12-letter words containing e, m, a, n
- intimateness — Quality of being intimate.
- intramundane — existing or occurring within the material world.
- irritainment — Entertainment that annoys, embarrasses, or upsets more than or as much as it entertains, whether unintentionally or by design.
- isoenzymatic — isoenzymic
- ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
- james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime
- jasmine rice — an aromatic, flavorful long-grain rice of Asia, especially Thailand.
- journeywoman — The female equivalent of a journeyman.
- judgment day — the day of the Last Judgment; doomsday.
- judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
- jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury
- katzenjammer — the discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover.
- keep company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- know by name — to have heard of without having met
- kolyma range — a mountain range in NE Russia, in NE Siberia, extending about 1100 km (700 miles) between the Kolyma River and the Sea of Okhotsk. Highest peak: 1862 m (6109 ft)
- la mano nera — Black Hand (def 1).
- lake mälaren — a lake in S Sweden, extending 121 km (75 miles) west from Stockholm, where it joins with an inlet of the Baltic Sea (the Saltsjön). Area: 1140 sq km (440 sq miles)
- lake managua — a lake in W Nicaragua: drains into Lake Nicaragua by the Tipitapa River. Length: 61 km (38 miles). Width: about 26 km (16 miles)
- lamellaphone — Alt form lamellophone.
- lamellophone — (musical instruments) Any of several musical instruments in which the sound is produced by plucking a series of thin lamellaa attached to a sounding board.
- lamentations — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- laminotomies — Plural form of laminotomy.
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
- laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
- latent image — an invisible image, produced on a sensitized emulsion by exposure to light, that will emerge in development.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
- leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
- lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.
- legitimating — Present participle of legitimate.
- legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- lemminkainen — (in the Kalevala) a young, jovial hero who has many adventures in which he is sometimes helped by his mother.
- lemnian seal — the earth of the Greek island of Lemnos, which is famous for its medicinal properties
- lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
- lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
- line manager — immediate supervisor
- linear motor — an electric motor in which a movable part moves in a straight line, with power being supplied by a varying magnetic field set up by a fixed part of the system, as a metal rail on the ground.
- linseed meal — ground linseed cake.
- 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.