12-letter words containing m, e, n, i, g, t
- incrementing — Present participle of increment.
- infringement — a breach or infraction, as of a law, right, or obligation; violation; transgression.
- ingeminating — Present participle of ingeminate.
- ingemination — Repetition; reduplication; reiteration.
- inseminating — Present participle of inseminate.
- intermeshing — That mesh between one another.
- intermingled — Simple past tense and past participle of intermingle.
- intermingles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermingle.
- intermitting — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
- interregnums — Plural form of interregnum.
- intersegment — Between segments.
- inveiglement — to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- latent image — an invisible image, produced on a sensitized emulsion by exposure to light, that will emerge in development.
- legitimating — Present participle of legitimate.
- legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- legitimising — Present participle of legitimise.
- legitimizing — Present participle of legitimize.
- light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
- line segment — segment (def 2b).
- logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
- lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- maginot line — a zone of heavy defensive fortifications erected by France along its eastern border in the years preceding World War II, but outflanked in 1940 when the German army attacked through Belgium.
- magnetic dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- magnetic ink — ink containing particles of a magnetic material used for printing characters for magnetic character recognition
- magnetically — By or as by, magnetism.
- magnetizable — susceptible to magnetization.
- magnetooptic — pertaining to the effect of magnetism upon the propagation of light.
- magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
- magnetotaxis — movement or orientation of an organism in response to a magnetic field.
- magniloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
- mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
- malt vinegar — acidic condiment made from malted barley
- martempering — a quenching process used to harden austenitic steel.
- masking tape — an easily removed adhesive tape used temporarily for defining margins, protecting surfaces, etc., as when painting, and sometimes also for binding, sealing, or mending.
- mass meeting — a large or general assembly to discuss or hear discussed some matter of common interest or concern: a mass meeting to protest the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
- masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
- mastersinger — Meistersinger (def 1).
- mastigonemes — Plural form of mastigoneme.
- matrilineage — lineal descent traced through the female line.
- meat grinder — machine: minces meat
- meat packing — the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.
- meeting post — a timber with a chamfer at the outer edge of a lock gate that fits against the meeting post of another lock gate.
- meeting rail — (in a double-hung window) the rail of each sash that meets a rail of the other when the window is closed.
- meeting room — venue where discussions are held
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- menstruating — to undergo menstruation.