12-letter words containing m, e, l, a, n, o
- smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
- stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
- stove enamel — a type of enamel made heatproof by treatment in a stove
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
- telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
- temptational — the act of tempting; enticement or allurement.
- thermohaline — relating to both the temperature and salinity of ocean water
- timbale iron — a metal mold made in any of several shapes and usually provided with a long handle, for deep-frying timbales.
- to mean well — If you say that someone means well, you mean they are trying to be kind and helpful, even though they might be causing someone problems or upsetting them.
- true anomaly — the anomaly of a planet; its angular distance from perihelion or aphelion.
- ultramontane — beyond the mountains.
- uncommercial — not engaged in or involved with commerce or trade.
- uncomparable — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- uncomplacent — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- uncomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- uncomposable — not fit for composition
- uncomputable — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- uneconomical — avoiding waste or extravagance; thrifty: an economical meal; an economical use of interior space.
- unemployable — unsuitable for employment; unable to find or keep a job.
- unfathomable — not able to be fathomed, or completely understood; incomprehensible: heroism in the face of unfathomable conflict.
- unformalized — not formalized
- unformidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- unformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- unglamorized — not glamorized
- unhandsomely — unattractively
- unimolecular — of or involving only one molecular entity
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
- unmodifiable — incapable of being modified
- unnormalized — to make normal.
- unornamental — not decorative
- unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- unreformable — not able to be reformed or reclaimed
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- vocal memnon — one of the two seated figures of the Colossus of Memnon: so called because it once emitted sounds when struck by the rays of the rising sun.
- wall-mounted — hung on a wall
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
- womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
- zorn's lemma — a theorem of set theory that if every totally ordered subset of a nonempty partially ordered set has an upper bound, then there is an element in the set such that the set contains no element greater than the specified given element.