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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.
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