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12-letter words containing l, i, m, e

  • public enemy — a person or thing considered a danger or menace to the public, especially a wanted criminal widely sought by the F.B.I. and local police forces.
  • public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
  • puerto limon — Limón (def 2).
  • pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
  • purple medic — a plant, Medicago sativa, of the legume family, usually having bluish-purple flowers, originating in the Near East and widely cultivated as a forage crop.
  • pygmy glider — a gliding marsupial, Acrobates pygmaeus, of Australia, growing to about the size of a mouse and having a featherlike tail.
  • pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
  • quality time — time devoted exclusively to nurturing a cherished person or activity.
  • qualmishness — The quality of being qualmish.
  • quarter mile — an event in which competitors run a quarter mile or 400 metres
  • radioelement — a radioactive element.
  • raw material — material before being processed or manufactured into a final form.
  • re-alignment — an adjustment to a line; arrangement in a straight line.
  • reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
  • rear admiral — U.S. Navy, Coast Guard. a commissioned officer next in rank below a vice-admiral.
  • reassimilate — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
  • redemptively — serving to redeem.
  • reenlistment — an act of reenlisting.
  • reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
  • reimbursable — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
  • reinstalment — a further or new instalment
  • remedilessly — in a remediless manner, beyond remedy
  • remilitarize — to equip with armed forces, military supplies, or the like.
  • remineralize — to add or restore minerals to
  • remote login — (networking)   A client-server program and protocol that provides an interactivel command line interface to a remote computer, using a protocol over a computer network, simulating a locally attached terminal.
  • reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
  • rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
  • rimmed steel — a low-carbon steel containing enough iron oxide so that there is continuous generation of carbon monoxide during solidification.
  • rock climber — sb who scales mountains
  • root climber — a plant that clings to a surface and climbs by means of adventitious roots, as the ivy, Hedera helix.
  • rumble strip — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
  • saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
  • salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
  • salesmanship — the technique of selling a product: They used a promotional gimmick that was the last word in salesmanship.
  • salicylamide — a compound of ammonia and gualtheria oil
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
  • sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
  • scribblement — a scribble
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
  • sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
  • sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
  • segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
  • seismologist — the science or study of earthquakes and their phenomena.
  • self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
  • self-imposed — imposed on one by oneself: a self-imposed task.
  • self-limited — (of a disease) running a definite and limited course.
  • self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • self-priming — the powder or other material used to ignite a charge.
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