12-letter words containing m, e, t, s
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- impressments — Plural form of impressment.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- imprisonment — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- improvements — Plural form of improvement.
- impudentness — Quality of being impudent.
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- incompetents — Plural form of incompetent.
- increasement — (rare) An increase; growth.
- indemnitors' — a person or company that gives indemnity.
- inhumanities — Plural form of inhumanity.
- insectariums — Plural form of insectarium.
- inseminating — Present participle of inseminate.
- insemination — to inject semen into (the female reproductive tract); impregnate.
- inspiritment — to infuse spirit or life into; enliven.
- installments — Plural form of installment.
- 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.
- intellimouse — Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
- intempestive — untimely or inopportune
- intermarries — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermarry.
- intermeddles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermeddle.
- intermeshing — That mesh between one another.
- intermingles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermingle.
- 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.
- intermissive — of, relating to, or characterized by intermission.
- interregnums — Plural form of interregnum.
- intersegment — Between segments.
- interstitium — (medicine) An interstitial space within a tissue or organ.
- intimateness — Quality of being intimate.
- intumescence — a swelling up, as with congestion.
- involvements — Plural form of involvement.
- ipsedixitism — An unfounded, false and dogmatic assertion.
- iridectomies — Plural form of iridectomy.
- isodiametric — having equal diameters or axes.
- isoenzymatic — isoenzymic
- isoperimeter — a figure whose perimeter is equal to that of another.
- isoperimetry — the study of isoperimeters.
- isostemonous — having stamens equal in number to the sepals or petals.
- isothermally — occurring at constant temperature.
- james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- 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
- juste milieu — a point between two extremes; the golden mean.
- juste-milieu — a point between two extremes; the golden mean.
- 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.
- keratotomies — Plural form of keratotomy.
- lamentations — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- laminotomies — Plural form of laminotomy.