12-letter words containing r, m, c
- impermanence — not permanent or enduring; transitory.
- impermanency — Alternative form of impermanence.
- impertinence — unmannerly intrusion or presumption; insolence.
- impertinency — impertinence.
- impierceable — not able to be pierced
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- incendiarism — the act or practice of an arsonist; malicious burning.
- inclinometer — Aeronautics. an instrument for measuring the angle an aircraft makes with the horizontal.
- income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incomparably — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- inconformity — lack of conformity; failure or refusal to conform; nonconformity.
- increasement — (rare) An increase; growth.
- incrementing — Present participle of increment.
- incriminated — Simple past tense and past participle of incriminate.
- incumbrancer — (legal) One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.
- inharmonical — Alternative form of inharmonic.
- insectariums — Plural form of insectarium.
- intemperance — excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages.
- 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
- intermediacy — the state of being intermediate or of acting intermediately.
- intermercial — interstitial
- intermitotic — occurring between mitoses
- intra-atomic — within an atom or atoms.
- intracompany — occurring within a company, especially between employees or branches of the company.
- intrenchment — Archaic spelling of entrenchment.
- iridectomies — Plural form of iridectomy.
- iridectomize — to perform an iridectomy on.
- isochromatic — Optics. having the same color or tint.
- isodiametric — having equal diameters or axes.
- jasmine rice — an aromatic, flavorful long-grain rice of Asia, especially Thailand.
- jim crow law — any state law discriminating against black persons.
- killer micro — [Popularised by Eugene Brooks] A microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of the downsizers. Used especially of RISC architectures. The popularity of the phrase "attack of the killer micros" is doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" (one of the canonical examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has even more flavour now that killer micros have gone on the offensive not just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within massively parallel computers).
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- lachrymation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
- lachrymatory — of, relating to, or causing the shedding of tears.
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lacrimal sac — the dilated upper portion of the nasolacrimal duct that receives tears from the lacrimal ducts.
- lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
- lamprophyric — belonging or relating to a lamprophyre
- laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.