12-letter words containing b, e, m, i
- high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
- 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
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- homoflexible — Primarily homosexual, but willing to take part in a limited amount of heterosexual activity.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- hydrobromide — a salt formed by the direct union of hydrobromic acid and an organic base, especially an alkaloid, usually more soluble than the base.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- icbm address — (networking, humour) (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
- ice climbing — sport: scaling icy cliffs
- illiberalism — narrowminded; bigoted.
- 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.
- immobilizers — Plural form of immobilizer.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- impenetrable — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- impenetrably — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- impierceable — not able to be pierced
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- inadmissible — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incompatible — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incumbencies — Plural form of incumbency.
- incumbent on — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- incumbrancer — (legal) One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- index number — a quantity whose variation over a period of time measures the change in some phenomenon.
- ineliminable — Unable to be eliminated.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- innominables — trousers
- insubmissive — Unwilling to submit; not submissive, disobedient.
- interminable — incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
- interminably — incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
- 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.
- irremissible — not remissible; unpardonable, as a sin.
- irremissibly — In an irremissible manner; unpardonably.
- julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.