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12-letter words containing m, i, s, c

  • econometrics — the application of statistical and mathematical techniques in solving problems as well as in testing and demonstrating theories.
  • econometrist — An econometrician.
  • economy size — product: large, inexpensive
  • economy-size — larger in size and costing less per unit of measurement than a smaller size: an economy-size box of soap flakes.
  • ecotarianism — the principle or practice of avoiding eating any foods whose production or transportation are considered ecologically damaging
  • ecoterrorism — Violence carried out to further environmentalist ends.
  • ectosymbiont — (biology) A partner in a symbiotic relationship that remains on the surface of its host or occupies a body cavity.
  • emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
  • emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
  • emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
  • embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
  • encompassing — Present participle of encompass.
  • epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
  • episcopalism — the belief that a Church should be governed by bishops
  • eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
  • eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
  • exclamations — Plural form of exclamation.
  • exclusionism — The quality of being exclusionist.
  • extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
  • factionalism — of a faction or factions.
  • fantasticism — the quality of being fantastic
  • fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
  • flame stitch — an ornamental stitch, used on bedspreads, upholstery fabrics, and the like, producing rows of ogees in various colors.
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • foam plastic — a kind of light cellular plastic made by creating bubbles of gas in the liquid material and solidifying it: often used as an insulator
  • frolicsomely — In a frolicsome manner.
  • fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
  • fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
  • galactosemia — an inherited disorder characterized by the inability to metabolize galactose and requiring a galactose-free diet to avoid consequent mental retardation and eye, spleen, and liver abnormalities.
  • gas dynamics — the study of the dynamic properties of gases and their thermal effects.
  • gastric mill — a gizzard in decapod crustaceans, as lobsters, crabs, and shrimps, having an arrangement of teeth and small bones for grinding food and bristles for filtering small particles.
  • gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
  • gastronomics — the cooking style typical of a region or country
  • gemeinschaft — an association of individuals having sentiments, tastes, and attitudes in common; fellowship.
  • geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
  • geoeconomics — The study of the economic trends and conditions of the world’s countries and how they are related; economics considered on the broadest global scale.
  • geomechanics — the study and application of rock and soil mechanics
  • glossematics — a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.
  • gospel music — a now popularized form of impassioned rhythmic spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of rural blacks in the American South, central to the development of rhythm and blues and of soul music.
  • graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
  • grammaticise — to make grammatical
  • grammaticism — a point or principle of grammar.
  • great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • gross income — Accounting. total revenue received before any deductions or allowances, as for rent, cost of goods sold, taxes, etc.
  • gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
  • gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
  • hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
  • helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
  • hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
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