12-letter words starting with m
- medal-winner — a person who has won a medal or medals
- meddlesomely — In a meddlesome manner.
- media center — a library, usually in school, that contains and encourages the use of audiovisual media and associated equipment as well as books, periodicals, and the like.
- media circus — excessive news coverage
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- media player — Digital Technology. a portable electronic device or a software program that plays and stores digital audio or video files in various formats.
- mediaevalism — Alternative spelling of medievalism.
- median nerve — a nerve that carries impulses between a part of the body and the central nervous system
- median plane — a vertical plane that divides an organism into symmetrical halves.
- median point — centroid (def 2).
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- medical care — the professional attention of medical practitioners
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- medical ward — a hospital ward in which patients are being treated by drugs rather than surgery
- medicalizing — Present participle of medicalize.
- medicine box — a small box used to hold medicines
- medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
- medicine man — (among North American Indians and some other aboriginal peoples) a person believed to possess magical or supernatural powers; shaman.
- medico-legal — pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine.
- medievalisms — Plural form of medievalism.
- medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
- mediocrities — the state or quality of being mediocre.
- meditational — Of, or pertaining to, meditation.
- meditatively — given to, characterized by, or indicative of meditation; contemplative.
- medium strip — median strip.
- medium-dated — (of a gilt-edged security) having between five and fifteen years to run before redemption
- medium-sized — neither very large nor very small: a medium-sized house.
- medium-sweet — (esp of wines) fairly sweet
- medley relay — Track. a relay race in which individual members of a team usually run an unequal portion of the total distance. Compare distance medley, sprint medley.
- meet halfway — to compromise with
- meet up with — see socially
- meeting post — a timber with a chamfer at the outer edge of a lock gate that fits against the meeting post of another lock gate.
- meeting rail — (in a double-hung window) the rail of each sash that meets a rail of the other when the window is closed.
- meeting room — venue where discussions are held
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- megacephalic — macrocephalic.
- megachurches — Plural form of megachurch.
- megalecithal — having a large amount of yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
- megalomaniac — a person afflicted with megalomania.
- megamillions — Plural form of megamillion.
- 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.
- meker burner — a gas burner similar to the Bunsen burner but producing a hotter flame by virtue of having at its mouth a metal screen to allow a more intimate mixture of air and gas.
- mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
- melancholiac — affected with melancholia.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- melanization — the process of melanizing, or the state of being melanized
- melanoblasts — Plural form of melanoblast.