12-letter words containing mar
- 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).
- money market — the short-term trade in money, as in the sale and purchase of bonds and certificates.
- niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
- noise margin — (electronics) The voltage difference between the guaranteed output level and the required input voltage level of a logic gate.
- non-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- oamaru stone — a kind of limestone, of building quality, found at Oamaru on South Island, New Zealand
- omar khayyám — Omar, Omar Khayyám.
- on the march — If a group of soldiers are on the march, they are marching somewhere.
- on your mark — a command given to runners in a race to prepare themselves at the starting line
- onward march — the continuing, advancing or improving movement (of situation, etc)
- open primary — a direct primary election in which voters need not meet a test of party membership.
- orange march — a parade on Orangemen's day
- out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
- post-primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
- pot marjoram — oregano.
- pre-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- premaritally — in a premarital manner
- premarketing — before the development of a market
- primary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
- primary care — medical care by a physician, or other health-care professional, who is the patient's first contact with the health-care system and who may recommend a specialist if necessary.
- primary cell — a cell designed to produce electric current through an electrochemical reaction that is not efficiently reversible, so that the cell when discharged cannot be efficiently recharged by an electric current.
- primary gain — the removal of emotional conflict or relief of anxiety that is the immediate benefit of a defense mechanism or neurotic symptom.
- primary root — the first root produced by a germinating seed, developing from the radicle of the embryo.
- primary type — a specimen used in the original description or illustration of a species.
- primary verb — one of the three verbs, be, do, and have, that can function both as a main verb and an auxiliary verb.
- primary wall — the wall of a plant cell that is formed first around the protoplast, composed of cellulose microfibrils aligned at all angles and held together by hydrogen bonds.
- primary wave — Seismology. P wave.