12-letter words containing g, o, s, m
- immobilising — Present participle of immobilise.
- immunologist — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- impassioning — Present participle of impassion.
- 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.
- incompassing — Present participle of incompass.
- ironmonger's — a shop where articles for the house and garden such as tools, nails, and pans are sold
- kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
- king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
- laryngospasm — An uncontrolled, spasmodic closure of the larynx.
- limacologist — a person who specialises in the study of slugs
- lobotomising — Present participle of lobotomise.
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- 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
- macrogametes — Plural form of macrogamete.
- macroglossia — Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.
- macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
- macrosegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
- magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
- magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
- magnetotaxis — movement or orientation of an organism in response to a magnetic field.
- magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
- magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
- magpie goose — a black-and-white gooselike bird, Anseranas semipalmatus, of Australia, believed to be the most primitive waterfowl in existence.
- magyarorszag — Hungarian name of Hungary.
- malacologist — A person who studies molluscs, who specializes in malacology.
- mallophagous — of or relating to any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- mao tse-tung — 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.
- mastigonemes — Plural form of mastigoneme.
- mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- matto grosso — Mato Grosso.
- meadow grass — any grass of the genus Poa, especially P. pratensis, the Kentucky bluegrass.
- meeting post — a timber with a chamfer at the outer edge of a lock gate that fits against the meeting post of another lock gate.
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- megamillions — Plural form of megamillion.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
- mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.