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12-letter words containing m, e, t, a, c, n

  • nychthemeral — relating to a nychthemeron or to the changes or differences, specifically those relating to day and night, that occur within this span
  • omnidistance — the distance between an omnirange station and a receiver.
  • on the march — If a group of soldiers are on the march, they are marching somewhere.
  • onomatopoeic — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
  • outplacement — counseling and assistance in finding a new job, provided by a company for an employee who has been or is about to be dismissed.
  • panspermatic — relating to panspermia
  • paramagnetic — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
  • parchmentize — to treat (paper or the like) so that it resembles parchment.
  • payment card — A payment card is a plastic card which you use like a credit card, but which takes the money directly from your bank account.
  • photomachine — a machine that prints copies of digital photographs
  • pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
  • pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
  • pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
  • quantum cell — (electronics, computing)   (Or "quantum dot cell") A structure comprising four quantum dots arranged in a square, with two diagonally opposed dots containing electron charges. One diagonal containing charges is arbitrarily defined as representing a value of '1', the other as '0'. In a five-dot cell, the fifth, central dot contains no charge. See also: quantum cell wire, quantum-dot cellular automata.
  • race meeting — A race meeting is an occasion when a series of horse races are held at the same place, often during a period of several days.
  • racemization — the conversion of an optically active substance into an optically inactive mixture of equal amounts of the dextrorotatory and levorotatory forms.
  • raman effect — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
  • ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
  • re-enactment — the act of enacting.
  • readmittance — the act or process of admitting someone or something again
  • reattachment — connecting or fastening again
  • recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • rejectamenta — things that have been thrown away as worthless
  • remonstrance — an act or instance of remonstrating.
  • return match — sport: second game between same teams
  • rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
  • romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
  • sacramentals — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • sacramentary — a sacramentarian
  • san clemente — a town in S California.
  • scene master — (on a switchboard) a master switch that controls several lighting circuits.
  • scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
  • sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
  • seismonastic — of or relating to seismonasty
  • semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
  • semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
  • semimonastic — somewhat monastic; monastic in certain respects
  • slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
  • somatotensic — (of certain plants that are eaten as food) restoring equilibrium
  • somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
  • stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
  • tape machine — a tape recorder.
  • team captain — the captain of a sporting team
  • technomaniac — a person with an obsessional enthusiasm for technology
  • the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
  • the-american — a novel (1877) by Henry James.
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