12-letter words starting with me
- 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.
- melanochroic — Melanochroid
- melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
- melanophores — Plural form of melanophore.
- melanotropin — MSH.
- melliloquent — Speaking sweetly or harmoniously.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- melodramatic — of, like, or befitting melodrama.
- melon baller — a small cooking utensil with a handle and a rounded scoop, which you insert into a melon and twist to extract a ball of flesh
- melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- memento mori — (italics) Latin. remember that you must die.
- memorability — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- memorial day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
- memorialised — Simple past tense and past participle of memorialise.
- memorialists — Plural form of memorialist.
- memorialized — (US) Simple past tense and past participle of memorialize.
- memorializer — One who petitions by a memorial.
- memorializes — (US) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of memorialize.
- memorisation — Alternative spelling of memorization.
- memorization — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- memory smash — (jargon) A Xerox PARC term for writing to the location addressed by a dangling pointer.
- memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
- memory trace — engram.
- memory verse — a verse or passage from the Bible to be memorized, especially by members of a Sunday school.
- memphremagog — Lake, a lake on the boundary between the U.S. and Canada, between N Vermont and S Quebec. 30 miles (48 km) long.
- men-children — plural of man-child.