12-Letter Words Starting with M

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

English word

Millimicron

Many yacht owners, for example

Airline limos reserved for the rich

Airline's limo is reserved for rich people

Milliradian

Mimeograph

MINERALISE

Mineralizer

MINERALIZE To transform into a mineral.

Mineralogy

One studying ores

Expert on ores

Expert on the rocks in one kingdom

Minesweeper

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 provision of care

Help

Small German bards

Minstrelsy

Magically

MIRTHFUL full of mirth

Likely to be returned

Misaddress

Bad luck; accidental killing

Tortuous drive meant us having accident

Unfortunate incident

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

""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).""

Misbehavior

Misbeliever

Miscarriage

One who misconceives.

Interpreted wrongly

Strange documents sir interpreted wrongly

Consider smut could have been taken the wrong way

Misconstrue

Miscreation

"No-spitting" violations, for example

No-spitting violations, for example

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

DESCRIBED describe

Misdescribe

Misdirect

Leading astray (of jury)

Misenrol

Misericorde

Misgovern

Misinfer

Young woman heard leaking incriminating evidence is being deceptive

Take the wrong way, as writing

Take the wrong way

Understand incorrectly

Misinter

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

Misorient

PERCEIVED perceive

Misperceive

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

Aim to sign evangelists

Missionizer

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

Mockingbird

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

Modernness

Modularity

MOISTURISE

Moisturizer

MOISTURIZE

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

Having advanced, they charge

They advance and charge

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

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

Monitorship

Monochromat

Male choir on Tom's round as B/W photographer (wordplay)

Monocrystal

MONOCULTURE

Monoculture

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

Pertaining to a monodrama.

Monogrammer

Monogram

Monograph

""Chemistry Having only one form, as one crystal form.""

Mononuclear

Monopolizer

MONORCHID

Monoterpene

MONSIGNORI

MOONLIGHTER moonlight

The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse.

Morbidness

Moroseness

""Pl. morphallaxes (-l k s z) The regeneration of a body part by means of structural or cellular reorganization with only limited production of new cells, observed primarily in invertebrate organisms, such as certain lobsters.""

""Pl. morphallaxes (-l k s z) The regeneration of a body part by means of structural or cellular reorganization with only limited production of new cells, observed primarily in invertebrate organisms, such as certain lobsters.""

Morphology

One who is versed in the science of morphology.

Form ()

Mortarboard

Parts of computers showing maternal love in poets (wordplay)

A person who is deemed to be worthless or despicable; -- obscene and highly offensive.

Motherhouse

The state or quality of being motherly.

MOTHPROOFER mothproof

Mothproof

MOTONEURON

MOTORBOATER motorboat

Former Olympic event

Playful sexual maneuver involving using a woman's cleavage for resonance

""The act of riding by motorcycle, a two-wheeled motor vehicle""

Harley-Davidson or Indian rider

Member of the Harley Owners Group

One roars along on two wheels

The act of motorizing (equiping with motors or with motor vehicles).

They're inclined to explore county without borders in state west of Queen's

Superlative adjective

Sad feeling

I needed a few pointers, and I was...

'I needed a few pointers, and I was...'

""Any of various fishes, especially of the genera Haplochromis and Tilapia, that carry their eggs and young in the mouth.""

Mucoprotein

Muliebrity

Multicolor

Plural or third person singular

Many and various

Of various kinds

Having many aspects

The quality of being multiform; diversity of forms; variety of appearances in the same thing.

Applying to many nations etc

Agreed by three or more parties

Involving several parties

Multilayer

""Containing many nuclei; as, multinuclear cells. as, multinuclear cells.""

Involving many sections

Noun (-ure)

MULTIPLEXER multiplex

Multiplexor

Word with prefix multi-

Word with prefix multi-

Having many prongs.

Serving many functions

Adaptable, versatile

MULTISENSE

Offering or involving a variety of services: a multiservice agency for the elderly.

Having several stories: a multistory hotel.

Past tense or past participle

Past tense or past participle

MULTIVARIATE

Big campus, today

Word with prefix multi-

Musculature

""A group of rod-shaped bacteria, some saprophytic or causing diseases.""

English word

An organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant.

In an incomprehensible and obscure manner

A composer of fables.

""One who, or that which, mythologizes.""