12-letter words containing n, i, m, o
- inhalatorium — a room or building in which vapours are breathed in
- inharmonical — Alternative form of inharmonic.
- inharmonious — not harmonious; discordant; unmelodious.
- inimicitious — inimical
- inkhorn term — an obscure, affectedly or ostentatiously erudite borrowing from another language, especially Latin or Greek.
- innominables — trousers
- insemination — to inject semen into (the female reproductive tract); impregnate.
- insomnolence — sleeplessness; insomnia: a troubled week of insomnolence.
- insubmission — Lack of submission; disobedience.
- intellimouse — Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
- intercommune — to commune or converse together
- intercompany — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- intercompare — (of members of a group) to compare each member against all other members
- interfemoral — situated between the thighs
- intermission — a short interval between the acts of a play or parts of a public performance, usually a period of approximately 10 or 15 minutes, allowing the performers and audience a rest.
- intermitotic — occurring between mitoses
- intermontane — located between mountains or mountain ranges: an intermontane lake.
- intimidation — to make timid; fill with fear.
- intimidators — Plural form of intimidator.
- intimidatory — to make timid; fill with fear.
- intra-atomic — within an atom or atoms.
- intracompany — occurring within a company, especially between employees or branches of the company.
- intromission — to send, put, or let in; introduce; admit.
- intromittent — to send, put, or let in; introduce; admit.
- intromitting — Present participle of intromit.
- intuitionism — Ethics. the doctrine that moral values and duties can be discerned directly.
- involvements — Plural form of involvement.
- ironmonger's — a shop where articles for the house and garden such as tools, nails, and pans are sold
- isoenzymatic — isoenzymic
- isolationism — the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities.
- isostemonous — having stamens equal in number to the sepals or petals.
- jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime
- john gilmore — (person) A noted Unix hacker who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with Brian Reid. He also worked on GDB. E-mail: John Gilmore <[email protected]>.
- joint family — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
- journey time — the time taken to make a journey
- jumpstations — Plural form of jumpstation.
- karyomapping — a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives
- keeping room — hall (def 11).
- 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 come — the next world; the hereafter; heaven.
- kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- kremlinology — the study of the government of the former Soviet Union, especially the study of those factors governing its foreign affairs.
- labia minora — female genitals: inner folds of skin
- lachrymation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
- lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
- lamentations — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- laminar flow — the flow of a viscous fluid in which particles of the fluid move in parallel layers, each of which has a constant velocity but is in motion relative to its neighboring layers.
- laminotomies — Plural form of laminotomy.
- legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.