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

  • magic carpet — flying rug in fantasy stories
  • 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.
  • magniloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
  • magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
  • 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.
  • mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
  • malt vinegar — acidic condiment made from malted barley
  • managemental — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
  • manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
  • mao tse-tung — 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.
  • margrethe ii — born 1940, queen of Denmark since 1972.
  • martempering — a quenching process used to harden austenitic steel.
  • masking tape — an easily removed adhesive tape used temporarily for defining margins, protecting surfaces, etc., as when painting, and sometimes also for binding, sealing, or mending.
  • mass meeting — a large or general assembly to discuss or hear discussed some matter of common interest or concern: a mass meeting to protest the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
  • masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
  • mastersinger — Meistersinger (def 1).
  • mastigonemes — Plural form of mastigoneme.
  • mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
  • matrilineage — lineal descent traced through the female line.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
  • mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
  • melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
  • menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
  • mental image — sth imagined
  • mergenthaler — Ottmar [ot-mahr;; German awt-mahr] /ˈɒt mɑr;; German ˈɔt mɑr/ (Show IPA), 1854–99, U.S. inventor of the Linotype, born in Germany.
  • mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
  • mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
  • 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.
  • metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
  • metabolizing — Present participle of metabolize.
  • metagenomics — (genetics) The study of genomes recovered from environmental samples; especially the differentiation of genomes from multiple organisms or individuals, either in a symbiotic relationship, or at a crime scene.
  • metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
  • metalanguage — any language or symbolic system used to discuss, describe, or analyze another language or symbolic system.
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