12-letter words containing m, e, s, o, n
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- humorousness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being humorous.
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- immersionism — the doctrine that immersion is essential to Christian baptism.
- immiseration — to make miserable.
- impassionate — filled with passion; impassioned.
- impersonally — In an impersonal manner.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impersonates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impersonate.
- impersonator — a person who pretends to be another.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- implementors — Plural form of implementor.
- impoliteness — not polite or courteous; discourteous; rude: an impolite reply.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imposingness — The quality of being imposing.
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- impressional — a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- imprisonment — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- improperness — Quality of being improper.
- improvements — Plural form of improvement.
- incompetents — Plural form of incompetent.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- indemnitors' — a person or company that gives indemnity.
- infamousness — The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
- inflammasome — (biochemistry) A multi-protein complex that is responsible for inflammatory rheumatic diseases via activation of caspases.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- innominables — trousers
- insemination — to inject semen into (the female reproductive tract); impregnate.
- insomnolence — sleeplessness; insomnia: a troubled week of insomnolence.
- intellimouse — Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
- intermission — a short interval between the acts of a play or parts of a public performance, usually a period of approximately 10 or 15 minutes, allowing the performers and audience a rest.
- involvements — Plural form of involvement.
- ironmonger's — a shop where articles for the house and garden such as tools, nails, and pans are sold
- isoenzymatic — isoenzymic
- isostemonous — having stamens equal in number to the sepals or petals.
- james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime
- ken thompson — (person) The principal inventor of the Unix operating system and author of the B language, the predecessor of C. In the early days Ken used to hand-cut Unix distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalised, because it's a login name and mail address) in third-person reference; it is widely understood (on Usenet in particular) that without a last name "Ken" refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without last name means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). Ken was first hired to work on the Multics project, which was a huge production with many people working on it. Multics was supposed to support hundreds of on-line logins but could barely handle three. In 1969, when Bell Labs withdrew from the project, Ken got fed up with Multics and went off to write his own operating system. People said "well, if zillions of people wrote Multics, then an OS written by one guy must be Unix!". There was some joking about eunichs as well. Ken's wife Bonnie and son Corey (then 18 months old) went to visit family in San Diego. Ken spent one week each on the kernel, file system, etc., and finished UNIX in one month along with developing SPACEWAR (or was it "Space Travel"?). See also back door, brute force, demigod, wumpus.
- lamentations — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- laminotomies — Plural form of laminotomy.
- lemon cheese — a soft paste made from lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter, used as a spread or filling
- 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.
- 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.
- lonesomeness — depressed or sad because of the lack of friends, companionship, etc.; lonely: to feel lonesome.