12-letter words containing g, e, m, c
- 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.
- magistracies — Plural form of magistracy.
- 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.
- magnetooptic — pertaining to the effect of magnetism upon the propagation of light.
- magnificence — the quality or state of being magnificent; splendor; grandeur; sublimity: the magnificence of snow-covered mountains; the magnificence of his achievements.
- malignancies — Plural form of malignancy.
- 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.
- mcleod gauge — a device for determining very low gas pressures by manometrically measuring the pressure of a sample after its compression to a known fraction of its original volume.
- 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.
- medicalizing — Present participle of medicalize.
- medico-legal — pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine.
- megacephalic — macrocephalic.
- megachurches — Plural form of megachurch.
- megalecithal — having a large amount of yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
- megalomaniac — a person afflicted with megalomania.
- meningococci — Plural form of meningococcus.
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- 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.
- metallogenic — relating to metallogeny
- metalorganic — (chemistry) organometallic.
- metamagnetic — (physics) Describing the transition from an antiferromagnetic to a ferromagnetic state.
- meteorologic — Relating to meteorology; meteorological.
- metrological — the science of weights and measures.
- michelangelo — (Michelangelo Buonarroti) 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
- microblogger — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
- microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
- microecology — the ecology of a microhabitat.
- microgranite — an igneous rock with an identical composition and mineral content to granite, but having a finer texture
- microgripper — (engineering) A microscopic device used to grasp and manipulate microscale objects safely.
- microgrooves — Plural form of microgroove.
- microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- micromanaged — Simple past tense and past participle of micromanage.
- micromanager — One who micromanages.
- microsegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by juncture.
- microsurgeon — a person who performs microsurgery
- microsurgery — any of various surgical procedures performed under magnification and with small specialized instruments, permitting very delicate operations, as the reconnection of severed blood vessels and nerves.
- middle congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- miracle drug — wonder drug.
- miscarriages — Plural form of miscarriage.
- miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
- miscegenetic — Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- misdirecting — Present participle of misdirect.
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.