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12-letter words containing a, b, e, t, m

  • matabeleland — a region in Zimbabwe, formerly a province of Rhodesia, home to the Ndebele (Matabele).
  • melanoblasts — Plural form of melanoblast.
  • memorability — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
  • mental block — inability to recall
  • merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
  • metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
  • metabolizing — Present participle of metabolize.
  • metabolomics — the study of all the metabolites present in cells, tissues, and organs
  • metabonomics — (biochemistry, genetics) metabolomics.
  • metabotropic — Describing a neurotransmitter or cell receptor whose action is mediated by metabolic functions (e.g. enzyme activation).
  • metacinnabar — a polymorph of cinnabar, black mercuric sulfide, HgS.
  • metal lumber — a brand of sheet metal pressed and welded together to form joists and studding.
  • millilambert — a unit of luminance equal to one thousandth of a lambert. Abbreviation: mL.
  • misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
  • miserabilist — One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
  • mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
  • monte bianco — Mon·te [mawn-te] /ˈmɔn tɛ/ (Show IPA). Italian name of Mont Blanc.
  • montebrasite — a mineral, lithium aluminum hydroxyl phosphate, LiAlPO 4 (OH), isomorphous with amblygonite, used as an ore of lithium.
  • monterey bay — an inlet of the Pacific in W California. 26 miles (42 km) long.
  • moses basket — wicker bed for a baby
  • motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
  • mount kazbek — an extinct volcano in N Georgia in the central Caucasus Mountains. Height: 5047 m (16 558 ft)
  • mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
  • movable type — type from which text is printed directly in which each character is on a separate piece of metal.
  • multipliable — capable of being multiplied.
  • musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
  • mutable sign — any of the four astrological signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, that are grouped together because of their placement at the end of the seasons and characterized by the attribute of adaptability to circumstances.
  • mycobacteria — Plural form of mycobacterium.
  • myrtle beach — a town in E South Carolina.
  • namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
  • neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
  • non-imitable — capable or worthy of being imitated: She has many good, imitable qualities.
  • noncombative — Not combative.
  • not-a-number — (mathematics)   (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
  • numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
  • off the beam — any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
  • overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
  • paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • payment bond — See under contract bond.
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • permeability — the property or state of being permeable.
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
  • rubber match — rubber2 (def 4)
  • rubber stamp — handheld printing tool
  • rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
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