12-letter words containing m, a, r, i, c
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hermetically — so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
- heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
- heroicomical — blending heroic and comic elements: a heroicomic poem.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- homoromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the same gender.
- horometrical — Relating to horometry.
- hydrodynamic — pertaining to forces in or motions of liquids.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- hypermediacy — Hypermedia literacy; the state of being conversant with hypermedia technologies.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- ian maclaren — James Dewey, born 1928, U.S. biologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
- iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
- icbm address — (networking, humour) (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
- imidacloprid — The insecticide 1-(6-chloro-3-pyridylmethyl)-N-nitroimidazolidin-2-ylideneamine used to control fleas in domestic pets.
- immoralistic — (somewhat, rare) Of or relating to immoralism.
- imparticular — (proscribed) in particular.
- impermanence — not permanent or enduring; transitory.
- impermanency — Alternative form of impermanence.
- impierceable — not able to be pierced
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- incendiarism — the act or practice of an arsonist; malicious burning.
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incomparably — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- increasement — (rare) An increase; growth.
- incriminated — Simple past tense and past participle of incriminate.
- incumbrancer — (legal) One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.
- inharmonical — Alternative form of inharmonic.
- insectariums — Plural form of insectarium.
- intemperance — excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages.
- intercompany — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- intercompare — (of members of a group) to compare each member against all other members
- intermediacy — the state of being intermediate or of acting intermediately.
- intermercial — interstitial
- intra-atomic — within an atom or atoms.
- intracompany — occurring within a company, especially between employees or branches of the company.
- isochromatic — Optics. having the same color or tint.
- isodiametric — having equal diameters or axes.
- jasmine rice — an aromatic, flavorful long-grain rice of Asia, especially Thailand.
- jim crow law — any state law discriminating against black persons.
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.