12-Letter Words Starting with M

""MACADAMIZE To cover, as a road, or street, parking lot, playground, or other flat area, with macadam, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.macadam, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.""

Having machicolations.

Plots involving high-speed races

Schemes - plotting

Foul weather gear

""MACROCYTE An abnormally large red blood cell, associated with pernicious anemia.""

An abnormal physiological condition characterized by the presence of macrocytes in the blood.

Macrofossil

Macrogamete

""Pl. macronuclei (-kl - ) The larger of two nuclei present in ciliate protozoans, which controls nonreproductive functions of the cell, such as metabolism.""

""Pl. macronuclei (-kl - ) The larger of two nuclei present in ciliate protozoans, which controls nonreproductive functions of the cell, such as metabolism.""

Having long wings.

Nice girl (wordplay)

Unmarried French woman

French girl; governess

Madreporian

Madreporite

Madrigalist

Magisterium

Magistracy

Magistracy.

How attraction may happen in delightful way, securing catch

Capable of magnetized.

""An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.""

Instrument for measuring earth's field

An instrument for measuring the magnitude and direction of a magnetic field.

The outer boundary of the magnetosphere.

Magnifical

Elaborately impressive quality

Elaborate and impressive quality

Splendour

Man, long quiet, getting drunk and boastful

Lofty quote naming suspect, criminal finally caught

The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.

Sounds like it's made in the old kitchen for some of those waiting

Mainstream

Can be justified

Maintenance

In a stately and sublime manner

Based on majority rule: "a naively uncomplicated premise of simple majoritarian democracy" (Saturday Review).

Malacology

One versed in the science of malacology.

Adjective (-ive)

MALAPERT an impudent person

Mozart was a child progeny, etc.

'Select words so ingeniously misapplied'

"Mozart was a child progeny," etc.

Malapropist

Malcontent.

Malediction

Malefaction

Maleficence

Malevolence

In a malevolent manner.

Malfeasance

Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure.

Stops working for most stag parties

Malignancy

The quality or state of being malleable; opposed to friability and brittleness. friability and brittleness.

Provided with inadequate sustenance

With oil run out, abandoned after parent became short of food

Starved

Run into Tamil building for lack of food

Lack of adequate nourishment

Severe lack of proper food

Faulty contact between the upper and lower teeth when the jaw is closed.

Malodorous

Malposition

Malpractice

Bullying, say

Lament matter concerning bullying

Cruel behaviour

""Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.""

Mammalogist

MAMMOGRAPH

""MANAGEMENT The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.""

Manageress

Managerial

Managership

Mandarinate

Mandarinism

Mandolinist

MANEUVER to perform a stratagem skilfully

Manfulness

Manifestant

Manifesto

Multiplicity.

""MANIPULATE To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus. as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.""

Osteopath's method

Osteopath's technique

Osteopathic technique

Inclined to control others

Machiavellian as a physiotherapist (wordplay)

Unscrupulously controlling

Manipulator

Of or pertaining to manipulation.

The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance.

Manorialism

Ho ho ho, maybe

Crime of unpremeditated killing

Bloke's mirth is killing

Mantelpiece

Curate involved with mad fun? It's artificial

Made

Fellow switched future car brand

Maker of goods

Fabricator makes things up presumably

Manufacture

Manumission

Maquiladora

Marathoning

MARGINALIZE

Marginalize

Margination

Margraviate

Mariculture

Markedness

Marketplace

Skill with rifle, crossbow etc

Skill in hitting a target

Skill in shooting

""Nautical A pointed metal spike, used to separate strands of rope or wire in splicing.""

Marlinspike

Marquessate

Marqueterie

Marquisette

Suitable to become a union member

Nubile (literally)

Marshalship

Marshiness

Spongy, gelatin-filled sweets

Toast one of these

Spongy sweets

Soft and yielding

MASCULINISE

Masculinise

MASCULINIZE

Masculinize

Space men, witches, clowns, etc.

Pretending

Mastectomy

The quality or state of being masterly; ability to control wisely or skillfully.

Teacher took care to get organised

Did the brainwork.

Was the genius controlling teacher resented (wordplay)

Owner scraps works of art

Best work in epic art seems different

*Works worth framing

One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.

A touch of genius (wordplay)

Well-timed act

Very clever move

Mastication

""MASTURBATE To achieve sexual gratification by stimulating one's own sexual organs, without the aid of a partner; -- typically to the point of orgasm.""

Onanism; selfpollution.

Masturbator

MASTURBATOR

Matchmaking

Potentially it is 'made real'

Materialise

Materialism

These people at it miss real issue

""MATERIALIZE To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.""

""MATERIALIZE To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.""

Materialize

The state of being material.

Male at match, I get confused by numbers

(Of proof) very accurate

Like magic squares

MATHEMATIZE

Mathematize

The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.

Matriarchy

Matriculant

Enrolled.

Registers as a student

""MATURATION The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.""

The act or process of increasing to the highest degree.

Meadowsweet

Meagerness

Hesitant to state facts (2 words)

Smooth tongued - too squeamish

Afraid to speak frankly

Meaningful

Sizes of certain players in foreign teams

Calculates workers at the bar inside for the designer

Judges locking up workers for first time seen on tapes

Meatpacking

(Medicine / Pharmacology) a ganglion-blocking drug administered orally to lower high blood pressure. Formula: C 11 H 21 N [from me ( thyl ) + cam ( phane ) (a former name of bornane) + -yl + amine ]

(Done) without thought or spontaneity

Mechanician

MECHANIZE To cause to be mechanical.

Medievalism

Medievalist

Rather inferior people

Meditative

Quaker place of worship

Quaker church

Quaker building

Megaloblast

Act of controlling by force

Person with delusions of power

One thinking he is great

Megalomania

Megaproject

Megatonnage

Megavitamin

""A mental disorder characterized by severe depression, guilt, hopelessness, and withdrawal.""

Melancholia

Melancholic

Melancholy

""MELANIZE to make dark, also MELANISE""

Melanoblast

Melanophore

Melioration

Mellowness

Emotionally overblown (in theatre)

Exaggerated - over-emotional

Exaggerated, over-emotional

Membranous

The quality or state of being memorable.

MEMORIALISE Same as memorialize.

Memorialise

A strict version of six (wordplay)

""MEMORIALIZE To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature. as, to memorialize the legislature.""

Memorialize

Noun (-tion)

In a lying manner

Mendelevium

Mendicancy

""Pl. meningiomas or meningiomata (-m -t ) A slow-growing tumor of the meninges, occurring most often in adults.""

""Inflammation of the meninges of the brain and the spinal cord, most often caused by a bacterial or viral infection and characterized by fever, vomiting, intense headache, and stiff neck.""

""Pl. meningococci (-k k s , -k ) A bacterium (Neisseria meningitidis) that causes cerebrospinal meningitis.""

Menorrhagia

Discharging menstrual fluid; -- of women during their menstrual period.

""The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.""

Mensuration

Meprobamate

""MERCANTILE Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.""

""MERCANTILE Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.""

Charmed Denis (anagram)

A trader.

Merchandise

MERCHANDIZE

Merchandize

Two kinds of seaman like hot cakes (wordplay)