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12-letter words starting with m

  • madonna lily — a lily, Lilium candidum, having clusters of pure white, bell-shaped flowers.
  • madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
  • magic bullet — something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.
  • magic carpet — flying rug in fantasy stories
  • magic circle — the British association of magicians, traditionally forbidden to reveal any of the secrets of their art
  • magic cookie — 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operation; a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way. E.g. on non-Unix operating systems with a non-byte-stream model of files, the result of "ftell" may be a magic cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be passed to "fseek", but not operated on in any meaningful way. The phrase "it hands you a magic cookie" means it returns a result whose contents are not defined but which can be passed back to the same or some other program later. 2. An in-band code for changing graphic rendition (e.g. inverse video or underlining) or performing other control functions. Some older terminals would leave a blank on the screen corresponding to mode-change magic cookies; this was also called a glitch (or occasionally a "turd"; compare mouse droppings). See also cookie.
  • magic marker — felt-tip pen
  • magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
  • 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.
  • maginot line — a zone of heavy defensive fortifications erected by France along its eastern border in the years preceding World War II, but outflanked in 1940 when the German army attacked through Belgium.
  • magistracies — Plural form of magistracy.
  • magnet steel — steel used for the manufacture of permanent magnets, often having a high cobalt content and smaller amounts of nickel, aluminium, or copper
  • magnetic dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
  • magnetic ink — ink containing particles of a magnetic material used for printing characters for magnetic character recognition
  • magnetically — By or as by, magnetism.
  • magnetizable — susceptible to magnetization.
  • magnetograph — a recording magnetometer, used especially for recording variations in the earth's magnetic field.
  • magnetometer — an instrument for measuring the intensity of a magnetic field, especially the earth's magnetic field.
  • magnetometry — (physics) The measurement of magnetic fields (strength and direction etc).
  • magnetooptic — pertaining to the effect of magnetism upon the propagation of light.
  • 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.
  • magnificence — the quality or state of being magnificent; splendor; grandeur; sublimity: the magnificence of snow-covered mountains; the magnificence of his achievements.
  • magniloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
  • magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
  • magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
  • magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
  • magnus annus — the Great Year: a cycle of years, usually a thousand, that begins with a Golden Age, steadily deteriorates, and ends with a universal catastrophe, either a fire or a flood.
  • 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.
  • magpie goose — a black-and-white gooselike bird, Anseranas semipalmatus, of Australia, believed to be the most primitive waterfowl in existence.
  • magyarorszag — Hungarian name of Hungary.
  • maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
  • maidenliness — The state or condition of being maidenly.
  • maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
  • mail carrier — a person, usually employed by the post office, who delivers mail.
  • mail gateway — (messaging)   A machine that connects two or more electronic mail systems (including dissimilar mail systems) and transfers messages between them. Sometimes the mapping and translation can be quite complex, and it generally requires a store and forward scheme whereby the message is received from one system completely before it is transmitted to the next system, after suitable translations.
  • mail merging — a software facility that can produce a large number of personalized letters by combining a file containing a list of names and addresses with one containing a single standard document
  • mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
  • mailing list — a list of addresses to which mail, especially advertisements, can be sent.
  • mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
  • main bearing — one of the bearings in an internal combustion engine upon which the crankshaft rotates
  • main-topmast — the mast next above the main lower mast.
  • main-topsail — a topsail set on the mainmast.
  • mains supply — electricity, water, or gas supplied to a building through wires or pipes
  • mainstreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of mainstream.
  • mainstreamer — a member of the mainstream.
  • maintainable — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
  • maintainence — Misspelling of maintenance.
  • maintenances — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
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