12-letter words containing m, e, n, s, t
- lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
- luminosities — Plural form of luminosity.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- macrosegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
- magnet steel — steel used for the manufacture of permanent magnets, often having a high cobalt content and smaller amounts of nickel, aluminium, or copper
- magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
- magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
- magnetotaxis — movement or orientation of an organism in response to a magnetic field.
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- mainstreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of mainstream.
- mainstreamer — a member of the mainstream.
- maintenances — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
- majesticness — The quality of being majestic.
- make a stand — to take a position for defense or opposition
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
- manicure set — a set of small tools designed for trimming and caring for the nails
- manifestness — The quality or state of being manifest or obvious.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
- mantoux test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to an intracutaneous injection of tuberculin indicates a previous or current infection.
- manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
- mao tse-tung — 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.
- mare nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
- marionettist — A puppeteer who controls a marionette.
- martinsville — a city in S Virginia.
- 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.
- master mason — (often initial capital letters) a Freemason who has reached the third degree.
- master point — a point awarded to a bridge player who has won or placed in an officially recognized tournament.
- master print — an original copy of a cinema film that can be used to produce other copies
- masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
- masterliness — The quality of being masterly.
- masterminded — Simple past tense and past participle of mastermind.
- mastersinger — Meistersinger (def 1).
- mastigonemes — Plural form of mastigoneme.
- 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.
- materialness — The state of being material.
- 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.
- measurements — The action of measuring something.
- mechatronics — The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering for the study of automata from an engineering perspective and the control of advanced hybrid systems.
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- 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.
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- 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.
- melanoblasts — Plural form of melanoblast.
- melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.