12-letter words containing m, a, t, g, r, s
- hamstringing — Present participle of hamstring.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- macrogametes — Plural form of macrogamete.
- macrosegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
- magistracies — Plural form of magistracy.
- magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
- mastersinger — Meistersinger (def 1).
- 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.
- matto grosso — Mato Grosso.
- 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.
- melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
- menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
- mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
- metallurgist — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- migrationist — a person who considers it important for species of animals and plants to migrate for the purposes of distribution and evolution
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
- miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- mooring mast — the mast or tower to which a dirigible is moored.
- morning star — a bright planet, especially Venus, seen in the east immediately before sunrise.
- paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
- phragmoplast — the cytoplasmic structure that forms at the equator of the spindle after the chromosomes have divided during the anaphase of plant mitosis, and that initiates cell division.
- postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
- pragmaticism — the pragmatist philosophy of C. S. Peirce, chiefly a theory of meaning: so called by him to distinguish it from the pragmatism of William James.
- pragmaticist — a follower of the doctrine of pragmatism
- reassignment — something assigned, as a particular task or duty: She completed the assignment and went on to other jobs.
- rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
- seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
- steering arm — the part of a vehicle's chassis that directs the input from the steering box
- steinamanger — German name of Szombathely.
- stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
- storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
- straight man — an entertainer who plays the part of a foil for a comic partner.
- straight-arm — Football. to push (a potential tackler) away by holding the arm out straight; stiff-arm.
- streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.