12-letter words containing g, e, m, s
- gross income — Accounting. total revenue received before any deductions or allowances, as for rent, cost of goods sold, taxes, etc.
- gruesomeness — The characteristic or quality of being gruesome.
- guesstimated — Simple past tense and past participle of guesstimate.
- guesstimates — Plural form of guesstimate.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
- haemogenesis — Haematopoiesis.
- haemorrhages — Plural form of haemorrhage.
- head massage — massage of the head
- hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- hematologist — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- hemstitching — Present participle of hemstitch.
- hergesheimer — Joseph, 1880–1954, U.S. novelist.
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- holmes light — a canister, attached to a life buoy or float, containing calcium carbonate and calcium phosphide, which ignite spontaneously on contact with the water, emitting conspicuous fire and smoke.
- home posting — an appointment to a position within one's own country
- home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- homogenising — Present participle of homogenise.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- illegitimise — illegitimatize.
- immiserising — immiserate.
- immiserizing — immiserate.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- imposingness — The quality of being imposing.
- inseminating — Present participle of inseminate.
- intermeshing — That mesh between one another.
- intermingles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermingle.
- interregnums — Plural form of interregnum.
- intersegment — Between segments.
- ironmonger's — a shop where articles for the house and garden such as tools, nails, and pans are sold
- lammergeiers — Plural form of lammergeier.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- legal system — judicial structures and processes: law
- legitimising — Present participle of legitimise.
- legitimistic — inclined towards, or relating to, the opinions of legitimists
- line segment — segment (def 2b).
- 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.
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- long-stemmed — having a long stem or stems: long-stemmed roses.
- long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
- longsomeness — tiresome lengthiness
- lounge music — a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.
- lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time