12-letter words containing a, i, m, t
- maximization — to increase to the greatest possible amount or degree: to look for ways of maximizing profit.
- meadow pipit — a common European songbird, Anthus pratensis, with a pale brown speckled plumage: family Motacillidae (pipits and wagtails)
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- meat grinder — machine: minces meat
- meat packing — the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.
- mechatronics — The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering for the study of automata from an engineering perspective and the control of advanced hybrid systems.
- media center — a library, usually in school, that contains and encourages the use of audiovisual media and associated equipment as well as books, periodicals, and the like.
- median point — centroid (def 2).
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
- medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
- meditational — Of, or pertaining to, meditation.
- meditatively — given to, characterized by, or indicative of meditation; contemplative.
- medium-dated — (of a gilt-edged security) having between five and fifteen years to run before redemption
- meeting rail — (in a double-hung window) the rail of each sash that meets a rail of the other when the window is closed.
- megalecithal — having a large amount of yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- melanization — the process of melanizing, or the state of being melanized
- melanotropin — MSH.
- melodramatic — of, like, or befitting melodrama.
- memorability — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- memorialists — Plural form of memorialist.
- memorisation — Alternative spelling of memorization.
- memorization — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
- menai strait — a strait between Anglesey Island and the mainland of NW Wales. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
- menstruation — the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus, occurring approximately monthly from puberty to menopause in nonpregnant women and females of other primate species.
- mental image — sth imagined
- mentally ill — having a mental illness.
- mercantilism — mercantile practices or spirit; commercialism.
- mercantilist — Of, pertaining to, or believing in mercantilism.
- mercurialist — a person born under the planet Mercury
- mercuriality — Mercurial behaviour.
- meristematic — consisting of or having the properties of meristem.
- meristically — in a meristic manner
- meritocratic — an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth.
- mesocortical — Of or pertaining to the mesocortex.
- mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
- mesolecithal — centrolecithal.
- mesopotamian — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
- mesothelioma — a malignant tumor of the covering of the lung or the lining of the pleural and abdominal cavities, often associated with exposure to asbestos.
- message unit — a measure of the duration of and distance covered by local telephone calls, used by telephone companies as a basis for assessing service charges.
- metaanalysis — Alternative spelling of meta-analysis.
- 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).
- metacercaria — the encysted larva of a trematode, usually found in or on an aquatic intermediate host.