12-letter words containing m, a, r, t, b
- marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
- master baker — a baker who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
- masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
- masturbation — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- masturbatory — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- memorability — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
- metabotropic — Describing a neurotransmitter or cell receptor whose action is mediated by metabolic functions (e.g. enzyme activation).
- metacinnabar — a polymorph of cinnabar, black mercuric sulfide, HgS.
- metal lumber — a brand of sheet metal pressed and welded together to form joists and studding.
- microhabitat — an extremely localized, small-scale environment, as a tree stump or a dead animal.
- microtubular — Of or pertaining to microtubules.
- millilambert — a unit of luminance equal to one thousandth of a lambert. Abbreviation: mL.
- misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- miserabilist — One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
- mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
- montebrasite — a mineral, lithium aluminum hydroxyl phosphate, LiAlPO 4 (OH), isomorphous with amblygonite, used as an ore of lithium.
- monterey bay — an inlet of the Pacific in W California. 26 miles (42 km) long.
- mortar board — A mortar board is a stiff black cap which has a flat square top with a bunch of threads attached to it. In Britain, mortar boards are sometimes worn on formal occasions by university students and teachers. In the United States, mortar boards are worn by students at graduation ceremonies at high schools, colleges, and universities.
- mortarboards — Plural form of mortarboard.
- motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
- motorboating — a boat propelled by an inboard or outboard motor.
- multilobular — having several or many lobules.
- multitubular — Having many tubes.
- mustard bath — a supposed cure for aches, tired muscles, colds and fevers, consisting of bathing in hot water infused with mustard seeds
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- musturbation — (psychology) The compulsive insistence that things ought to be a particular way.
- mycobacteria — Plural form of mycobacterium.
- myrtle beach — a town in E South Carolina.
- namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
- nimbostratus — a cloud of a class characterized by a formless layer that is almost uniformly dark gray; a rain cloud of the layer type, of low altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2440 meters).
- northumbrian — of or relating to Northumbria, Northumberland, or the inhabitants or dialect of either.
- not-a-number — (mathematics) (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
- number plate — vehicle's registration panel
- numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- permeability — the property or state of being permeable.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rattail comb — a comb for the hair having a narrow, pointed handle used in styling the hair.
- rubber match — rubber2 (def 4)
- rubber stamp — handheld printing tool
- rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.