12-letter words containing m, e, a, t, d
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- malcontented — Malcontent.
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
- malimprinted — (of an animal or person) suffering from a defect in the behavioural process of imprinting, resulting in attraction to members of other species, fetishism, etc
- maltodextrin — a compound of dextrin and maltose, used as a food additive and in some health and beauty products.
- man-tailored — (of women's clothing) tailored in the general style and with the details of men's clothing. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
- mandibulated — Provided with mandibles adapted for biting; mandibulate.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- market order — an order to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at the best price available.
- masterminded — Simple past tense and past participle of mastermind.
- mastoid bone — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
- matabeleland — a region in Zimbabwe, formerly a province of Rhodesia, home to the Ndebele (Matabele).
- materialised — Simple past tense and past participle of materialise.
- materialized — Simple past tense and past participle of materialize.
- mathematized — Simple past tense and past participle of mathematize.
- matinee idol — a male actor, usually a leading man, idolized especially by female audiences.
- matricentred — Matricentric.
- matriculated — Be enrolled at a college or university.
- meadow pipit — a common European songbird, Anthus pratensis, with a pale brown speckled plumage: family Motacillidae (pipits and wagtails)
- means-tested — A grant or benefit that is means-tested varies in amount depending on a means test.
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- meat grinder — machine: minces meat
- media center — a library, usually in school, that contains and encourages the use of audiovisual media and associated equipment as well as books, periodicals, and the like.
- median point — centroid (def 2).
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
- medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
- meditational — Of, or pertaining to, meditation.
- meditatively — given to, characterized by, or indicative of meditation; contemplative.
- medium-dated — (of a gilt-edged security) having between five and fifteen years to run before redemption
- mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
- melodramatic — of, like, or befitting melodrama.
- metasediment — (petrology) A metamorphosed sedimentary rock.
- metastasised — Pathology. (of malignant cells or disease-producing organisms) to spread to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces.
- metastasized — Simple past tense and past participle of metastasize.
- metathesized — Simple past tense and past participle of metathesize.
- meter reader — a person who visits your house to read a gas or electricity meter
- meter-candle — lux. Abbreviation: mc.
- metered mail — mail on which the postage is printed directly on an envelope or label by a machine licensed by the postal service.
- method actor — actor who follows the Method
- methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
- middle latin — Medieval Latin
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- midlatitudes — Areas lying between 35 and 55 (or more broadly, between 30 and 60) degrees north or south of the equator.
- midwife toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans (family Discoglossidae), noted for its unusual breeding habits, in which mating occurs on land and the male broods the egg strings by wrapping them around his legs.
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.