12-Letter Words Starting with M

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

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

MILITARISE

Warlike

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

Millenarian

Millesimal

Milliampere

Millidegree

Millihenry

English word

Millimicron

Many yacht owners, for example

Airline limos reserved for the rich

Airline's limo is reserved for rich people

Milliradian

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.

Miniaturist

MINIATURIZE To design or construct on a smaller scale.

Miniaturize

Electronic development of the 1960's

Small digital electronic device

Laptop, for example

The act or process of minimizing.

The provision of care

Help

Small German bards

Minstrelsy

Minuteness

Magically

MIRTHFUL full of mirth

Likely to be returned

Misaddress

Misadjust

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)

Having a dislike of humankind

Disliking all mankind

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

APPRAISAL A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.

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).""

BALANCING balance

Misbegin

Misbehavior

Misbeliever

BELIEVING believe

Misbutton

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

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

Wrong identification of an illness

Misdirect

Leading astray (of jury)

Misdivision

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

Misfocus

Misfunction

Misgovern

Misguidance

Misinfer

Young woman heard leaking incriminating evidence is being deceptive

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

Mislocation

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

Woman-hating

Misorient

PACKAGING package

PERCEIVED perceive

Misperceive

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

Misposition

Misprogram

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

Say wrongly

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

Erroneous or inaccurate quotation.

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

MISSIONIZE

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

Structures in cells that produce energy

In cell cytoplasm, organelles which store and release energy

MITOGENIC