12-Letter Words Starting with M

Metastasize

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.

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

Methanation

""A potentially habit-forming drug, C 16 H 14 N 2 O, formerly used as a sedative and hypnotic.""

Methenamine

Methicillin

Methodical

METHOTREXATE

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

Methylamine

Methylation

English word

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

Meticulous

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

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

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

Weather conditions in a local area

Distinct conditions of small area

Weather of a small area

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

A trace element.

MICROFILMER microfilm

Microgamete

Micrograph

Microgroove

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.

A very small pipette used in microinjection.

Microreader

Microscopy

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

Copy, including rewritten score, is of a small movement

Microsphere

Grimy scourer (anagram)

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

Medical intervention a conflation of mercy and rigours (wordplay)

Adjective (-ic)

Microtubule

MICROWAVE

Roy Jones, Jr. for one

Hurricane Carter, for one

Power boxing oddly wielded for boxer

Midlatitude

Mightiness

MILITANT a person who takes active part in a struggle

Millenarian

Millesimal

Milliampere

Millidegree

Millihenry

English word

Many yacht owners, for example

Airline limos reserved for the rich

Airline's limo is reserved for rich people

Small units of time

Mimeograph

Mindedness

MINDLESS lacking intelligence

MINERALISE

Mineralizer

MINERALIZE To transform into a mineral.

Mineralogy

One studying ores

Expert on ores

Expert on the rocks in one kingdom

Minesweeper

The activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines.

MINIATURIZE To design or construct on a smaller scale.

Miniaturize

Electronic development of the 1960's

Small digital electronic device

Laptop, for example

Small German bards

Minstrelsy

Minuteness

MIRTHFUL full of mirth

Likely to be returned

Misaddress

Bad luck; accidental killing

Tortuous drive meant us having accident

Unfortunate incident

Incorrect relative positioning

Forged metals, mining being out (wordplay)

Incorrect positioning

Misalliance

ALLOCATED allocate

Misallocate

Characters such as Moliere's Alceste

Man-haters

Is smart phone designed for antisocial types (wordplay)

Get the wrong idea

Get the wrong idea about tailored denim perhaps

Opens manacles in stockade to take prisoner by mistake

ASSEMBLED assemble

Misassemble

""ATTRIBUTE To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).""

Misbegin

Misbehavior

Misbeliever

BELIEVING believe

What a bad summer will do (wordplay)

Judge incorrectly

Miscaption

Miscarriage

Miscatalog

Miscellany

A writer of miscellanies; miscellanarian.

Mischannel

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

One guilty of a misdemeanor.

"No-spitting" violations, for example

No-spitting violations, for example

Last word of Article II of the U.S. Constitution

DESCRIBED describe

Misdescribe

Misdevelop

DIAGNOSED diagnose

Misdiagnose

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.""

""EMPHASIZE To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase. as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.""

Misemploy

Misenrol

Misericorde

Misesteem

ESTIMATED estimate

Misestimate

EVALUATED evaluate

Misevaluate

Misfeasance

Misgovern

Misguidance

Misinfer

Take the wrong way, as writing

Take the wrong way

Understand incorrectly

Misinter

Misjudgment

""KNOWLEDGE The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.""

Mislabel

Misleading

Failing unions, like some in Middlemarch, arise as Grimm rewrite

Misorient

PERCEIVED perceive

Misperceive

""The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.""

Misprogram

Say "cachet" as "ca-CHET," say

Say wrongly

Timid people, covering second part of speech, don't sound right

An erroneous computation.

Misrecord

""REFERENCE The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for quidance. as, reference to a chart for quidance.""

Misrefer

Misregister

Misremember

Misrender

Misreport

Perhaps spin doctor Premier's dispatched

Give a false account of (something)

Give false account of

Missiology

Aim to sign evangelists

Missionizer

Misspelling

Mark one's financial record as a lie

Wrong utterance

Wrong assertion

Botch the subtitles, maybe

Incorrectly interpret nasty snarl dividing Michigan State

Abuse; bad handling

Cruel misuse

Abuse

MITOGENIC

Mnemonical

The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.

Modernness

Modishness

Modularity

Moisturizer

Molestation

An agent that kills mollusks.

Overprotected

Pampered

Cosseted

MOLLYCODDLE a pampered darling; an effeminate man; a milksop.

Polly punishes while...

Polly punishes while ...

Babies.

Molybdenite

Of or pertaining to the Monadelphia; having the stamens united in one body by the filaments.

""The act or process of converting into money, or of adopting as money; as, the monetization of silver. as, the monetization of silver.""

Having advanced, they charge

They advance and charge

They take a great interest in those making advances at a ridiculous rate

Moneymaking

""MONGRELIZE To cause to be mongrel; to cross breeds, so as to produce mongrels.""

Pranks of a sort.

Mischevious pranks

Monoculture

(Chemistry) Chem (of a colloidal system) having particles of similar size

Strand of man-made fibre

Monogrammer

Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.

Mononuclear

MONONUCLEATE

""Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin. polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.""

Monopolizer