12-letter words containing m, i, l, a, n, s
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- neoplatonism — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
- noctambulism — somnambulism.
- noctambulist — somnambulism.
- nominalistic — (philosophy) Having a nominalist character.
- nonformalism — Absence of, or a belief system that is the opposite of, formalism.
- normalities' — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- numismatical — Alternative form of numismatic.
- nuptial mass — a special mass said at a wedding.
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- omnishambles — Chiefly British Informal. a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences.
- onomasiology — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.
- palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palm islands — a group of three man-made island systems under construction just off the shore in Dubai, each in the shape of a palm tree
- palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
- pan-islamism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
- panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- 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.
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- pollyannaism — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- qualmishness — The quality of being qualmish.
- quasi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- reinstalment — a further or new instalment
- saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
- sal ammoniac — ammonium chloride.
- salamandrian — a salamander of the order Batrachia
- salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
- salamandroid — an amphibian of the genus Salamandra
- salesmanship — the technique of selling a product: They used a promotional gimmick that was the last word in salesmanship.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- saltationism — any of several theories holding that the evolution of species proceeds in major steps by the abrupt transformation of an ancestral species into a descendant species of a different type, rather than by the gradual accumulation of small changes.
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
- scapulimancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
- sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
- self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
- semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semi-invalid — a person who is partially disabled or somewhat infirm
- semiannually — occurring, done, or published every half year or twice a year; semiyearly.
- semicolonial — partly colonial