12-Letter Words Containing R

Mainstream

Based on majority rule: "a naively uncomplicated premise of simple majoritarian democracy" (Saturday Review).

MALAPERT an impudent person

Mozart was a child progeny, etc.

'Select words so ingeniously misapplied'

"Mozart was a child progeny," etc.

Malapropist

Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure.

Provided with inadequate sustenance

With oil run out, abandoned after parent became short of food

Starved

Run into Tamil building for lack of food

Lack of adequate nourishment

Severe lack of proper food

Malodorous

Malpractice

Bullying, say

Lament matter concerning bullying

Cruel behaviour

""Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.""

MAMMOGRAPH

Manageress

Managerial

Managership

Mandarinate

Mandarinism

MANEUVER to perform a stratagem skilfully

Manipulator

Of or pertaining to manipulation.

The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance.

Manorialism

Ho ho ho, maybe

Crime of unpremeditated killing

Bloke's mirth is killing

Curate involved with mad fun? It's artificial

Made

Fellow switched future car brand

Maker of goods

Fabricator makes things up presumably

Manufacture

Maquiladora

Marathoning

MARGINALIZE

Marginalize

Margination

Margraviate

Mariculture

Markedness

Marketplace

Skill with rifle, crossbow etc

Skill in hitting a target

Skill in shooting

""Nautical A pointed metal spike, used to separate strands of rope or wire in splicing.""

Marlinspike

Marquessate

Marqueterie

Marquisette

Suitable to become a union member

Nubile (literally)

Marshalship

Marshiness

Spongy, gelatin-filled sweets

Toast one of these

Spongy sweets

Soft and yielding

Space men, witches, clowns, etc.

Pretending

The quality or state of being masterly; ability to control wisely or skillfully.

Teacher took care to get organised

Did the brainwork.

Was the genius controlling teacher resented (wordplay)

Owner scraps works of art

Best work in epic art seems different

*Works worth framing

One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.

A touch of genius (wordplay)

Well-timed act

Very clever move

""MASTURBATE To achieve sexual gratification by stimulating one's own sexual organs, without the aid of a partner; -- typically to the point of orgasm.""

Onanism; selfpollution.

Masturbator

MASTURBATOR

Potentially it is 'made real'

Materialise

Materialism

These people at it miss real issue

""MATERIALIZE To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.""

""MATERIALIZE To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.""

Materialize

The state of being material.

The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.

Matriarchy

Matriculant

Enrolled.

Registers as a student

""MATURATION The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.""

Meagerness

Sizes of certain players in foreign teams

Calculates workers at the bar inside for the designer

Judges locking up workers for first time seen on tapes

Rather inferior people

Megaproject

Melanophore

Melioration

Emotionally overblown (in theatre)

Exaggerated - over-emotional

Exaggerated, over-emotional

Membranous

The quality or state of being memorable.

MEMORIALISE Same as memorialize.

Memorialise

A strict version of six (wordplay)

""MEMORIALIZE To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature. as, to memorialize the legislature.""

Memorialize

Noun (-tion)

Menorrhagia

Discharging menstrual fluid; -- of women during their menstrual period.

""The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.""

Mensuration

Meprobamate

""MERCANTILE Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.""

""MERCANTILE Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.""

Charmed Denis (anagram)

A trader.

Merchandise

MERCHANDIZE

Merchandize

Two kinds of seaman like hot cakes (wordplay)

MERCIFUL full of mercy

Mercuration

Courier-Times (anagram) - tacky

Superficially attractive but worthless

In the direction of the meridian.

MERISTEM formative plant tissue

MERISTIC made up of segments

""Of or pertaining to meritocracy; as, meritocratic society.as, meritocratic society.""

Merrymaking

Concentrated on going after funny bone

Wishbone, however, swallowed by slightly drunk head of table

Meshuggener

Mesmerical

Mesomorphy

""Pl. mesothoraxes or mesothoraces (-thôr -s z , -th r -) The middle of the three divisions of the thorax of an insect, bearing the middle pair of legs and the first pair of wings.""

Of or pertaining to the mesothorax.

Mesothorax

Plural of Monseigneur .

Metacentric

English word

Metallurgy

Studier of certain elements or alloys

Expert in smelting, refining, etc.

Shockingly ill-treat smug scientist

METALWORKER metalwork

Metalwork

""The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble.""

Undergo drastic change

Develop into another form

Change completely

Like a figure of speech

Symbolic of something else

Figurative

""Pl. metathoraxes or metathoraces (-thôr -s z , -th r -) The hindmost of the three divisions of the thorax of an insect, bearing the third pair of legs and the second pair of wings.""

Of or pertaining to the metathorax.

Metathorax

METEORIC resembling a {meteor=n}

METEORITIC

Of the study of weather

METHACRYLATE

METHOTREXATE

""A white crystalline compound, Cl 3 CCH(C 6 H 4 OCH 3 ) 2 , used as an insecticide.""

English word

Metrication

Of or pertaining to metrology.

Metrologist

METRONOMIC

Areas in insets

Primatial line (wordplay)

Relating to a city

'50s U.K.-built Nash & Hudson model

""Profuse bleeding from the womb, esp. such as does not occur at the menstrual period.""

Microampere

Pl. microanalyses (-s z ) The chemical identification and analysis of extremely small quantities of matter.

Histology.

""A balance designed to weigh very small loads, up to 0.1 gram.""

""The branch of biology studying minute organisms, or microbes, such as the bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa.""

MICROBREWER microbrew

Small beer producer

Independently owned suds producer (and the suds in question)

Microbrew

""A small, sometimes microscopic capsule designed to release its contents when broken by pressure, dissolved, or melted.""

MICROCEPHAL

Chip component

Computer component with extremely small perimeter

Weather conditions in a local area

Distinct conditions of small area

Weather of a small area

Having a crystalline structure visible only under a microscope.

""Biology A small-scale culture of organisms, cells, or tissues.""

A trace element.

Microfibril

The minute larval form of a filarial worm [n -RIAE] : MICROFILARIAL

MICROFILMER microfilm

Microfilm

Microfossil

Microgamete

Micrograph

Of or pertaining to micrography.

""A condition in which there is very little net gravitational force, as of a free-falling object, an orbit, or interstellar space.""

Microgroove

""A very small, specialized habitat, such as a clump of grass or a space between rocks.""

Microinject

Had problems with one's delegation (wordplay)

MICROMANAGE

Micromanage

Micromethod

Pl. micronuclei (-kl - ) or micronucleuses The smaller of two nuclei in ciliate protozoans that contains genetic material and functions in reproduction.

""The science which treats of the means of increasing the intensity of low or weak sounds, or of the microphone.""

""(used with a sing. verb) The physics of molecular, atomic, nuclear, and subnuclear systems.""

A very small pipette used in microinjection.

(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing a sequence of microinstructions that controls the operation of an arithmetic and logic unit so that machine code instructions are executed

Microreader

Microscopy

""One skilled in, or given to, microscopy.""

Won't take long as half the microwaves have been used before

Copy, including rewritten score, is of a small movement

Microsphere

""MICROSPORE One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore. Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore.""

Grimy scourer (anagram)

Small cuts to be made in this theatrical performance (wordplay)

Medical intervention a conflation of mercy and rigours (wordplay)

Adjective (-ic)

Microtonal

""Any of the proteinaceous cylindrical hollow structures that are distributed throughout the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells, providing structural support and assisting in cellular locomotion and transport.""

Microtubule

Adjective (-ous)

MICROWAVE

Micturition

MILITARISE

Warlike

""MILITARIZE to lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force.""

Millenarian

Milliampere

Millidegree

Millihenry