion — a cardinal number, a thousand times one thousand.
- non-familial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a family: familial ties.
- non-militant — vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause: militant reformers.
- non-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- olive family — the plant family Oleaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having opposite, simple or pinnately compound leaves, usually small and sometimes showy flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or winged seed, and including the ash, forsythia, lilac, olive, and privet.
- overfamiliar — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
- paramilitary — noting or pertaining to an organization operating as, in place of, or as a supplement to a regular military force: a paramilitary police unit.
- pearl millet — a tall grass, Pennisetum americanum (or P. glaucum), cultivated in Africa, Asia, and the southern U.S. for its edible seeds and as a forage plant.
- phlox family — the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.