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12-letter words containing m, e, n, a, r

  • interminably — incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
  • intermontane — located between mountains or mountain ranges: an intermontane lake.
  • intermundane — existing in the space between worlds or heavenly bodies: intermundane space.
  • inthrallment — Obsolete spelling of enthrallment.
  • intramundane — existing or occurring within the material world.
  • irritainment — Entertainment that annoys, embarrasses, or upsets more than or as much as it entertains, whether unintentionally or by design.
  • ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
  • jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime
  • jasmine rice — an aromatic, flavorful long-grain rice of Asia, especially Thailand.
  • journeywoman — The female equivalent of a journeyman.
  • julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
  • jumping hare — springhare.
  • jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury
  • katzenjammer — the discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover.
  • kolyma range — a mountain range in NE Russia, in NE Siberia, extending about 1100 km (700 miles) between the Kolyma River and the Sea of Okhotsk. Highest peak: 1862 m (6109 ft)
  • la mano nera — Black Hand (def 1).
  • lake mälaren — a lake in S Sweden, extending 121 km (75 miles) west from Stockholm, where it joins with an inlet of the Baltic Sea (the Saltsjön). Area: 1140 sq km (440 sq miles)
  • land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
  • large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
  • laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
  • leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
  • lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.
  • line manager — immediate supervisor
  • linear motor — an electric motor in which a movable part moves in a straight line, with power being supplied by a varying magnetic field set up by a fixed part of the system, as a metal rail on the ground.
  • 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.
  • longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
  • lunar module — the portion of the Apollo spacecraft in which two astronauts landed on the moon's surface and then returned to the orbiting command module. Abbreviation: LM.
  • machine word — word (def 10).
  • machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • macroeconomy — A large-scale economic system.
  • macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
  • macromineral — any mineral required in the diet in relatively large amounts, especially calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.
  • macronuclear — Of or pertaining to a macronucleus.
  • 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.
  • macrosegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
  • madeira vine — a herbaceous tropical vine, Anredera cordifolia, having shiny leaves and small, fragrant, white flowers.
  • maderization — the process whereby wine is heated and oxidized, resulting in a darker colour and an altered taste
  • magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
  • magnetograph — a recording magnetometer, used especially for recording variations in the earth's magnetic field.
  • magnetometer — an instrument for measuring the intensity of a magnetic field, especially the earth's magnetic field.
  • magnetometry — (physics) The measurement of magnetic fields (strength and direction etc).
  • magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
  • maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
  • mail merging — a software facility that can produce a large number of personalized letters by combining a file containing a list of names and addresses with one containing a single standard document
  • main bearing — one of the bearings in an internal combustion engine upon which the crankshaft rotates
  • mainstreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of mainstream.
  • mainstreamer — a member of the mainstream.
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