11-letter words containing l, i, m, e
- epic simile — an extended simile, as used in the epic poetry of Homer and other writers
- epidemology — Misspelling of epidemiology.
- epithalamia — Plural form of epithalamium.
- epithalamic — Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.
- epithalamus — A part of the dorsal forebrain including the pineal gland and a region in the roof of the third ventricle of the brain.
- epithelioma — (medicine) Any tumor that originates in the epithelium.
- equilibrium — A state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced.
- esemplastic — Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.
- eskimo roll — a manoeuvre that causes a kayak to return to an upright position after capsizing
- etymologies — Plural form of etymology.
- etymologise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of etymologize.
- etymologist — A lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words).
- etymologize — Give or trace the etymology of (a word).
- evil-minded — suspicious
- exclamation — A sudden cry or remark, especially expressing surprise, anger, or pain.
- exclamative — a word or sentence that denotes an exclamation
- exclusivism — The action or policy of excluding a person or group from a place, group, or privilege.
- exemplarily — In an exemplary manner; ideally, admirably.
- exemplarity — The quality of being exemplary.
- exemplative — Serving as or providing a typical example.
- exemplified — Simple past tense and past participle of exemplify.
- exemplifier — One who, or that which, exemplifies.
- exemplifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exemplify.
- exemptional — Of or relating to exemption.
- externalism — Excessive regard for outward form in religion.
- familiarise — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- familiarize — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- family life — life with one's family; the part of one's life concerned with one's family
- family name — the hereditary surname of a family.
- family tree — a genealogical chart showing the ancestry, descent, and relationship of all members of a family or other genealogical group.
- favellidium — (in certain red algae) a cystocarp wholly or partly immersed in a frond.
- field mouse — any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.
- filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
- filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- file system — (operating system) (FS, or "filesystem") 1. A system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. E.g., "The Macintosh file system is just dandy as long as you don't have to interface it with any other file systems". 2. The collection of files and directories stored on a given drive (floppy drive, hard drive, disk partition, logical drive, RAM drive, etc.). E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page for "mount(8)". As an extension of this sense, "file system" is sometimes used to refer to the representatation of the file system's organisation (e.g. its file allocation table) as opposed the actual content of the files in the file system.
- filled milk — milk containing a substitute for the butterfat.
- film camera — a camera for taking moving pictures for a cinema film
- filmsetting — photocomposition.
- filter pump — a vacuum pump used to assist laboratory filtrations in which a jet of water inside a glass tube entrains air molecules from the system to be evacuated
- fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
- fire temple — a place of worship for Zoroastrians.
- firmamental — Of or pertaining to the firmament or heavens.
- fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
- flimflammed — Simple past tense and past participle of flimflam.
- flimflammer — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
- flittermice — Plural form of flittermouset, an Alternative spelling of flitter-mouse.
- florilegium — a collection of literary pieces; anthology.
- flumadiddle — utter nonsense.
- fluorimeter — fluorometer.