12-letter words containing m, e, n, s, u
- immatureness — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- immune serum — a serum containing naturally or artificially produced antibodies to a given antigen, obtained from human or animal sources.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- impudentness — Quality of being impudent.
- in a measure — to an extent
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incumbencies — Plural form of incumbency.
- 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.
- instrumented — equipped with instruments to perform specified functions, as testing, measurement, or control: an instrumented railroad car.
- insubmissive — Unwilling to submit; not submissive, disobedient.
- intellimouse — Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
- interregnums — Plural form of interregnum.
- interstitium — (medicine) An interstitial space within a tissue or organ.
- intumescence — a swelling up, as with congestion.
- isostemonous — having stamens equal in number to the sepals or petals.
- james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- just in time — Business. noting or pertaining to a method of inventory control that keeps inventories low by scheduling needed goods and equipment to arrive a short time before a production run begins. Abbreviation: JIT.
- just-in-time — dynamic translation
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
- locum tenens — a temporary substitute, especially for a doctor or member of the clergy.
- 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.
- lounge music — a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- luminescence — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
- luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
- luminosities — Plural form of luminosity.
- luminousness — The condition of being luminous.
- macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
- magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
- manicure set — a set of small tools designed for trimming and caring for the nails
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- mantoux test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to an intracutaneous injection of tuberculin indicates a previous or current infection.
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
- mao tse-tung — 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.
- mare nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
- mare sirenum — (Sea of Sirens) an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.