12-letter words containing t, h, a, m
- klamath weed — the St.-John's-wort, Hypericum perforatum.
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- lachrymation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
- lachrymatory — of, relating to, or causing the shedding of tears.
- lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
- league match — a match played between teams in a league (as opposed to an international game)
- leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphoblasts — Plural form of lymphoblast.
- machairodont — having sabre-like teeth; sabre-toothed
- machicolated — Having machicolations.
- machinations — an act or instance of machinating.
- machine bolt — a threaded fastener, used with a nut for connecting metal parts, having a thread diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or more and a square or hexagonal head for tightening by a wrench.
- machine time — time spent using mechanical equipment
- machine tool — a power-operated machine, as a lathe, used for general cutting and shaping of metal and other substances.
- machtpolitik — power politics
- macintosh ii — (computer) (Mac II) A version of Apple's Macintosh personal computer, released in March 1987, using the Motorola 68020 CPU, which runs at a higher clock rate than the Motorola 68000 used in the original Mac. The Mac II has a full 32-bit data bus instead of a 16-bit bus. Mac II models have built-in 40 to 160 megabyte hard disks and can take up to eight megabytes of RAM (and more as denser memory chips arive). The Mac II was the first Macintosh to provide a colour graphics option, with up to 256 colours on screen at a 640x480 resolution. Mac II models are designed for expandability with three (Macintosh IIcx) or six (II & IIx) built-in NuBus expansion slots for additional peripheral and coprocessor boards.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- macroweather — Longer term average weather, covering period of length between that of weather and climate.
- magnetograph — a recording magnetometer, used especially for recording variations in the earth's magnetic field.
- magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
- 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.
- make history — do sth of great significance
- make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
- make the cut — to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- manhattanite — a native or inhabitant of the borough of Manhattan.
- manhattanize — to alter the architectural appearance of (a city) by the construction of skyscrapers and high-rise buildings
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- mapplethorpe — Robert, 1946–89, U.S. photographer.
- margrethe ii — born 1940, queen of Denmark since 1972.
- market share — the specific percentage of total industry sales of a particular product achieved by a single company in a given period of time.
- marsh's test — a test to detect minimal amounts of arsenic.
- marshalltown — a city in central Iowa.
- massachusett — a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians of eastern Massachusetts.
- massotherapy — treatment by massage.
- 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.
- match-fixing — the act of arranging the outcome of a sports match prior to its being played
- match-winner — a player who wins a sports match for his or her team, for example by scoring a goal
- mathematical — of, relating to, or of the nature of mathematics: mathematical truth.
- mathematized — Simple past tense and past participle of mathematize.
- matopo hills — the granite hills south of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where Cecil Rhodes chose to be buried
- matriarchate — a matriarchal system or community.