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12-letter words containing a, g, e, m

  • longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
  • macrogametes — Plural form of macrogamete.
  • macrosegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
  • magic bullet — something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.
  • magic carpet — flying rug in fantasy stories
  • magic circle — the British association of magicians, traditionally forbidden to reveal any of the secrets of their art
  • magic cookie — 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operation; a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way. E.g. on non-Unix operating systems with a non-byte-stream model of files, the result of "ftell" may be a magic cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be passed to "fseek", but not operated on in any meaningful way. The phrase "it hands you a magic cookie" means it returns a result whose contents are not defined but which can be passed back to the same or some other program later. 2. An in-band code for changing graphic rendition (e.g. inverse video or underlining) or performing other control functions. Some older terminals would leave a blank on the screen corresponding to mode-change magic cookies; this was also called a glitch (or occasionally a "turd"; compare mouse droppings). See also cookie.
  • magic marker — felt-tip pen
  • magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
  • magic square — a square containing integers arranged in an equal number of rows and columns so that the sum of the integers in any row, column, or diagonal is the same.
  • maginot line — a zone of heavy defensive fortifications erected by France along its eastern border in the years preceding World War II, but outflanked in 1940 when the German army attacked through Belgium.
  • magistracies — Plural form of magistracy.
  • magnet steel — steel used for the manufacture of permanent magnets, often having a high cobalt content and smaller amounts of nickel, aluminium, or copper
  • magnetic dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
  • magnetic ink — ink containing particles of a magnetic material used for printing characters for magnetic character recognition
  • magnetically — By or as by, magnetism.
  • magnetizable — susceptible to magnetization.
  • magnetograph — a recording magnetometer, used especially for recording variations in the earth's magnetic field.
  • magnetometer — an instrument for measuring the intensity of a magnetic field, especially the earth's magnetic field.
  • magnetometry — (physics) The measurement of magnetic fields (strength and direction etc).
  • magnetooptic — pertaining to the effect of magnetism upon the propagation of light.
  • magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
  • magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
  • magnetotaxis — movement or orientation of an organism in response to a magnetic field.
  • magnificence — the quality or state of being magnificent; splendor; grandeur; sublimity: the magnificence of snow-covered mountains; the magnificence of his achievements.
  • magniloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
  • magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
  • magpie goose — a black-and-white gooselike bird, Anseranas semipalmatus, of Australia, believed to be the most primitive waterfowl in existence.
  • mail gateway — (messaging)   A machine that connects two or more electronic mail systems (including dissimilar mail systems) and transfers messages between them. Sometimes the mapping and translation can be quite complex, and it generally requires a store and forward scheme whereby the message is received from one system completely before it is transmitted to the next system, after suitable translations.
  • mail merging — a software facility that can produce a large number of personalized letters by combining a file containing a list of names and addresses with one containing a single standard document
  • mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
  • main bearing — one of the bearings in an internal combustion engine upon which the crankshaft rotates
  • major league — The major leagues are groups of professional sports teams that compete against each other, especially in American baseball.
  • major-league — Sports. of, relating to, or characteristic of the major leagues.
  • majorleaguer — either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
  • make game of — to make fun of; ridicule; mock
  • make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
  • male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
  • malignancies — Plural form of malignancy.
  • malt vinegar — acidic condiment made from malted barley
  • managed care — a healthcare plan or system that seeks to control medical costs by contracting with a network of providers.
  • managed code — (operating system)   Code that is executed by the .NET common language runtime (CLR). VB.NET code is always managed code but C++ .NET can optionally use unmanaged code. Managed code provides metadata allowing the CLR to manage security (role-based as well as new approaches to code access security). The CLR also handles errors, manages the program stack and finds methods in assembly modules. Managed data is memory that's subject to garbage collection. There are additional restrictions to permit interoperability of different languages, for example, Visual Basic arrays must be zero-based.
  • managemental — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
  • managerially — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
  • maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
  • mangelwurzel — a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
  • manoeuvering — Present participle of manoeuver.
  • manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
  • manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
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