12-letter words containing n, a, g, m, i
- high command — the leadership or highest authority of a military command or other organization.
- hill farming — the activity and business of having a hill farm
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- 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.
- homologation — to approve; confirm or ratify.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- illuminating — to enlighten, as with knowledge.
- imagineering — the implementing of creative ideas into practical form.
- immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
- imogene coca — Imogene, 1908–2001, U.S. comic actress.
- imparadising — Present participle of imparadise.
- impassioning — Present participle of impassion.
- implantology — the branch of dentistry dealing with the permanent implantation or attachment of artificial teeth in the jaw.
- impregnating — Present participle of impregnate.
- impregnation — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- in agreement — of the same opinion
- in-migration — to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory.
- incompassing — Present participle of incompass.
- infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
- ingeminating — Present participle of ingeminate.
- ingemination — Repetition; reduplication; reiteration.
- inline image — (web) An image that appears within the body of a web page. Most graphical web browsers display images inline (with an option to turn off inline images, to speed up the display of web pages). Other image formats may have to be displayed in a separate window and/or by another application program. An inline image in a web page is specified with the
HTML tag, which can take many attributes, the most important of which is the SRC attribute that gives the URL from which to fetch the image. The ALT attribute gives text to display in place of the image for users with images disabled or who are using text-only browsers or text-to-speech convertors (e.g. blind users).
- inseminating — Present participle of inseminate.
- intimidating — to make timid; fill with fear.
- itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
- ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
- jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- jumping jack — a toy consisting of a jointed figure that is made to jump, move, or dance by pulling a string or stick attached to it.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- karyomapping — a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives
- kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
- king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
- kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
- landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
- latent image — an invisible image, produced on a sensitized emulsion by exposure to light, that will emerge in development.
- leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
- legitimating — Present participle of legitimate.
- legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
- limnological — Of or pertaining to limnology, the study of freshwater bodies of water.
- line manager — immediate supervisor
- lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
- loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
- lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution