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12-letter words containing a, l, e, g, m, n

  • halogen lamp — a gas-filled, high-intensity incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament and containing a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine, that vaporizes on heating and redeposits any evaporated tungsten particles back onto the filament: used especially in motion-picture projectors and automobile headlights.
  • heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
  • homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
  • 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).
  • judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
  • 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)
  • 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-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.
  • leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
  • legitimating — Present participle of legitimate.
  • legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • 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.
  • longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • maginot line — a zone of heavy defensive fortifications erected by France along its eastern border in the years preceding World War II, but outflanked in 1940 when the German army attacked through Belgium.
  • magnet steel — steel used for the manufacture of permanent magnets, often having a high cobalt content and smaller amounts of nickel, aluminium, or copper
  • magnetically — By or as by, magnetism.
  • magnetizable — susceptible to magnetization.
  • magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
  • magniloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
  • mail merging — a software facility that can produce a large number of personalized letters by combining a file containing a list of names and addresses with one containing a single standard document
  • mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
  • male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
  • malignancies — Plural form of malignancy.
  • malt vinegar — acidic condiment made from malted barley
  • managemental — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
  • managerially — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
  • mangelwurzel — a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
  • manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
  • marginal sea — water that lies alongside a state, falls under its authority, and extends about 3½ statute miles (6 kilometers) from the coast.
  • marginalised — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
  • marginalises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marginalise.
  • marginalized — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
  • marginalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marginalize.
  • marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
  • matrilineage — lineal descent traced through the female line.
  • meanderingly — In a meandering or winding manner.
  • meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • medicalizing — Present participle of medicalize.
  • meeting rail — (in a double-hung window) the rail of each sash that meets a rail of the other when the window is closed.
  • megalomaniac — a person afflicted with megalomania.
  • megamillions — Plural form of megamillion.
  • mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
  • melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
  • mental image — sth imagined
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