12-letter words containing m, e, o, r, a
- major league — The major leagues are groups of professional sports teams that compete against each other, especially in American baseball.
- major orders — the degree or grade of priesthood, diaconate, or subdiaconate.
- major planet — planet (def 1a).
- major tenace — the ace and queen of a suit held by one player.
- major-league — Sports. of, relating to, or characteristic of the major leagues.
- major-planet — Astronomy. Also called major planet. any of the eight large heavenly bodies revolving about the sun and shining by reflected light: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, in the order of their proximity to the sun. Until 2006, Pluto was classified as a planet ninth in order from the sun; it has been reclassified as a dwarf planet. a similar body revolving about a star other than the sun. (formerly) a celestial body moving in the sky, as distinguished from a fixed star, applied also to the sun and moon.
- majorleaguer — either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
- make history — do sth of great significance
- make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- maltodextrin — a compound of dextrin and maltose, used as a food additive and in some health and beauty products.
- malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
- man-tailored — (of women's clothing) tailored in the general style and with the details of men's clothing. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
- manoeuvering — Present participle of manoeuver.
- manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- māori warden — a person appointed to exercise advisory and minor disciplinary powers in Māori communities
- mapplethorpe — Robert, 1946–89, U.S. photographer.
- mare humorum — (Sea of Moisture) a dark plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 45,000 sq. mi. (117,000 sq. km).
- mare nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
- mare vaporum — (Sea of Vapors) a dark plain in the first quadrant and near the center of the face of the moon: about 39,000 sq. mi. (101,000 sq. km).
- marie louise — 1791–1847, 2nd wife of Napoleon I: empress of France; duchess of Parma 1816–31 (daughter of Francis II of Austria; mother of Napoleon II).
- marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
- marine borer — any mollusc or crustacean that lives usually in warm seas and destroys wood by boring into and eating it. The gribble and shipworm are the best known since they penetrate any wood in favourable water
- marine corps — a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces trained for land, sea, and air combat, typically for land combat in conjunction with an amphibious or airborne landing, and whose commandant is responsible to the secretary of the navy.
- marionettist — A puppeteer who controls a marionette.
- market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
- market order — an order to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at the best price available.
- markov model — (probability, simulation) A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
- marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- massotherapy — treatment by massage.
- master alloy — an alloy rich in certain elements, used in small quantities as an additive to melts of alloyed metal.
- 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.
- masterstroke — a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- meadow grass — any grass of the genus Poa, especially P. pratensis, the Kentucky bluegrass.
- measure zero — the property of a set of points for which, given any small number, there exists a set of intervals such that each point of the given set is contained in at least one of the intervals and such that, essentially, the combined length of the intervals is less than the small number.
- 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.
- medal-holder — a person who has won a medal
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
- 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.
- melanochroic — Melanochroid
- melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
- melanophores — Plural form of melanophore.