12-letter words containing m, e, a, s, u
- fauxmosexual — (slang) A heterosexual person who affects homosexual characteristics.
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- fundamentals — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- gamopetalous — having the petals united.
- gamosepalous — having the sepals united.
- get up steam — (of a ship, etc) to work up a sufficient head of steam in a boiler to drive an engine
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- guesstimated — Simple past tense and past participle of guesstimate.
- guesstimates — Plural form of guesstimate.
- half measure — If someone refers to policies or actions as half measures, they are critical of them because they think that they are not forceful enough and are therefore of little value.
- haussmannize — to rebuild in a similar fashion as Haussmann rebuilt Paris
- helium flash — the explosive burning of helium in the case of a star of low mass that occurs when the core is so dense that the matter has become degenerate. The burning causes a rapid rise in temperature until it is so high that the gas ceases to be degenerate, after which there is a rapid expansion
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- homosexually — In a homosexual way.
- horse manure — horse's excrement
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- housemasters — Plural form of housemaster.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- 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.
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- immatureness — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.
- immaturities — Plural form of immaturity.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- in a measure — to an extent
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- infamousness — The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
- inhumanities — Plural form of inhumanity.
- insectariums — Plural form of insectarium.
- instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
- leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
- leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
- litmus paper — a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- lumbersexual — a man whose style of dress and appearance is reminiscent of the ruggedly masculine stereotype of the lumberjack, as in wearing plaid shirts and having a beard.
- macaberesque — resembling or suggestive of the danse macabre; macabre