12-Letter Words Starting with M

""MACADAMIZE To cover, as a road, or street, parking lot, playground, or other flat area, with macadam, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.macadam, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.""

Having machicolations.

Plots involving high-speed races

Schemes - plotting

Foul weather gear

""MACROCYTE An abnormally large red blood cell, associated with pernicious anemia.""

An abnormal physiological condition characterized by the presence of macrocytes in the blood.

Macrofossil

Macrogamete

""Pl. macronuclei (-kl - ) The larger of two nuclei present in ciliate protozoans, which controls nonreproductive functions of the cell, such as metabolism.""

""Pl. macronuclei (-kl - ) The larger of two nuclei present in ciliate protozoans, which controls nonreproductive functions of the cell, such as metabolism.""

Having long wings.

Magistracy

How attraction may happen in delightful way, securing catch

Magnifical

Elaborately impressive quality

Elaborate and impressive quality

Splendour

Maintenance

In a stately and sublime manner

Malacology

One versed in the science of malacology.

Malcontent.

Malediction

Malefaction

Maleficence

Malevolence

Malfeasance

Stops working for most stag parties

Malignancy

Faulty contact between the upper and lower teeth when the jaw is closed.

Malpractice

MAMMOGRAPH

Mantelpiece

Curate involved with mad fun? It's artificial

Made

Fellow switched future car brand

Maker of goods

Fabricator makes things up presumably

Manufacture

Mariculture

Marketplace

MASCULINISE

Masculinise

MASCULINIZE

Masculinize

Mastectomy

Owner scraps works of art

Best work in epic art seems different

*Works worth framing

Mastication

Matchmaking

Male at match, I get confused by numbers

(Of proof) very accurate

Like magic squares

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

Matriarchy

Matriculant

Enrolled.

Registers as a student

Meatpacking

(Medicine / Pharmacology) a ganglion-blocking drug administered orally to lower high blood pressure. Formula: C 11 H 21 N [from me ( thyl ) + cam ( phane ) (a former name of bornane) + -yl + amine ]

(Done) without thought or spontaneity

Mechanician

MECHANIZE To cause to be mechanical.

Rather inferior people

Act of controlling by force

Person with delusions of power

One thinking he is great

Megaproject

""A mental disorder characterized by severe depression, guilt, hopelessness, and withdrawal.""

Melancholia

Melancholic

Melancholy

Emotionally overblown (in theatre)

Exaggerated - over-emotional

Exaggerated, over-emotional

In a lying manner

Mendicancy

""Pl. meningococci (-k k s , -k ) A bacterium (Neisseria meningitidis) that causes cerebrospinal meningitis.""

""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

MERISTEM formative plant tissue

MERISTIC made up of segments

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

Mesalliance

English word

Mesmerical

Mesocyclone

""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.

Metacentric

English word

Metafiction

Adjective (-ic)

Iron Lady confused new pound for old penny according to their content

Like a figure of speech

Symbolic of something else

Figurative

A cheat simply becomes abstruse

Very abstract.

Of or pertaining to metathesis.

""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.

""Pl. metencephala (-l ) The anterior part of the embryonic hindbrain, which gives rise to the cerebellum and pons.""

METEORIC resembling a {meteor=n}

METEORITIC

Of the study of weather

METHACRYLATE

Methicillin

Methodical

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

Strict attention to minute details; the quality of being meticulous.

Meticulous

Metrication

Of or pertaining to metrology.

METRONOMIC

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

Warlike

Millimicron

Small units of time

Electronic development of the 1960's

Small digital electronic device

Laptop, for example

Magically

Misalliance

ALLOCATED allocate

Misallocate

Having a dislike of humankind

Disliking all mankind

Right! I can stop him, with manipulation, having a hatred of mankind

BALANCING balance

What a bad summer will do (wordplay)

Judge incorrectly

Miscaption

Miscarriage

Miscatalog

Miscellany

A writer of miscellanies; miscellanarian.

Mischannel

Miscitation

COMPUTING compute

CONCEIVED conceive

One who misconceives.

Misconceive

Misconduct

Misconnect

Interpreted wrongly

Strange documents sir interpreted wrongly

Consider smut could have been taken the wrong way

Misconstrue

Miscreation

DESCRIBED describe

Misdescribe

Misdirect

Leading astray (of jury)

EDUCATING educate

""EDUCATION The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.""

Misericorde

Misfeasance

Misfocus

Misfunction

Misguidance

Mislocation

Woman-hating