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12-letter words containing o, s, m, e

  • magpie goose — a black-and-white gooselike bird, Anseranas semipalmatus, of Australia, believed to be the most primitive waterfowl in existence.
  • major orders — the degree or grade of priesthood, diaconate, or subdiaconate.
  • make a noise — to talk a great deal or complain
  • 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.
  • maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
  • malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
  • malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
  • malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
  • manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
  • manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
  • mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
  • mantoux test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to an intracutaneous injection of tuberculin indicates a previous or current infection.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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
  • marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
  • 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.
  • mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • mauvaise foi — (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
  • meadow grass — any grass of the genus Poa, especially P. pratensis, the Kentucky bluegrass.
  • meadow mouse — any of numerous short-tailed rodents of the genus Microtus and allied genera, chiefly of fields and meadows in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
  • 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.
  • meddlesomely — In a meddlesome manner.
  • media person — a person who works in the mass media
  • mediatorship — the position of a mediator
  • mediocrities — the state or quality of being mediocre.
  • meeting post — a timber with a chamfer at the outer edge of a lock gate that fits against the meeting post of another lock gate.
  • meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
  • megamillions — Plural form of megamillion.
  • 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.
  • melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
  • melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
  • melanoblasts — Plural form of melanoblast.
  • melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
  • melanophores — Plural form of melanophore.
  • melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
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