12-letter words containing i, n, s, g
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- lobotomising — Present participle of lobotomise.
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
- loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.
- 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 residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- long-lasting — enduring or existing for a long period of time: a long-lasting friendship.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- longirostral — (of birds) having a long beak
- longstanding — existing or occurring for a long time: a longstanding feud.
- loosefitting — fitting loosely
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- 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
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- lysogenicity — the quality or condition of being lysogenic
- 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.
- magnus hitch — a knot similar to a clove hitch but taking one more turn around the object to which the line is being bent; rolling hitch.
- mailing list — a list of addresses to which mail, especially advertisements, can be sent.
- malignancies — Plural form of malignancy.
- maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
- manila grass — a compact, shade-tolerant, turf-forming grass, Zoysia matrella, of southeastern Asia, having stiff leaves and flowering spikelets.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- mansplaining — (informal, pejorative) The act of condescendingly explaining something, particularly by a man to a female listener in order to appear knowledgable or from a mistaken presumption that she has an inferior understanding of the topic.
- manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
- marginal sea — water that lies alongside a state, falls under its authority, and extends about 3½ statute miles (6 kilometers) from the coast.
- marginalised — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- marginalises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marginalise.
- marginalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marginalize.
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- masking tape — an easily removed adhesive tape used temporarily for defining margins, protecting surfaces, etc., as when painting, and sometimes also for binding, sealing, or mending.
- masquerading — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- mass mailing — sending a bulk e-mail
- mass meeting — a large or general assembly to discuss or hear discussed some matter of common interest or concern: a mass meeting to protest the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
- mass wasting — downhill movement of soil and rock fragments induced by gravity.
- masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
- mastersinger — Meistersinger (def 1).
- mastigonemes — Plural form of mastigoneme.
- masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
- 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.
- menstruating — to undergo menstruation.