12-letter words containing c, l, e, m, s
- customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
- customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cyclostomate — having a round mouth
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- declamations — Plural form of declamation.
- decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- dialecticism — the influence of dialect
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
- domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domestically — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- emollescence — a state of softening before hardening
- emplacements — Plural form of emplacement.
- episcopalism — the belief that a Church should be governed by bishops
- exclamations — Plural form of exclamation.
- exclusionism — The quality of being exclusionist.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- flame stitch — an ornamental stitch, used on bedspreads, upholstery fabrics, and the like, producing rows of ogees in various colors.
- flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
- 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?
- frolicsomely — In a frolicsome manner.
- 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.
- game console — Also called game(s) console, gaming console, video-game console. a computer system specially made for playing video games by connecting it to a television or other display for video and sound.
- 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.
- gospel music — a now popularized form of impassioned rhythmic spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of rural blacks in the American South, central to the development of rhythm and blues and of soul music.
- helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
- homeschooled — Simple past tense and past participle of homeschool.
- homeschooler — One who homeschools a student (typically the parent).
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- implicitness — The state or quality of being implicit.
- inclemencies — (of the weather, the elements, etc.) severe, rough, or harsh; stormy.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- insomnolence — sleeplessness; insomnia: a troubled week of insomnolence.
- latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
- legitimistic — inclined towards, or relating to, the opinions of legitimists
- lemon cheese — a soft paste made from lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter, used as a spread or filling
- leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- locum tenens — a temporary substitute, especially for a doctor or member of the clergy.
- logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- lounge music — a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.