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12-letter words containing g, i, t

  • long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
  • longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
  • longipennate — (of birds) having long slender wings or feathers
  • longirostral — (of birds) having a long beak
  • longitudinal — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
  • longstanding — existing or occurring for a long time: a longstanding feud.
  • loosefitting — fitting loosely
  • lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
  • lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
  • lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
  • lysogenicity — the quality or condition of being lysogenic
  • macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • magnetooptic — pertaining to the effect of magnetism upon the propagation of light.
  • 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.
  • magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
  • magnus hitch — a knot similar to a clove hitch but taking one more turn around the object to which the line is being bent; rolling hitch.
  • 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 list — a list of addresses to which mail, especially advertisements, can be sent.
  • mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
  • malacologist — A person who studies molluscs, who specializes in malacology.
  • malt vinegar — acidic condiment made from malted barley
  • manipulating — Present participle of manipulate.
  • 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.
  • mass wasting — downhill movement of soil and rock fragments induced by gravity.
  • masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
  • mastersinger — Meistersinger (def 1).
  • mastigonemes — Plural form of mastigoneme.
  • mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.
  • mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
  • masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
  • match-fixing — the act of arranging the outcome of a sports match prior to its being played
  • 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 post — a timber with a chamfer at the outer edge of a lock gate that fits against the meeting post of another lock gate.
  • meeting rail — (in a double-hung window) the rail of each sash that meets a rail of the other when the window is closed.
  • meeting room — venue where discussions are held
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