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12-letter words containing s, t, a, g, n

  • macrosegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
  • magnet steel — steel used for the manufacture of permanent magnets, often having a high cobalt content and smaller amounts of nickel, aluminium, or copper
  • magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
  • magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
  • magnetotaxis — movement or orientation of an organism in response to a magnetic field.
  • magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
  • magnus hitch — a knot similar to a clove hitch but taking one more turn around the object to which the line is being bent; rolling hitch.
  • mailing list — a list of addresses to which mail, especially advertisements, can be sent.
  • manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
  • 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.
  • 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 wasting — downhill movement of soil and rock fragments induced by gravity.
  • masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
  • mastersinger — Meistersinger (def 1).
  • mastigonemes — Plural form of mastigoneme.
  • masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
  • 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.
  • mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
  • message unit — a measure of the duration of and distance covered by local telephone calls, used by telephone companies as a basis for assessing service charges.
  • metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
  • metagenomics — (genetics) The study of genomes recovered from environmental samples; especially the differentiation of genomes from multiple organisms or individuals, either in a symbiotic relationship, or at a crime scene.
  • metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
  • metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
  • migrationist — a person who considers it important for species of animals and plants to migrate for the purposes of distribution and evolution
  • mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
  • ming dynasty — the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644
  • misalignment — improperly aligned.
  • miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
  • misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • mooring mast — the mast or tower to which a dirigible is moored.
  • morning star — a bright planet, especially Venus, seen in the east immediately before sunrise.
  • mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
  • multicasting — the act or process of a person or thing that casts.
  • multitasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • mutable sign — any of the four astrological signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, that are grouped together because of their placement at the end of the seasons and characterized by the attribute of adaptability to circumstances.
  • nai register — (in Britain) a list of children deemed to be at risk of abuse or injury from their parents or guardians, compiled and held by a local authority, area health authority, or NSPCC Special Unit
  • narragansett — a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquian family formerly located in Rhode Island but now almost extinct.
  • naturalising — Present participle of naturalise.
  • naughty bits — genitals
  • naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
  • nauseatingly — causing sickness of the stomach; nauseous.
  • near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
  • negativeness — The characteristic of being negative; negativity.
  • negativistic — a negative or pessimistic attitude.
  • negativities — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
  • negotiations — Plural form of negotiation.
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