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12-letter words containing a, l, m, e, s

  • osteomalacic — a condition characterized by softening of the bones with resultant pain, weakness, and bone fragility, caused by inadequate deposition of calcium or vitamin D.
  • palimpsestic — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
  • panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
  • pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
  • parallel sml — ["Parallel SML: A Functional Language and its Implementation in Dactl", Kevin Hammond, Pitman Press 1990].
  • pearl primus — Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
  • perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
  • persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • planetesimal — one of the small celestial bodies that, according to one theory (planetesimal hypothesis) were fused together to form the planets of the solar system.
  • plasmasphere — a region of cool plasma surrounding the earth, extending 8000–25,000 miles (13,000–40,000 km) into space, and bounded by the plasmapause.
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • plumulaceous — having the texture of down.
  • pole compass — (formerly) a ship's compass elevated on a wooden pole to isolate it as much as possible from local magnetism.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • postal meter — a postal franking machine
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
  • pre-assembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
  • preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
  • preeclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
  • premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
  • primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • proper psalm — a psalm used only on a particular day or feast
  • qualmishness — The quality of being qualmish.
  • reassemblage — a new or further gathering or collection
  • reassimilate — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
  • reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
  • reimbursable — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
  • reinstalment — a further or new instalment
  • remnant sale — a sale of items that are unwanted or left over, sold at a lower price
  • rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
  • rummage sale — a sale of miscellaneous articles, old or new, as items contributed to raise money for charity, of unclaimed goods at a wharf or warehouse, or of odds and ends of merchandise at a shop.
  • sacramentals — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
  • salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
  • sales volume — quantity of goods sold
  • salesmanship — the technique of selling a product: They used a promotional gimmick that was the last word in salesmanship.
  • salicylamide — a compound of ammonia and gualtheria oil
  • salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
  • saltpetreman — a supplier of saltpetre
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • sample space — the collection of all possible results of an experiment, represented as points.
  • samuel lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
  • samuel morse — Jedidiah [jed-i-dahy-uh] /ˌdʒɛd ɪˈdaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse).
  • san clemente — a town in S California.
  • saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
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