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.""

Plots involving high-speed races

Schemes - plotting

Foul weather gear

""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.""

Madreporian

How attraction may happen in delightful way, securing catch

Capable of magnetized.

""An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.""

Instrument for measuring earth's field

An instrument for measuring the magnitude and direction of a magnetic field.

The outer boundary of the magnetosphere.

Magnifical

Elaborately impressive quality

Elaborate and impressive quality

Splendour

Man, long quiet, getting drunk and boastful

Lofty quote naming suspect, criminal finally caught

The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.

Sounds like it's made in the old kitchen for some of those waiting

Mainstream

Can be justified

Maintenance

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

MALAPERT an impudent person

Malcontent.

Malediction

Malefaction

Maleficence

Malevolence

In a malevolent manner.

Malfeasance

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

Stops working for most stag parties

Malignancy

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

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

Malposition

Bullying, say

Lament matter concerning bullying

Cruel behaviour

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

""MANAGEMENT The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.""

Manageress

Managerial

Managership

Mandarinate

Mandarinism

Mandolinist

MANEUVER to perform a stratagem skilfully

Manfulness

Manifestant

Manifesto

Multiplicity.

""MANIPULATE To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus. as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.""

Osteopath's method

Osteopath's technique

Osteopathic technique

Inclined to control others

Machiavellian as a physiotherapist (wordplay)

Unscrupulously controlling

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

Mantelpiece

Curate involved with mad fun? It's artificial

Made

Fellow switched future car brand

Maker of goods

Fabricator makes things up presumably

Manufacture

Manumission

Marathoning

MARGINALIZE

Marginalize

Margination

Markedness

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

Marshiness

MASCULINISE

Masculinise

MASCULINIZE

Masculinize

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)

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.

Mastication

""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.

Matchmaking

The state of being material.

Matriculant

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

The act or process of increasing to the highest degree.

Meagerness

Meaningful

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

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.

Quaker place of worship

Quaker church

Quaker building

Act of controlling by force

Person with delusions of power

One thinking he is great

Megalomania

Megatonnage

Megavitamin

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

Melancholia

Melancholic

Melancholy

""MELANIZE to make dark, also MELANISE""

Melanoblast

Melanophore

Melioration

Mellowness

Membranous

Noun (-tion)

In a lying manner

Mendelevium

Mendicancy

""Pl. meningiomas or meningiomata (-m -t ) A slow-growing tumor of the meninges, occurring most often in adults.""

""Inflammation of the meninges of the brain and the spinal cord, most often caused by a bacterial or viral infection and characterized by fever, vomiting, intense headache, and stiff neck.""

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

Menorrhagia

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

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

Mensuration

""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

In the direction of the meridian.

Merrymaking

Mesalliance

English word

Meshuggener

Mesocyclone

Plural of Monseigneur .

METABOLIZE To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism. Metabolism.

Metacentric

Metafiction

Any language that can be used to describe another language or system of symbols.

""An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings.""

Metalwork

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

Methanation

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

Methenamine

Methicillin

Methylamine

Methylation

Metrication

METRONOMIC

Primatial line (wordplay)

Relating to a city

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

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.""

Microbrew

A trace element.

Microfilm

Microinject

Had problems with one's delegation (wordplay)

MICROMANAGE

Micromanage

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.""

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

Adjective (-ic)

Microtonal

Micturition

Mightiness

MILITANT a person who takes active part in a struggle

MILITARISE

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

Millenarian

Millihenry

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

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

MIRTHFUL full of mirth