12-letter words containing m, e, r, l, s
- implementors — Plural form of implementor.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- impressional — a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
- impressively — having the ability to impress the mind; arousing admiration, awe, respect, etc.; moving; admirable: an impressive ceremony; an impressive appearance.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- intermeddles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermeddle.
- intermingles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermingle.
- irremissible — not remissible; unpardonable, as a sin.
- irremissibly — In an irremissible manner; unpardonably.
- isothermally — occurring at constant temperature.
- ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
- lammergeiers — Plural form of lammergeier.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- lamprophyres — Plural form of lamprophyre.
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
- 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.
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- leisure time — free time
- leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
- leptospermum — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Leptospermum, of the myrtle family, native to Australia and adjacent areas and often cultivated as ornamentals in milder climates.
- lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
- limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- litmus paper — a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.
- lobster moth — a large sombre-hued prominent moth, Stauropus fagi, that when at rest resembles dead leaves. The modified thoracic legs of the larva, carried curled over its body, look like a lobster's claw
- logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- 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.
- long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
- 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.
- luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
- mackerel sky — an extensive group of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, especially when well-marked in their arrangement: so called because of a resemblance to the scales on a mackerel.
- 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.
- male-sterile — producing no pollen or infertile pollen.
- malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
- malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
- mannerliness — Politeness, good manners.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- marcellus ii — (Marcello Cervini) 1501–55, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1555.
- mare clausum — a body of navigable water under the sole jurisdiction of a nation.
- marginal sea — water that lies alongside a state, falls under its authority, and extends about 3½ statute miles (6 kilometers) from the coast.