12-letter words containing c, a, o, m, i
- enharmonical — relating to the enharmonic scale
- episcopalism — the belief that a Church should be governed by bishops
- epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
- etheromaniac — a person who is addicted to ether
- etymological — (not comparable) Of or relating to etymology.
- exclamations — Plural form of exclamation.
- exophthalmic — Having or characterized by protruding eyes.
- factionalism — of a faction or factions.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
- film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
- film-coating — Film-coating is a process in which a tablet, capsule, or pellet is covered by a thin layer of film to protect it or make it easier to swallow.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- foam plastic — a kind of light cellular plastic made by creating bubbles of gas in the liquid material and solidifying it: often used as an insulator
- formal logic — the branch of logic concerned exclusively with the principles of deductive reasoning and with the form rather than the content of propositions.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- furocoumarin — psoralen.
- galactosemia — an inherited disorder characterized by the inability to metabolize galactose and requiring a galactose-free diet to avoid consequent mental retardation and eye, spleen, and liver abnormalities.
- gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
- gamification — the process of turning an activity or task into a game or something resembling a game: Teachers can use gamification to motivate their students.
- gangliectomy — (medicine) Excision of a ganglion; surgical removal of a mass of tissue.
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- gastronomics — the cooking style typical of a region or country
- geomechanics — the study and application of rock and soil mechanics
- geometrician — a person skilled in geometry.
- gigantomachy — (in Greek mythology) the struggle between the gods and the giants.
- glossematics — a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.
- gothic armor — white armor of the 15th century, marked especially by much fluting and ornamentation.
- gram calorie — calorie (def 1a). Abbreviation: g-cal.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- gum ammoniac — a brownish-yellow gum resin, having an acrid taste, occurring in tearlike fragments from a plant, Dorema ammoniacum, of western Asia: used in porcelain ceramics and in medicine as an expectorant and counterirritant.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- haemophiliac — A person with haemophilia.
- haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- harmonic law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- harmonically — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- harmonichord — a musical instrument resembling an upright piano intended to fuse the sound of a violin with the functionality of a piano, the tone therefore produced using friction rather than through striking
- hematochezia — the passage of bloody stools.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
- heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
- heroicomical — blending heroic and comic elements: a heroicomic poem.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.