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12-letter words containing m, x

  • maximization — to increase to the greatest possible amount or degree: to look for ways of maximizing profit.
  • maximum card — a picture postcard to which a stamp can be affixed on the picture side, after which it can be cancelled by the appropriate postal service.
  • meat extract — a preparation containing the concentrated essence of meat
  • medicine box — a small box used to hold medicines
  • mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
  • methohexital — a barbiturate anesthetic, used in its sodium form, C 1 4 H 1 7 N 2 NaO 3 , for induction of general anesthesia or for anesthesia of short duration.
  • methotrexate — a toxic folic acid analogue, C 2 0 H 2 2 N 8 O 5 , that inhibits cellular reproduction, used primarily in the treatment of psoriasis and certain cancers and as an immunosuppressive agent.
  • methoxychlor — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 6 H 1 5 Cl 3 O 2 , used as an insecticide.
  • metro-sexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
  • metrosexuals — Plural form of metrosexual.
  • mexican jade — Mexican onyx artificially colored green.
  • mexican onyx — a translucent, banded variety of calcite, used for ornamental and decorative pieces.
  • mexican wave — If a crowd of people do a Mexican wave, each person in the crowd stands up and puts their arms in the air after the person to one side of them, creating a continuous wave-like motion through the crowd.
  • miller index — one of three integers giving the orientation and position of the face of a crystal in terms of the reciprocals, in lowest terms, of the intercepts of the face with each axis of the crystal.
  • misery index — an unofficial indication of a nation's economic health, derived by adding the percentage rate of inflation to the percentage of unemployed workers: With inflation running at 15 percent and unemployment at 8 percent, the misery index is 23 percent.
  • mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
  • mixed number — a number consisting of a whole number and a fraction or decimal, as 4½ or 4.5.
  • mixing ratio — the ratio of the mass of water vapor in the air to the mass of the dry air, a measure of atmospheric humidity.
  • mixing valve — a valve receiving water from both a hot-water and a cold-water line and controlling the relative amount of water admitted from each.
  • mixobarbaric — relating to a people who have both Greek and non-Greek ancestry
  • money expert — someone knowledgeable about money, esp ways to save money
  • morphallaxis — Biology. the regeneration of a destroyed body part by the reorganization of its remaining cells.
  • morphosyntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
  • motor cortex — the region of the cerebral cortex concerned with transmitting impulses to the voluntary muscles.
  • multiplexers — Plural form of multiplexer.
  • multiplexing — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
  • myxedematous — a condition characterized by thickening of the skin, blunting of the senses and intellect, and labored speech, associated with hypothyroidism.
  • myxomycetous — of or relating to a slime mold.
  • nuxi problem — (data, architecture)   /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
  • over-complex — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
  • oxford comma — a comma between the final items in a list, often preceding the word 'and' or 'or', such as the final comma in the list newspapers, magazines, and books
  • oxford frame — a frame for a picture, mirror, etc., consisting of four straight pieces whose ends project beyond the corners.
  • oxidant smog — photochemical smog.
  • pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
  • pax vobiscum — peace be with you
  • phlox family — the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
  • pick 'n' mix — Pick 'n' mix is used to describe a way of getting a collection of things together by choosing a number of different ones.
  • pick and mix — a selection of sweets from which the customer can choose, paid for by weight
  • plagioclimax — the climax stage of a community, influenced by man or some other outside factor
  • pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • premaxillary — one of a pair of bones of the upper jaw of vertebrates, situated in front of and between the maxillary bones.
  • proximities' — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
  • pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
  • rich mixture — A rich mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing an excessive proportion of fuel.
  • semiflexible — moderately or somewhat flexible.
  • serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
  • sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
  • sixth former — student: 16-18
  • sixty-fourmo — a book size (about 2 × 3 inches; 5 × 7 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 64 leaves or 128 pages.
  • submaxillary — of or relating to the lower jaw or lower jawbone.
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