13-letter words containing l, a, m, e, s
- immovableness — The quality of being immovable.
- immutableness — The state of being immutable; unchangeableness.
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- impartialness — The quality of being impartial.
- imperialistic — the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.
- impersonalise — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonalism — the practice of maintaining impersonal relations with individuals or groups.
- impersonality — absence of human character or of the traits associated with the human character: He feared the impersonality of a mechanized world.
- impersonalize — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- in real terms — You can also talk about the cost or value of something in real terms.
- inassimilable — That cannot be assimilated.
- incompatibles — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- inertial mass — the mass of a body as determined by the second law of motion from the acceleration of the body when it is subjected to a force that is not due to gravity.
- infinitesimal — indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute: infinitesimal vessels in the circulatory system.
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- instrumentals — Plural form of instrumental.
- intermodalism — pertaining to or suitable for transportation involving more than one form of carrier, as truck and rail, or truck, ship, and rail.
- intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- invisible man — a novel (1897) by H.G. Wells.
- irredeemables — undated government or debenture stock
- islamic state — an Islamist terrorist organization, formed in the early 21st century, whose aim is to create a caliphate in the Middle East and N Africa
- ismaticalness — the quality of following isms or fashionable doctrines
- isometrically — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- james douglas — Sir James ("the Black Douglas") 1286–1330, Scottish military leader.
- james gosling — (person) The software engineer who wrote GOSMACS, and served as Sun Microsystems, Inc. project leader for both NeWS, and Java. He is currently (1997) a Vice President and "Distinguished Engineer" at Sun.
- japanese plum — a small tree, Prunus salicina, native to China, bearing edible yellowish fruit.
- jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
- kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
- kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
- kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- lady mayoress — the wife of a lord mayor
- lady's mantle — any of various rosaceous plants of the N temperate genus Alchemilla, having small green flowers
- lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
- lamellaphones — Plural form of lamellaphone.
- laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
- lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
- laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
- last judgment — judgment (def 8).
- legacy system — (jargon) A computer system or application program which continues to be used because of the cost of replacing or redesigning it and often despite its poor competitiveness and compatibility with modern equivalents. The implication is that the system is large, monolithic and difficult to modify. If legacy software only runs on antiquated hardware the cost of maintaining this may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.
- leiomyomatous — a benign tumor composed of nonstriated muscular tissue.
- leishmaniasis — any infection caused by a protozoan of the genus Leishmania.
- leishmaniosis — Alt form leishmaniasis.
- let off steam — a blast of air or wind: to clean machinery with a blow.