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12-letter words starting with m

  • marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
  • marin marais — Marin [ma-ran] /maˈrɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1656–1728, French viola da gamba player and composer.
  • marine borer — any mollusc or crustacean that lives usually in warm seas and destroys wood by boring into and eating it. The gribble and shipworm are the best known since they penetrate any wood in favourable water
  • 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.
  • maritime law — the body of law relating to maritime commerce and navigation, and to maritime matters generally.
  • mark out for — to select for or note as selected for
  • mark reading — the function performed by an optical mark reader
  • market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
  • market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
  • market maker — a dealer in securities on the London Stock Exchange who buys and sells as a principal and since 1986 can also deal with the public as a broker
  • market order — an order to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at the best price available.
  • market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
  • market rates — the current or accepted rates for a product or service
  • market share — the specific percentage of total industry sales of a particular product achieved by a single company in a given period of time.
  • market value — the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).
  • marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
  • marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
  • marking gage — any of various adjustable tools for marking a line parallel to a straight edge against which the tool is moved.
  • markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
  • markov model — (probability, simulation)   A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
  • marksmanship — a person who is skilled in shooting at a mark; a person who shoots well.
  • marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • 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.
  • marriage bed — the bed in which a married couple sleep together
  • marriageable — suitable or attractive for marriage: The handsome and successful young man was considered eminently marriageable.
  • married life — living as sb's spouse
  • married name — woman's surname after marriage
  • marseillaise — the French national anthem, written in 1792 by Rouget de Lisle.
  • marsh mallow — an Old World mallow, Althaea officinalis, having pink flowers, found in marshy places.
  • marsh orchid — any of various orchids of the genus Dactylorhiza, growing in damp places and having mostly purplish flowers
  • marsh's test — a test to detect minimal amounts of arsenic.
  • marshalltown — a city in central Iowa.
  • marshmallows — Plural form of marshmallow.
  • marshmallowy — Similar to a marshmallow.
  • marston moor — a former moor in NE England, west of York: Cromwell's victory over the Royalists 1644.
  • martempering — a quenching process used to harden austenitic steel.
  • martial arts — Often, martial arts. any of the traditional forms of Asian self-defense or combat that utilize physical skill and coordination without weapons, as karate, aikido, judo, or kung fu, often practiced as sport.
  • martinsville — a city in S Virginia.
  • marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
  • mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
  • masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
  • mashrebeeyah — meshrebeeyeh.
  • mashrebeeyeh — (in Islamic countries) an oriel screened by latticework.
  • 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.
  • maspar unity — A translator from UNITY to MPL by Martin Huber, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Version 1.0.
  • masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
  • mass balance — Mass balance is a consideration of the input, output, and distribution of a substance between streams in a process or stage.
  • mass funeral — a funeral held for several dead people at the same time
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