12-letter words containing c, l, e, m, s
- middlescence — the middle-age period of life, especially when considered a difficult time of self-doubt and readjustment.
- milliseconds — Plural form of millisecond.
- misalliances — Plural form of misalliance.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misallocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misallocate.
- miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- miscellanies — a miscellaneous collection or group of various or somewhat unrelated items.
- miscellanist — a person who writes, compiles, or edits miscellanies.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- misrecollect — to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
- molluscicide — A substance that kills molluscs.
- mollycoddles — Plural form of mollycoddle.
- monocultures — Plural form of monoculture.
- morro castle — a historic fort at the entrance to the harbor of Havana, Cuba.
- mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
- multicostate — having several costae or ribs
- multiscience — a broad knowledge
- multiservice — involving two or more of the armed services
- multispecies — of, relating to or affecting several species
- multisulcate — having many grooves or furrows
- muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
- muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
- muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
- muscle sense — a sense of movement derived from afferent nerves originating in tendons, muscle tissue, skin, and joints; proprioception.
- muscle shirt — Slang. a T-shirt having short sleeves or no sleeves.
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- museological — Pertaining to museology.
- music locker — Digital Technology. an online service that supports cloud-based storage of digital music files so as to allow users to stream or download their personal music collections for playback on any compatible device: I uploaded all my CDs to a music locker, and now I can access the music from my laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- nomenclators — Plural form of nomenclator.
- olympic-size — of the dimensions or length prescribed for the Olympic Games and other major athletic competitions: an Olympic-size speed-skating oval.
- omnisciently — having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.
- oscillometer — an instrument for measuring oscillations, especially those of the arterial pulse.
- oscillometry — an instrument for measuring oscillations, especially those of the arterial pulse.
- osteomalacia — a condition characterized by softening of the bones with resultant pain, weakness, and bone fragility, caused by inadequate deposition of calcium or vitamin D.
- 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.
- 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.
- polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
- preeclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- 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