12-letter words containing m, e, t, r
- marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
- marsh's test — a test to detect minimal amounts of arsenic.
- martempering — a quenching process used to harden austenitic steel.
- martinsville — a city in S Virginia.
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- 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 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.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- match-winner — a player who wins a sports match for his or her team, for example by scoring a goal
- 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.
- materialized — Simple past tense and past participle of materialize.
- materializer — One who materializes, or makes something material.
- materializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of materialize.
- materialness — The state of being material.
- matriarchate — a matriarchal system or community.
- matriarchies — Plural form of matriarchy.
- matricentred — Matricentric.
- matricentric — (of a family or society) Centering around the mother or mothers.
- matriculated — Be enrolled at a college or university.
- matriculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of matriculate.
- matrilateral — related through the mother, as to a maternal uncle.
- matrilineage — lineal descent traced through the female line.
- 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.
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- measurements — The action of measuring something.
- meat extract — a preparation containing the concentrated essence of meat
- meat grinder — machine: minces meat
- 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.
- media center — a library, usually in school, that contains and encourages the use of audiovisual media and associated equipment as well as books, periodicals, and the like.
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- mediocrities — the state or quality of being mediocre.
- medium strip — median strip.
- 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
- 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.