12-letter words containing a, r, m, s, l
- first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
- floor sample — an appliance, piece of furniture, or other article of merchandise that has been used for display or demonstration and is usually offered at a reduced price.
- florida moss — Spanish moss.
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- formal dress — clothing for elegant or solemn occasions
- formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- fraternalism — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- gamal nasser — Gamal Abdel [guh-mahl ab-doo l,, juh-] /gəˈmɑl ˈæb dʊl,, dʒə-/ (Show IPA), 1918–70, Egyptian military and political leader: prime minister of Egypt 1954–56; president of Egypt 1956–58; president of the United Arab Republic 1958–70.
- garam masala — an aromatic mixture of ground spices used in Indian cookery, usually containing black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, coriander, nutmeg, and turmeric.
- gastric mill — a gizzard in decapod crustaceans, as lobsters, crabs, and shrimps, having an arrangement of teeth and small bones for grinding food and bristles for filtering small particles.
- gastrodermal — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
- glamour puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- glamour-puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- graham's law — the principle that the rates of diffusion and effusion of a gas are inversely proportional to the square root of its density, proposed by Thomas Graham (1805-69) in 1831
- grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
- grimsel pass — an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7159 feet (2184 meters) high.
- half measure — If someone refers to policies or actions as half measures, they are critical of them because they think that they are not forceful enough and are therefore of little value.
- hammarskjold — Dag Hjalmar [dahg yahl-mahr] /dɑg ˈyɑl mɑr/ (Show IPA), 1905–61, Swedish statesman: Secretary General of the United Nations 1953–61; Nobel Peace Prize 1961.
- harmlessness — The characteristic of being harmless; the absence of harm.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- headmasterly — In a manner befitting a headmaster.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hiram revels — Hiram Rhoades [rohdz] /roʊdz/ (Show IPA), 1822–1901, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician: first black senator 1870–71.
- hyperosmolar — Of, pertaining to, or as a result of hyperosmolarity.
- hyperrealism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- illiberalism — narrowminded; bigoted.
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- immoralistic — (somewhat, rare) Of or relating to immoralism.
- immoralities — Plural form of immorality.
- immortalised — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- immortalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immortalize.
- impartialist — Someone who is or pretends to be impartial.
- imperialised — Simple past tense and past participle of imperialise.
- imperialists — Plural form of imperialist.
- imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- impersonally — In an impersonal manner.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- impressional — a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated