12-letter words containing a, l, i, m
- installments — Plural form of installment.
- instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- interfemoral — situated between the thighs
- interlaminar — composed of, or arranged in, laminae.
- intermaxilla — (anatomy) premaxilla.
- intermercial — interstitial
- interminable — incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
- interminably — incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
- inthrallment — Obsolete spelling of enthrallment.
- intralaminar — Within a lamina.
- intraluminal — Within a lumen.
- intramurally — In an intramural manner.
- irredeemable — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.
- irredeemably — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.
- irreformable — insusceptible to reforming influences; incorrigible.
- irreformably — in an irreformable manner
- irremediable — not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair: irremediable conduct.
- irremediably — not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair: irremediable conduct.
- islamophobia — Alternative capitalization of Islamophobia.
- ismail pasha — 1830–95, viceroy and khedive of Egypt 1863–79.
- isolationism — the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities.
- isothermally — occurring at constant temperature.
- itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
- jamal ud-din — (Jamal ud-Din al-Afghani) 1838–97, Muslim educator and political leader, born in Persia: founder of modern Pan-Islamism.
- jim crow law — any state law discriminating against black persons.
- joint family — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
- joy, william — William Joy
- julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
- jump a claim — to seize mining rights or land claimed by someone else
- justicialism — the political doctrine of Juan Domingo Perón, formerly President of Argentina
- kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- labia majora — female genitals: outer folds of skin
- labia minora — female genitals: inner folds of skin
- lachrymation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lacrimal sac — the dilated upper portion of the nasolacrimal duct that receives tears from the lacrimal ducts.
- lactalbumins — Plural form of lactalbumin.
- ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
- lamb's tails — burro's tail.
- lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
- lamentations — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- laminar flow — the flow of a viscous fluid in which particles of the fluid move in parallel layers, each of which has a constant velocity but is in motion relative to its neighboring layers.
- laminotomies — Plural form of laminotomy.
- lammergeiers — Plural form of lammergeier.
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- lamp trimmer — a sailor responsible for keeping the oil lamps of a ship burning brightly, especially the deck and navigation lamps.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- lamprophyric — belonging or relating to a lamprophyre