13-letter words containing min
- don't mind me — You say 'Don't mind me' to apologize for your presence when you think that it might embarrass someone, and to tell them to carry on with what they were doing or about to do.
- double-minded — wavering or undecided in mind.
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- examinability — The quality or state of being examinable.
- examinatorial — of or having to do with an examiner or examination
- exterminating — Present participle of exterminate.
- extermination — Killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals.
- exterminators — Plural form of exterminator.
- exterminatory — Relating to or marked by extermination.
- family-minded — devoted to one's family
- feeble-minded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
- fickle-minded — (of a person) prone to casual change; inconstant.
- flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
- flaminian way — an ancient Roman road extending N from Rome to what is now Rimini. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- fleming valve — (formerly) a diode.
- foraminiferal — Of, pertaining to, or resembling the foraminifers; foraminiferous.
- foraminiferan — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
- frame of mind — mental state
- free-swimming — (of aquatic organisms) not attached to a base nor joined in a colony; capable of swimming about freely.
- fruit farming — the practice of growing or farming fruit
- fulminic acid — an unstable acid, CNOH, isomeric with cyanic acid, and known only in the form of its salts.
- galactosamine — an amino sugar that is a major component of glycolipids and chondroitin.
- geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
- germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- go swimmingly — If you say that something is going swimmingly, you mean that everything is happening in a satisfactory way, without any problems.
- graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
- graminivorous — feeding or subsisting on grass: a graminivorous bird.
- gray eminence — a person who wields unofficial power, especially through another person and often surreptitiously or privately.
- habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- heart-warming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- helminthiasis — a disease caused by parasitic worms in the intestines.
- helminthology — the scientific study of worms, especially of parasitic worms.
- histaminergic — releasing histamine
- histogramming — (mathematics) The construction of histograms.
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- homing pigeon — any pigeon used to carry messages and equipped by training and breeding to fly home, sometimes from great distances.
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- hydroxylamine — an unstable, weakly basic, crystalline compound, NH 3 O, used as a reducing agent, analytical reagent, and chemical intermediate.
- ignominiously — marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
- illuminations — Plural form of illumination.
- illuminometer — an instrument for measuring illumination.
- incriminating — to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault: He incriminated both men to the grand jury.
- incrimination — to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault: He incriminated both men to the grand jury.
- incriminatory — to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault: He incriminated both men to the grand jury.
- indeterminacy — the condition or quality of being indeterminate; indetermination.