12-letter words containing m, i, l, o, e
- impressional — a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- in name only — not in fact or in practice
- in old money — according to the old system
- inclinometer — Aeronautics. an instrument for measuring the angle an aircraft makes with the horizontal.
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incompatible — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incompletely — not complete; lacking some part.
- incompletion — the state of being incomplete; incompleteness.
- incompliance — not compliant; unyielding.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- inflammasome — (biochemistry) A multi-protein complex that is responsible for inflammatory rheumatic diseases via activation of caspases.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- innominables — trousers
- insomnolence — sleeplessness; insomnia: a troubled week of insomnolence.
- intellimouse — Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
- interfemoral — situated between the thighs
- involvements — Plural form of involvement.
- irreformable — insusceptible to reforming influences; incorrigible.
- irreformably — in an irreformable manner
- isothermally — occurring at constant temperature.
- john gilmore — (person) A noted Unix hacker who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with Brian Reid. He also worked on GDB. E-mail: John Gilmore <[email protected]>.
- killer micro — [Popularised by Eugene Brooks] A microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of the downsizers. Used especially of RISC architectures. The popularity of the phrase "attack of the killer micros" is doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" (one of the canonical examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has even more flavour now that killer micros have gone on the offensive not just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within massively parallel computers).
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- kremlinology — the study of the government of the former Soviet Union, especially the study of those factors governing its foreign affairs.
- ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
- lamentations — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- laminotomies — Plural form of laminotomy.
- laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
- laparotomize — to perform a laparotomy on.
- legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- leontopodium — any plant of the Eurasian alpine genus Leontopodium, esp L. alpinum
- lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
- leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
- leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
- liberum veto — a veto exercised by a single member of a legislative body whose rules require unanimity.
- light bomber — a small airplane designed to carry light bomb loads relatively short distances, especially one having a gross loaded weight of less than 100,000 pounds (45,000 kg).
- light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
- lime cordial — a drink made from sweetened lime juice and plain or carbonated water
- linear motor — an electric motor in which a movable part moves in a straight line, with power being supplied by a varying magnetic field set up by a fixed part of the system, as a metal rail on the ground.
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- little women — a novel (1868) by Louisa May Alcott.
- 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.
- long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
- loose-limbed — having supple arms and legs: a loose-limbed athlete.