10-letter words containing m, e, i, n
- interramal — situated between the rami
- intimacies — Plural form of intimacy.
- intimately — associated in close personal relations: an intimate friend.
- intimidate — to make timid; fill with fear.
- intonement — The act or process of intoning.
- intraframe — (signal processing) A video frame which does not depend on any other frame for rendering, but simply presents fixed image. Usually subject to spatial compression.
- intumesced — Simple past tense and past participle of intumesce.
- investment — the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- invitement — the act of enticing or attracting
- iridosmine — a native alloy of iridium and osmium, usually containing some rhodium, ruthenium, platinum, etc., used especially for the points of gold pens.
- ironmaster — the master of a foundry or ironworks; a manufacturer of iron.
- ironmonger — a dealer in hardware.
- isoaminile — a drug formerly used to suppress coughing. Formula: C16H24N2
- isoenzymes — Plural form of isoenzyme.
- ivermectin — a drug that kills parasitic nematode worms, mites, and insects. It is used to treat a variety of parasitic infections in domestic animals and onchocerciasis in humans
- jamesonite — a metallic, dark-gray mineral, lead and iron antimony sulfide: formerly mined for lead.
- jimsonweed — (botany, US) A poisonous plant Datura stramonium, in the nightshade (Solanaceae) family. A hallucinogen occasionally ingested by those looking for a cheap high.
- jotunnheim — the home of the giants
- kairomones — Plural form of kairomone.
- kentishman — a native or inhabitant of Kent, England.
- ketonaemia — an excess of ketone bodies in the blood
- kinematics — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kineticism — the quality or state of being kinetic.
- kinetosome — a structure in some flagellate protozoans which forms the base of the flagellum, consisting of a circular arrangement of microtubules
- king's men — an English theatrical company originally called Lord Chamberlain's Men, founded in the late 16th century: William Shakespeare was the company's principal dramatist.
- kingmakers — Plural form of kingmaker.
- kitchendom — the domain of the kitchen
- lacemaking — the art, act, or process of making lace.
- lageniform — shaped like a flask; having an enlarged base tapering to a narrow neck.
- lake ilmen — a lake in NW Russia, in the Novgorod Region: drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga. Area: between 780 sq km (300 sq miles) and 2200 sq km (850 sq miles), according to the season
- lambrequin — a woven fabric covering for a helmet in medieval times to protect it from heat, rust, etc.
- lame-brain — a dunce; booby; fool.
- lamebrains — Plural form of lamebrain.
- laminarize — to make or design (a surface on an aircraft, or the flow over such a surface) so that it will be laminar
- lamivudine — (medicine) A nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor, 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thiacytidine that is used for the treatment of HIV and chronic hepatitis B.
- laumontite — a white zeolite mineral, chiefly hydrated silicate of aluminum and calcium.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
- leaf miner — any of the larvae of any of numerous insects, as moths of the family Gracilariidae, that live in and feed on the parenchyma of leaves.
- leamington — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- leguminous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or bearing legumes.
- leishmania — any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- lemon kali — an artificially flavored carbonated lemon drink; lemon soda pop.
- lemon mint — a plant, Mentha piperita, of the central U.S., having white or pinkish flowers and lemon-scented leaves when crushed.
- lemon vine — Barbados gooseberry (def 1).
- lemoniness — The state or quality of being lemony.
- lenocinium — tacit encouragement of, or assent to, adultery committed by one's partner
- lentissimo — very slow.