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12-letter words containing m, o, e, n, t

  • fomentations — Plural form of fomentation.
  • footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
  • forebodement — The act of foreboding.
  • fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
  • front matter — all material in a book that precedes the text proper, as the title page, copyright page, table of contents, dedication, and preface.
  • frontiersman — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
  • frontiersmen — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
  • 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).
  • frumentation — (in ancient Rome) a public donation of grain, often given to citizens during times of unease
  • fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
  • galvanometer — an instrument for detecting the existence of small electric currents and determining their strength.
  • galvanometry — the method or process of determining the strength of electric currents.
  • gammon steak — a thick cut of meat made from smoked or cured bacon or ham and often served with pineapple or fried egg
  • gangliectomy — (medicine) Excision of a ganglion; surgical removal of a mass of tissue.
  • gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
  • gastronomies — Plural form of gastronomy.
  • gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
  • geomagnetism — the earth's magnetic field and associated phenomena.
  • geomagnetist — someone who studies, or is an expert in, geomagnetism
  • geometrician — a person skilled in geometry.
  • germinations — Plural form of germination.
  • gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
  • gingivectomy — surgical removal of gum tissue.
  • gnathostomes — Plural form of gnathostome.
  • governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
  • gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
  • gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
  • haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
  • haematoxylon — any thorny leguminous tree of the genus Haematoxylon, esp the logwood, of tropical America and SW Africa. The heartwood yields the dye haematoxylin
  • haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
  • hambletonian — one of a superior strain of American trotting horses descended from the stallion Hambletonian.
  • harmonometer — the equipment used for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds
  • harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
  • hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
  • hemangiomata — See under angioma.
  • hematogenous — originating in the blood.
  • hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
  • hemodilution — a decreased concentration of cells and solids in blood, usually caused by an influx of fluid.
  • herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
  • heteronomous — subject to or involving different laws.
  • heteronymous — of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
  • hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
  • home country — the country a person comes from
  • home posting — an appointment to a position within one's own country
  • home staging — the professional service of preparing homes for sale in such a way as to appeal to potential buyers and generate higher selling prices: Realtors who encourage sellers to invest in home staging are reporting substantial monetary returns—for both themselves and their clients.
  • homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
  • homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
  • honor system — a system whereby the students at a school, the inmates in a prison, etc., are put on their honor to observe certain rules in order to minimize administrative supervision or to promote honesty.
  • house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
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