12-letter words containing h, i, m, s, e, l
- imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- isothermally — occurring at constant temperature.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- 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.
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- mesolecithal — centrolecithal.
- mesothelioma — a malignant tumor of the covering of the lung or the lining of the pleural and abdominal cavities, often associated with exposure to asbestos.
- metal polish — cleaning fluid designed to clean, polish or add shine to metal
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- middle irish — the Irish language of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
- milk thistle — flowering plant
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- millihenries — Plural form of millihenry.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- morphologies — Plural form of morphology.
- motherliness — The property of being motherly.
- muscle shirt — Slang. a T-shirt having short sleeves or no sleeves.
- mushroomlike — Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
- musk thistle — a composite plant, Carduus nutans, having heads of nodding, rose-purple flowers, introduced into the U.S. from Eurasia.
- mythologizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mythologize.
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
- omnishambles — Chiefly British Informal. a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences.
- panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- philomelides — a king of Lesbos who wrestled and killed every opponent until he himself was defeated by Odysseus.
- phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
- photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- pleomorphism — existence of an organism in two or more distinct forms during the life cycle; polymorphism.
- qualmishness — The quality of being qualmish.
- rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
- saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
- salesmanship — the technique of selling a product: They used a promotional gimmick that was the last word in salesmanship.
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- share-milker — (in New Zealand) a person who lives on a dairy farm milking the owner's herd for an agreed share of the profits and, usually, building his own herd simultaneously
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- simian shelf — a shelflike thickening along the inside of the mandible, characteristic of the anthropoid apes.