12-Letter Words Containing M

Promises have produced too much stress

Excessive stress

Excessive underlining

Excessively emphatic.

ENAMORED enamor

Take too seriously.

Rate too highly

Value too highly

Too well known

Overgarment

Overinform

MANAGING manage

MANNERED having manners

Subdued Balls and Miliband welcoming upright head of state

Subdued

Overmatch

MATURITY the state of being {mature=adj}

MEDICATE to treat with medicine

Overmodest

Unrealistically high view of one's prospects

OPTIMIST one who exhibits optimism

ORNAMENT to {decorate=v}

Overpayment

Overprogram

PROMISED promise

Overpromise

PROMOTED promote

Overpromote

Fail to explain fully enough

Crudely dumb down

Make too easy

Overtrim

Overtrump

Irresistible - huge

Completely overpowering

Completely defeating

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

A writer of palindromes.

Pamphleteer

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

See cholecystokinin .

Pandemonium

Marcel Marceau and others.

Papermaking

""A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.""

Parallelism

Weakly attracted by poles

Paramedical

""PARAMETER A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.""

PARAMETRIZE

Parametrize

Aim IRA partly devised for one of its members

(Member) of organised armed civilian combat group

Member of armed anti-government organisation

Paranormal

English word

""A degenerative nervous disorder occurring mostly in persons older than 60 years, characterized in advanced stages by rhythmic muscular tremors, especially in the hands, and by rigidity of movement, a drooping posture, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression; the term designates a set of symptoms, and the underlying disease causing these symptoms is most commonly Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).""

Small-mindedness

Lamia's Orphic new version betrays narrow outlook

Paronomasia

Word play; punning.

Penny-pinching

Tight-fisted

Cheese-paring

Pastoralism

Paternalism

Peacemaking

Pelargonium

""A device for measuring the penetrating power of radiation, especially x-rays.""

Pentamidine

""PERAMBULATE To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.""

Perambulate

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

Operations that mean forceps are designed to clamp top of retina

""Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising.""

English word

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

Permanency

A salt of permanganic acid.

The quality or state of being permeable.

In a permissive manner.

Pl. permittivities A measure of the ability of a material to resist the formation of an electric field within it.

Permutation

Personalism

Non-PC study of drugs (wordplay)

The science or study of drugs

The science or study of drugstore drugs

American dopes lie on the sheets in this

Stock of drugs

Male - no, males - with exterior that's friendly to a remarkable extent

""An adrenergic blocking agent, C 17 H 19 N 3 O, used especially in the diagnosis and treatment of pheochromocytoma.""

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

Lack of culture

Indifference to culture and the arts

Smug conventionality

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

Phlebotomy

One who practiced phlebotomy.

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Phonemicist

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

Phosphonium

Person associated with (-ist)

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

""(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (tr) to set (type matter) by photocomposition photocomposer   n""

Of or relating to the energy of light.

Photomap

Photometry

Composite picture

Photomosaic

""(Chemistry) a polymeric material that is sensitive to light: used in printing plates, microfilms, etc.""

Photosystem

The tendency of growing plant organs to move or curve under the influence of light. In ordinary use the term is practically synonymous with heliotropism.heliotropism.

English word

Phrasemaker

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Phycomycete

Physicalism

Pl. physiognomies a. The art of judging human character from facial features.

The chemistry of plants.

Phytochrome

See plant hormone .

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

Mate pointing out blemish (wordplay)

Natural colouring

Sow farmers get on at it in end for colour tissue

""PILGRIMAGE The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.""

English word

English word

Pittosporum

They show the sky from atrium constructed in aircraft

Any of innumerable small bodies thought to have orbited the sun during the formation of the planets.

Plasmalemma

Plasminogen

Plasmodesma

Plasmogamy

PLASMOLYZE

Platemaking

Plebeianism

Pleinairism

Pleochroism

""The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism. dimorphism and trimorphism.""

""The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds. as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.""

""The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1. Pneumatics, 1.""

""Pl. pneumococci (-k k s , -k k ) A nonmotile, gram-positive bacterium (Streptococcus pneumoniae) that is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia, associated with meningitis and other infectious diseases.""

""A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.""

Pneumograph

Lung problem

Podophyllum

""An organism, such as a fish or reptile, having a body temperature that varies with the temperature of its surroundings; an ectotherm.""

Pointillism

Polarimeter

An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized light passing through an optical structure or sample.

POLEMICIZE

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

Polychromy

CHROMING a chromium ore

A condition marked by an abnormally large number of red blood cells in the circulatory system.

Adjective (-ic)

""The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.""

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Polyglotism

POLYGLOTT

POLYMERISE

""POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Same as Pleomorphism. Pleomorphism.

""Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author. as, a polymorphous author.""

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

Pomegranate

Traveling bags

Chap splits drinks with us - bags of them

""Pl. portmanteaus or portmanteaux (-t z, -t z ) A large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments.""

Positronium

(Sociology) a person who believes in or advocates any of the ideas that have developed from the feminist movement

How Wolfe's "The Hills Beyond" was published

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-al)

English word

Race-starting lady (wordplay)

Local head in mail service

Handles letters for concubine behind pillar

Adjective (-ic)

A shift to a later time

Playful knockers spread over page one? Time for delay

Deferment

Adjective (-ic)

Plural noun or verb form

English word

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

PRAGMATIST One who is pragmatic.

""An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.""

""Lit., previous admission;""

Preadmit

AMPLIFIER One who or that which amplifies.

ASSEMBLED assemble

Plural agent noun

COMPUTING compute

'Fix' cat maybe owning ginger and white fur

Decide in advance colour in favourite kind of fur

Peter swallows type of wine that's the pits - he should work it out in advance!

Looks forward to having the last word in

The last word in forecasts from tight spots

Looks forward to having the last word in pickles

Worried Cameron pined for mastery

Superior influence

Ascendancy

Predominance.

DOMINATED dominate

Is the strongest element

Is most prominent, but badly impersonated

Prevails

Toxic condition that can occur in late pregnancy

ECLAMPTIC

""EMERGENCE The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.""

Preeminence

In particular, before reaching August with the second half of July

Preemptive

An old theory of the pre\'89xistence of germs. Cf. Embo&icir;tement. Embo&icir;tement.

FORMATTED format

""FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

Forms of bigotry

""MALIGNANT Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.""

Premarital

Premarket

Plural or third person singular

Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxill\'91; intermaxillary.

MEASURING measure

Thought out beforehand

Planned in advance

Planned beforehand

Premeditate