12-letter words containing c, h, e, m
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- machine time — time spent using mechanical equipment
- machine tool — a power-operated machine, as a lathe, used for general cutting and shaping of metal and other substances.
- machine word — word (def 10).
- machine-made — made or constructed by machine
- machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- macroweather — Longer term average weather, covering period of length between that of weather and climate.
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
- make the cut — to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds
- manna lichen — any of several crustose lichens of the genus Lecanora, especially L. esculenta, found in the African and Arabian deserts, used for food by humans and other animals.
- massachusett — a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians of eastern Massachusetts.
- match-winner — a player who wins a sports match for his or her team, for example by scoring a goal
- mathematical — of, relating to, or of the nature of mathematics: mathematical truth.
- matriarchate — a matriarchal system or community.
- matriarchies — Plural form of matriarchy.
- mechanically — having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
- mechanicians — Plural form of mechanician.
- mechanizable — Capable of being mechanized.
- 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.
- mechlin lace — a fine bobbin lace with raised cord, originally made in Mechlin.
- medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
- megacephalic — macrocephalic.
- megachurches — Plural form of megachurch.
- megalecithal — having a large amount of yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- melancholiac — affected with melancholia.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- melanochroic — Melanochroid
- men-children — plural of man-child.
- merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandized — Simple past tense and past participle of merchandize.
- merchandizer — Alternative spelling of merchandiser.
- merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- mesolecithal — centrolecithal.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- metaphorical — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
- metathetical — (linguistics) exhibiting metathesis.
- metathoracic — Of or pertaining to the metathorax.