12-letter words containing m, l, i, n, e
- blind-emboss — blind-stamp.
- bloemfontein — a city in central South Africa: capital of Free State province and judicial capital of the country. Pop: 111 698 (2001)
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
- call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
- caramelizing — Present participle of caramelize.
- central time — standard time or daylight saving time in the time zone which includes the central states of the U.S.
- ceremonially — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- child minder — a person who looks after children, esp those whose parents are working
- child-minder — a baby-sitter.
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- citron melon — a kind of fruit with a hard white flesh, that grows on a variety of watermelon plant (Citrullus lanatus var. citroides): used only candied or preserved
- clay mineral — any of a group of minerals consisting of hydrated aluminium silicates: the major constituents of clays
- clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
- clement viii — (Ippolito Aldobrandini) 1536–1605, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1592–1605.
- clement xiii — (Carlo della Torre Rezzonico) 1693–1769, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1758–69.
- cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
- clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- closing time — Closing time is the time when something such as a shop, library, or pub closes and people have to leave.
- cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- command line — typed instructions that access a computer system
- commensalism — a close association or union between two kinds of organisms, in which one is benefited by the relationship and the other is neither benefited nor harmed
- commensality — eating together at the same table.
- commentarial — a series of comments, explanations, or annotations: a commentary on the Bible; news followed by a commentary.
- commonalties — Plural form of commonalty.
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- compellation — appellation
- compellingly — in a way that demands attention and interest
- complainable — That may be complained of.
- complaintive — Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
- complaisance — deference to the wishes of others; willing compliance
- complections — Plural form of complection.
- complexation — the formation of a complex
- complexional — Relating to complexion.
- complexioned — of a specified complexion
- compliancies — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
- complimental — complimentary
- complimented — Simple past tense and past participle of compliment.
- complimenter — a person who compliments
- componential — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
- contaminable — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- contemptible — If you feel that someone or something is contemptible, you feel strong dislike and disrespect for them.
- contemptibly — deserving of or held in contempt; despicable.
- contumelious — rude in a contemptuous way; insulting and humiliating
- councilwomen — Plural form of councilwoman.
- counterclaim — a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff