12-letter words containing s, g, r
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
- luxury goods — expensive non-essential items
- macrogametes — Plural form of macrogamete.
- macroglossia — Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.
- macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
- macrosegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
- magic square — a square containing integers arranged in an equal number of rows and columns so that the sum of the integers in any row, column, or diagonal is the same.
- magistracies — Plural form of magistracy.
- magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
- magyarorszag — Hungarian name of Hungary.
- maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
- manila grass — a compact, shade-tolerant, turf-forming grass, Zoysia matrella, of southeastern Asia, having stiff leaves and flowering spikelets.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
- marginal sea — water that lies alongside a state, falls under its authority, and extends about 3½ statute miles (6 kilometers) from the coast.
- marginalised — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- marginalises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marginalise.
- marginalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marginalize.
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- marram grass — a grass, Ammophila arenaria, having matted, creeping rhizomes, grown on sandy shores of Europe, North America, and Australia to bind the sand.
- masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
- mastersinger — Meistersinger (def 1).
- mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
- matto grosso — Mato Grosso.
- meadow grass — any grass of the genus Poa, especially P. pratensis, the Kentucky bluegrass.
- megachurches — Plural form of megachurch.
- 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.
- melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
- menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
- mesabi range — a range of low hills in NE Minnesota, noted for major iron-ore deposits mined by the open-pit method.
- mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
- messageboard — Alternative spelling of message board.
- messeigneurs — plural of Monseigneur.
- metallurgist — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- meterologist — Misspelling of meteorologist.
- methysergide — an ergot alkaloid derivative, C 2 1 H 2 7 N 3 O 2 , used in the prophylaxis and treatment of migraine and cluster headaches.
- microgrooves — Plural form of microgroove.
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- microsegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by juncture.
- microsurgeon — a person who performs microsurgery
- microsurgery — any of various surgical procedures performed under magnification and with small specialized instruments, permitting very delicate operations, as the reconnection of severed blood vessels and nerves.
- migrationist — a person who considers it important for species of animals and plants to migrate for the purposes of distribution and evolution