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

  • 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.
  • intromittent — to send, put, or let in; introduce; admit.
  • 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
  • isostemonous — having stamens equal in number to the sepals or petals.
  • james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
  • 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]>.
  • journey time — the time taken to make a journey
  • journeywoman — The female equivalent of a journeyman.
  • jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury
  • keep company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
  • keeping room — hall (def 11).
  • ken thompson — (person)   The principal inventor of the Unix operating system and author of the B language, the predecessor of C. In the early days Ken used to hand-cut Unix distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalised, because it's a login name and mail address) in third-person reference; it is widely understood (on Usenet in particular) that without a last name "Ken" refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without last name means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). Ken was first hired to work on the Multics project, which was a huge production with many people working on it. Multics was supposed to support hundreds of on-line logins but could barely handle three. In 1969, when Bell Labs withdrew from the project, Ken got fed up with Multics and went off to write his own operating system. People said "well, if zillions of people wrote Multics, then an OS written by one guy must be Unix!". There was some joking about eunichs as well. Ken's wife Bonnie and son Corey (then 18 months old) went to visit family in San Diego. Ken spent one week each on the kernel, file system, etc., and finished UNIX in one month along with developing SPACEWAR (or was it "Space Travel"?). See also back door, brute force, demigod, wumpus.
  • kenny method — a method of treating poliomyelitis, in which hot, moist packs are applied to affected muscles to relieve spasms and pain, and a regimen of exercises is prescribed to prevent deformities and to strengthen the muscles.
  • kingdom come — the next world; the hereafter; heaven.
  • kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
  • know by name — to have heard of without having met
  • 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)
  • kremlinology — the study of the government of the former Soviet Union, especially the study of those factors governing its foreign affairs.
  • la mano nera — Black Hand (def 1).
  • lamellaphone — Alt form lamellophone.
  • lamellophone — (musical instruments) Any of several musical instruments in which the sound is produced by plucking a series of thin lamellaa attached to a sounding board.
  • lamentations — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
  • laminotomies — Plural form of laminotomy.
  • laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • lemon butter — a spread made of butter flavored with lemon
  • lemon cheese — a soft paste made from lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter, used as a spread or filling
  • lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
  • lemon yellow — a clear, yellowish-green color.
  • leontopodium — any plant of the Eurasian alpine genus Leontopodium, esp L. alpinum
  • lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
  • linear motor — an electric motor in which a movable part moves in a straight line, with power being supplied by a varying magnetic field set up by a fixed part of the system, as a metal rail on the ground.
  • little women — a novel (1868) by Louisa May Alcott.
  • locum tenens — a temporary substitute, especially for a doctor or member of the clergy.
  • logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
  • lonesomeness — depressed or sad because of the lack of friends, companionship, etc.; lonely: to feel lonesome.
  • 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.
  • long-stemmed — having a long stem or stems: long-stemmed roses.
  • long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
  • longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
  • longsomeness — tiresome lengthiness
  • lose no time — act without delay
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