12-letter words starting with mi
- micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
- microphonics — (electronics) The phenomenon where certain components in electronic devices transform mechanical vibrations into an unwanted electrical signal.
- microphoning — Present participle of microphone.
- microphonism — a usually undesirable property of some electronic circuits or components in which mechanical vibrations of a component affect the signal being transmitted through the circuit.
- microphysics — the branch of physics dealing with physical objects that are not large enough to be observed and treated directly, as elementary particles, atoms, and molecules.
- micropipette — a very slender pipette for transferring or measuring minute amounts of fluid, microorganisms, etc.
- 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 microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- microprinted — printed in microprint
- microprogram — Computers. a set of microinstructions that defines the individual operations that a computer carries out in response to a machine-language instruction.
- micropterous — (of certain animals, esp some types of ant) having small reduced wings
- micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
- microreaders — Plural form of microreader.
- microscopics — Any behaviour or characteristic observable at a microscopic scale.
- microscopies — Plural form of microscopy.
- microscopist — An expert at microscopy.
- microscopium — a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying near Sagittarius and Capricornus
- microseconds — Plural form of microsecond.
- microsegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by juncture.
- microseismic — Describing any small seismic event that causes little or no damage or disturbance.
- 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
- microsurgery — any of various surgical procedures performed under magnification and with small specialized instruments, permitting very delicate operations, as the reconnection of severed blood vessels and nerves.
- microsystems — Plural form of microsystem.
- microtektite — a microscopic tektite found in ocean sediments and polar ice.
- microtonally — In a microtonal manner.
- microtubular — Of or pertaining to microtubules.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- microvessels — Plural form of microvessel.
- microvillous — Relating to microvilli.
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- mid-atlantic — using, manifesting, or characterized by a mixture of American and British behavior or speech.
- mid-sentence — in the middle of a sentence or utterance
- midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
- midcontinent — In or near the middle of a continent.
- middle class — educated and well off
- middle congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- middle dutch — the Dutch language of the period c1100–c1500. Abbreviation: MD.
- middle eight — the third contrasting eight-bar section of a 32-bar pop song
- middle greek — Medieval Greek.
- middle guard — a defensive lineman positioned opposite the offensive center and between the defensive tackles, as in a three- or five-man line.
- middle irish — the Irish language of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
- middle latin — Medieval Latin
- middle plane — middle distance (def 1).
- middle river — a city in N Maryland: suburb of Baltimore.
- middle stump — the stump inside of the leg stump and the off stump; the second of the three stumps of a wicket.
- middle voice — the voice or form used when the subject of a verb performs an action on itself (often the reflexive form)
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- middle white — a breed of medium-sized white pig commonly kept for pork and bacon, and for fattening