12-letter words containing a, g, e, m
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- human genome — genetic code of human beings
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- hypoglycemia — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- illegitimacy — the state or quality of being illegitimate.
- illegitimate — born of parents who are not married to each other; born out of wedlock: an illegitimate child.
- imagineering — the implementing of creative ideas into practical form.
- imogene coca — Imogene, 1908–2001, U.S. comic actress.
- impregnating — Present participle of impregnate.
- impregnation — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- in agreement — of the same opinion
- ingeminating — Present participle of ingeminate.
- ingemination — Repetition; reduplication; reiteration.
- inline image — (web) An image that appears within the body of a web page. Most graphical web browsers display images inline (with an option to turn off inline images, to speed up the display of web pages). Other image formats may have to be displayed in a separate window and/or by another application program. An inline image in a web page is specified with the
HTML tag, which can take many attributes, the most important of which is the SRC attribute that gives the URL from which to fetch the image. The ALT attribute gives text to display in place of the image for users with images disabled or who are using text-only browsers or text-to-speech convertors (e.g. blind users).
- inseminating — Present participle of inseminate.
- ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
- judgment day — the day of the Last Judgment; doomsday.
- judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
- kolyma range — a mountain range in NE Russia, in NE Siberia, extending about 1100 km (700 miles) between the Kolyma River and the Sea of Okhotsk. Highest peak: 1862 m (6109 ft)
- lake managua — a lake in W Nicaragua: drains into Lake Nicaragua by the Tipitapa River. Length: 61 km (38 miles). Width: about 26 km (16 miles)
- lammergeiers — Plural form of lammergeier.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
- large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
- laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
- latent image — an invisible image, produced on a sensitized emulsion by exposure to light, that will emerge in development.
- laue diagram — a diffraction pattern used to study crystal structure, consisting of symmetrically arranged spots obtained when a beam of x-rays, electrons, or neutrons is passed through a thin crystal and exposes a photographic plate.
- leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
- league match — a match played between teams in a league (as opposed to an international game)
- legal memory — a period of time, now usually established by statute, during which custom, conduct, or a state of affairs must have existed or continued in order for it to have taken on the force of law or to establish a legal right or title not otherwise provable.
- legal system — judicial structures and processes: law
- legitimately — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- legitimating — Present participle of legitimate.
- legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- legitimatize — to make legitimate.
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
- line manager — immediate supervisor
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.