12-letter words containing m, a, s, e, r, u
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- half measure — If someone refers to policies or actions as half measures, they are critical of them because they think that they are not forceful enough and are therefore of little value.
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- horse manure — horse's excrement
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- housemasters — Plural form of housemaster.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- immatureness — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.
- immaturities — Plural form of immaturity.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- in a measure — to an extent
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- insectariums — Plural form of insectarium.
- instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
- leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
- litmus paper — a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- lumbersexual — a man whose style of dress and appearance is reminiscent of the ruggedly masculine stereotype of the lumberjack, as in wearing plaid shirts and having a beard.
- macaberesque — resembling or suggestive of the danse macabre; macabre
- macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- 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.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
- manicure set — a set of small tools designed for trimming and caring for the nails
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
- marcellus ii — (Marcello Cervini) 1501–55, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1555.
- marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- mare clausum — a body of navigable water under the sole jurisdiction of a nation.
- mare crisium — (Sea of Crises) a dark plain in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 66,000 sq. mi. (170,000 sq. km).
- mare nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
- mare sirenum — (Sea of Sirens) an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- marie louise — 1791–1847, 2nd wife of Napoleon I: empress of France; duchess of Parma 1816–31 (daughter of Francis II of Austria; mother of Napoleon II).
- market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation