12-letter words containing m, e, t, a, s
- 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.
- market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
- market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
- market rates — the current or accepted rates for a product or service
- market share — the specific percentage of total industry sales of a particular product achieved by a single company in a given period of time.
- marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
- marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
- marsh's test — a test to detect minimal amounts of arsenic.
- 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.
- mass society — a society whose members are characterized by having segmentalized, impersonal relations, a high degree of physical and social mobility, a spectator relation to events, and a pronounced tendency to conform to external popular norms.
- massachusett — a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians of eastern Massachusetts.
- massotherapy — treatment by massage.
- mastectomies — Plural form of mastectomy.
- master alloy — an alloy rich in certain elements, used in small quantities as an additive to melts of alloyed metal.
- master baker — a baker who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- master class — a small class for advanced students, especially a class in performance skills conducted by a distinguished musician.
- 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.
- masterpieces — Plural form of masterpiece.
- mastersinger — Meistersinger (def 1).
- masterstroke — a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
- mastigonemes — Plural form of mastigoneme.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- 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.
- mate's rates — preferential rates of payment offered to a friend
- materialised — Simple past tense and past participle of materialise.
- materialises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of materialise.
- materialists — Plural form of materialist.
- materializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of materialize.
- materialness — The state of being material.
- matriarchies — Plural form of matriarchy.
- matriculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of matriculate.
- matter waves — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- 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.