12-letter words containing i, c, e, m, a, n
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- gemeinschaft — an association of individuals having sentiments, tastes, and attitudes in common; fellowship.
- generic name — non-brand name of a product
- geomechanics — the study and application of rock and soil mechanics
- geometrician — a person skilled in geometry.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- home machine — 1. Synonym home box. 2. The machine that receives your e-mail. These senses might be distinct, for example, for a hacker who owns one computer at home, but reads e-mail at work.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- ian maclaren — James Dewey, born 1928, U.S. biologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- imogene coca — Imogene, 1908–2001, U.S. comic actress.
- impeachments — Plural form of impeachment.
- impermanence — not permanent or enduring; transitory.
- impermanency — Alternative form of impermanence.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- incendiarism — the act or practice of an arsonist; malicious burning.
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incompatible — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incompliance — not compliant; unyielding.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- increasement — (rare) An increase; growth.
- incriminated — Simple past tense and past participle of incriminate.
- incumbrancer — (legal) One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- indomethacin — a substance, C 19 H 16 ClNO 4 , with anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, and analgesic properties: used in the treatment of certain kinds of arthritis and gout.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.
- insectariums — Plural form of insectarium.
- intemperance — excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages.
- intercompany — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- intercompare — (of members of a group) to compare each member against all other members
- intermediacy — the state of being intermediate or of acting intermediately.
- intermercial — interstitial
- isoenzymatic — isoenzymic
- jasmine rice — an aromatic, flavorful long-grain rice of Asia, especially Thailand.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- 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.