12-letter words containing m, e, t, l, s
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- oil minister — a government official responsible for the oil industry in their country
- omnisciently — having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.
- oscillometer — an instrument for measuring oscillations, especially those of the arterial pulse.
- oscillometry — an instrument for measuring oscillations, especially those of the arterial pulse.
- osteomalacia — a condition characterized by softening of the bones with resultant pain, weakness, and bone fragility, caused by inadequate deposition of calcium or vitamin D.
- osteomalacic — a condition characterized by softening of the bones with resultant pain, weakness, and bone fragility, caused by inadequate deposition of calcium or vitamin D.
- overmodestly — in an extremely modest manner
- palimpsestic — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
- photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- planetesimal — one of the small celestial bodies that, according to one theory (planetesimal hypothesis) were fused together to form the planets of the solar system.
- pleiotropism — the condition of a gene affecting more than one characteristic of the phenotype
- polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
- postal meter — a postal franking machine
- postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- reassimilate — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- reenlistment — an act of reenlisting.
- reinstalment — a further or new instalment
- remnant sale — a sale of items that are unwanted or left over, sold at a lower price
- resettlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
- rimmed steel — a low-carbon steel containing enough iron oxide so that there is continuous generation of carbon monoxide during solidification.
- rumble strip — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- sacramentals — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
- salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
- saltpetreman — a supplier of saltpetre
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
- san clemente — a town in S California.
- saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- scribblement — a scribble
- sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
- sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
- seismologist — the science or study of earthquakes and their phenomena.
- self-limited — (of a disease) running a definite and limited course.
- self-mastery — self-control.
- self-torment — an act or instance of tormenting oneself, as with worry or guilt.
- semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- semi-trailer — Also called semi. a detachable trailer for hauling freight, with wheels at the rear end, the forward end being supported by the rear of a truck tractor when attached. Compare full trailer.
- semifinalist — a participant or one qualified to participate in a semifinal.