12-letter words containing l, a, m, e, s
- balsam apple — an ornamental cucurbitaceous vine, Momordica balsamina, of the Old World tropics, with yellow flowers and orange egg-shaped fruits
- balsamaceous — any of various fragrant exudations from certain trees, especially trees of the genus Commiphora, as balm-of-Gilead. Compare balm (def 1).
- basementless — without a basement
- beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
- bedside lamp — a lamp beside a bed
- bicameralism — having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
- bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
- bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
- black stream — a warm ocean current in the Pacific, flowing N along the E coast of Taiwan, NE along the E coast of Japan, and continuing in an easterly direction into the open Pacific.
- blamableness — the state of being blamable
- blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
- blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
- blood sample — an amount of a person's blood taken from their body for use in medical tests
- blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
- by all means — You can say 'by all means' to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something.
- calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
- camel's hair — the hair of the camel
- camel's-hair — made of camel's hair.
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
- cameralistic — of or relating to public finance.
- canoe slalom — a competitive event in which a canoeist maneuvers through a slalom course, usually in white water.
- carol stream — a town in NE Illinois.
- caustic lime — lime1 (def 1).
- cellarmaster — a person in charge of a wine cellar.
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
- clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
- clapham sect — a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc
- class method — (programming) 1. A method that operates on a class object (an object of class "class"). A class method is really just an ordinary object method that happens to operate on class objects. A class method might, for example, return a list of objects representing the methods and attributes of the given class. 2. A static method.
- class system — a system in which social status is largely determined by the family into which a person is born
- clear as mud — not at all clear
- cleistogamic — Alternative form of cleistogamous.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- climacterics — Plural form of climacteric.
- close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
- closet drama — drama suitable for reading rather than performing
- clytemnestra — the wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed on his return from the Trojan War
- collegialism — the theory that the church's highest authority is its collective membership
- collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- comma splice — comma fault.
- commensalism — a close association or union between two kinds of organisms, in which one is benefited by the relationship and the other is neither benefited nor harmed
- commensality — eating together at the same table.
- commiserable — worthy of commiseration; pitiable
- common pleas — in some U.S. states, a court having general and original jurisdiction over civil and criminal trials
- commonalties — Plural form of commonalty.
- commonplaces — Plural form of commonplace.
- complaisance — deference to the wishes of others; willing compliance
- complex salt — a salt that contains one or more complex ions