12-letter words containing m, e, t, l, s
- desublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- developments — Plural form of development.
- dialecticism — the influence of dialect
- dilatometers — Plural form of dilatometer.
- dilettantism — the practices or characteristics of a dilettante.
- disablements — Plural form of disablement.
- dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- dislodgement — to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- dissimilated — Simple past tense and past participle of dissimilate.
- dissimulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dissimulate.
- dissimulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissimulate.
- domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- domestically — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- drillmasters — Plural form of drillmaster.
- dusty miller — Botany. any of several composite plants, as Centaurea cineraria, Senecio cineraria, or the beach wormwood, having pinnate leaves covered with whitish pubescence. rose campion.
- dyotheletism — the teaching that Christ had both a divine will and a human will
- eliminations — Plural form of elimination.
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- emotionalism — An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics. (from 19th c.).
- emotionalist — Someone whose thoughts and actions are governed by their emotions rather than by logic.
- emplacements — Plural form of emplacement.
- enlargements — Plural form of enlargement.
- enlisted man — military: male soldier
- enophthalmos — The posterior displacement of the eyeball within the orbit due to changes in the volume of the orbit (bone) relative to its contents (the eyeball and orbital fat), or loss of function of the orbitalis muscle.
- enterostomal — relating to enterostomy
- entitlements — Plural form of entitlement.
- entomologist — A scientist who studies insects.
- enzymologist — A specialist in enzymology.
- epistemology — The theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion.
- epitheliomas — Plural form of epithelioma.
- ergastoplasm — endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
- essentialism — A belief that things have a set of characteristics that make them what they are, and that the task of science and philosophy is their discovery and expression; the doctrine that essence is prior to existence.
- etymologizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of etymologize.
- evolutionism — (countable) Any of several theories that explain the evolution of systems or organisms.
- exclamations — Plural form of exclamation.
- exophthalmos — Abnormal protrusion of the eyeball or eyeballs.
- exophthalmus — Alt form exophthalmos.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- false bottom — a horizontal partition above the actual bottom of a box, trunk, etc., especially one forming a secret compartment.
- family style — a way of serving food, as in boardinghouses and some restaurants, in which the people at the table help themselves from large dishes passed around from hand to hand
- fathomlessly — In a fathomless manner.
- fissipalmate — (of birds) having the toes lobed or partially webbed.
- flame stitch — an ornamental stitch, used on bedspreads, upholstery fabrics, and the like, producing rows of ogees in various colors.
- flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluorimeters — Plural form of fluorimeter.