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12-letter words containing n, a, g, m

  • 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.
  • judgment day — the day of the Last Judgment; doomsday.
  • judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
  • 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.
  • karnaugh map — A Karnaugh map is a pictorial method used to minimize Boolean expressions without having to use Boolean algebra theorems.
  • 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.
  • kolyma range — a mountain range in NE Russia, in NE Siberia, extending about 1100 km (700 miles) between the Kolyma River and the Sea of Okhotsk. Highest peak: 1862 m (6109 ft)
  • lake managua — a lake in W Nicaragua: drains into Lake Nicaragua by the Tipitapa River. Length: 61 km (38 miles). Width: about 26 km (16 miles)
  • 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.
  • laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
  • laryngospasm — An uncontrolled, spasmodic closure of the larynx.
  • 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
  • long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
  • longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • lymphangioma — a benign tumor composed of dilated and newly formed lymph vessels.
  • lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
  • macadamizing — Present participle of macadamize.
  • macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
  • macrosegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
  • magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
  • maginot line — a zone of heavy defensive fortifications erected by France along its eastern border in the years preceding World War II, but outflanked in 1940 when the German army attacked through Belgium.
  • magnet steel — steel used for the manufacture of permanent magnets, often having a high cobalt content and smaller amounts of nickel, aluminium, or copper
  • magnetic dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
  • magnetic ink — ink containing particles of a magnetic material used for printing characters for magnetic character recognition
  • magnetically — By or as by, magnetism.
  • magnetizable — susceptible to magnetization.
  • magnetograph — a recording magnetometer, used especially for recording variations in the earth's magnetic field.
  • magnetometer — an instrument for measuring the intensity of a magnetic field, especially the earth's magnetic field.
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