12-letter words containing l, e, m, n
- fuel element — a can containing nuclear fuel for use in a fission reactor
- fulfillments — Plural form of fulfillment.
- fundamentals — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- funeral home — an establishment where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation, where the body may be viewed, and where funeral services are sometimes held.
- galvanometer — an instrument for detecting the existence of small electric currents and determining their strength.
- galvanometry — the method or process of determining the strength of electric currents.
- gamal nasser — Gamal Abdel [guh-mahl ab-doo l,, juh-] /gəˈmɑl ˈæb dʊl,, dʒə-/ (Show IPA), 1918–70, Egyptian military and political leader: prime minister of Egypt 1954–56; president of Egypt 1956–58; president of the United Arab Republic 1958–70.
- gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
- game console — Also called game(s) console, gaming console, video-game console. a computer system specially made for playing video games by connecting it to a television or other display for video and sound.
- gaming table — a table used for gambling, especially one designed with a game board and slots for chips.
- gangliectomy — (medicine) Excision of a ganglion; surgical removal of a mass of tissue.
- gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
- gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
- genoa salami — a hard, garlic-flavored salami of pork and veal or, especially in the U.S., pork and beef.
- germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
- gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
- gladsomeness — (archaic) gladness.
- glenohumeral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
- glimmeringly — a faint or unsteady light; glimmer.
- gormlessness — The state of being gormless.
- governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- habilimented — Clothed.
- haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
- haematoxylon — any thorny leguminous tree of the genus Haematoxylon, esp the logwood, of tropical America and SW Africa. The heartwood yields the dye haematoxylin
- halogen lamp — a gas-filled, high-intensity incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament and containing a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine, that vaporizes on heating and redeposits any evaporated tungsten particles back onto the filament: used especially in motion-picture projectors and automobile headlights.
- hambletonian — one of a superior strain of American trotting horses descended from the stallion Hambletonian.
- harmlessness — The characteristic of being harmless; the absence of harm.
- harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- helianthemum — (botany) Any of the genus Helianthemum of rockroses.
- helmet liner — a soft or padded lining for a helmet.
- helmsmanship — the skill or function of a helmsman
- helmspersons — Plural form of helmsperson.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- hemodilution — a decreased concentration of cells and solids in blood, usually caused by an influx of fluid.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- homelessness — without a home: a homeless child.
- homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- ian maclaren — James Dewey, born 1928, U.S. biologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
- ice climbing — sport: scaling icy cliffs
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- iliamna lake — the largest lake in Alaska, in the SW part. 1022 sq. mi. (2647 sq. km).
- ill-informed — lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.
- ill-mannered — having bad or poor manners; impolite; discourteous; rude.
- illuminative — giving light; illuminating.