12-letter words starting with mi
- middle youth — the period of life between about 30 and 50
- middle-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class; bourgeois: middle-class taste; middle-class morality.
- middle-level — occurring at or having a middle or intermediate position or status: middle-level management.
- middle-sized — medium-sized.
- middlebrowed — midway between highbrow and lowbrow
- middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
- middlescence — the middle-age period of life, especially when considered a difficult time of self-doubt and readjustment.
- middleweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 160 pounds (72.5 kg).
- middlingness — Quality of being middling.
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- midlatitudes — Areas lying between 35 and 55 (or more broadly, between 30 and 60) degrees north or south of the equator.
- midnight sun — the sun visible at midnight in mid-summer in arctic and antarctic regions.
- midwest city — a city in central Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City.
- midwesterner — Middle West.
- midwife toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans (family Discoglossidae), noted for its unusual breeding habits, in which mating occurs on land and the male broods the egg strings by wrapping them around his legs.
- mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
- migrationist — a person who considers it important for species of animals and plants to migrate for the purposes of distribution and evolution
- 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.
- mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.