15-letter words starting with mi
- microsporangium — a sporangium containing microspores.
- microsporocytes — Plural form of microsporocyte.
- microsporophyll — a leaflike organ bearing microsporangia.
- microstructural — Of or pertaining to a microstructure.
- microstructures — Plural form of microstructure.
- microtechnology — technology that uses microelectronics
- microtopography — microrelief.
- microtunnelling — a technique used to excavate tunnels mechanically for the laying of pipes
- mid-heavyweight — a professional wrestler weighing 199–209 pounds (91–95 kg)
- mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- mid-ocean ridge — any of several seismically active submarine mountain ranges that extend through the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans: each is hypothesized to be the locus of seafloor spreading.
- middelmannetjie — (South Africa) Ridge between ruts made by wheels in a dirt or gravel road.
- middle american — average middle-class Americans as a group, as distinguished from the rich or poor or the politically extreme.
- middle distance — Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
- middle palisade — a mountain of the Sierra Nevada in EC California, one of the Palisades Peaks in the Sierra Nevada 14,040 feet (4279 meters).
- middle-distance — Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
- midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
- midsummer's day — Midsummer's Day or Midsummer Day is the 24th of June.
- might-have-been — that which might have occurred if it were not for other events
- mignonette tree — henna (sense 1)
- miles and miles — a long distance
- miles gloriosus — a braggart soldier, esp as a stock figure in comedy
- military police — soldiers who perform police duties
- military school — military academy.
- milk of almonds — almond milk.
- milking machine — an electric machine for milking cows.
- milkweed beetle — any of several small red, black-spotted elongated beetles of the genus Tetraopes, common in eastern North America, that inhabit the milkweed.
- milkweed family — the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne seeds, and including the anglepod, butterfly weed, milkweed, stephanotis, and wax plant.
- milliequivalent — a unit of measure, applied to electrolytes, that expresses the combining power of a substance. Abbreviation: mEq.
- milling machine — a machine tool for rotating a cutter (milling cutter) to produce plane or formed surfaces on a workpiece, usually by moving the work past the cutter.
- millionairesses — Plural form of millionairess.
- mind how you go — Some people say 'Mind how you go' when they are saying goodbye to someone who is leaving.
- miner's lettuce — winter purslane.
- mineral kingdom — minerals collectively.
- mineral spirits — a volatile distillation product of petroleum, used as a thinner for paints and varnishes. Compare naphtha (def 1).
- mineralogically — With regard to mineralogy.
- miniaturisation — Alternative spelling of miniaturization.
- miniaturization — to make in extremely small size in order to keep volume or weight to a minimum: to miniaturize electronic equipment.
- minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
- minimum tillage — no-tillage.
- mining engineer — a person whose job is to carry out mining engineering
- ministerialists — Plural form of ministerialist.
- minkowski world — a four-dimensional space in which the fourth coordinate is time and in which a single event is represented as a point.
- minority leader — the party member who directs the activities of the minority party on the floor of a legislative body, as of the U.S. Congress.
- minority report — a report by a minority of members of a group that disagrees with the official report issued by the group
- mirror symmetry — symmetry about a plane (mirror plane) that divides the object or system into two mutual mirror images
- mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
- mis-measurement — the act of measuring.
- misappreciation — failure to appreciate something fully or properly