12-letter words containing r, m, e
- hydrobromide — a salt formed by the direct union of hydrobromic acid and an organic base, especially an alkaloid, usually more soluble than the base.
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- hydrometeors — Plural form of hydrometeor.
- hydrothermal — noting or pertaining to the action of hot, aqueous solutions or gases within or on the surface of the earth.
- hygrothermal — (physics) Of or pertaining to both humidity and temperature.
- hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
- hymenopteron — hymenopteran.
- hyperchromic — (physics, chemistry) Describing an increase in the intensity of a spectral band due to a change in the molecular environment.
- hypercomplex — (mathematics) Describing any of several types of higher-dimensional numbers having some characteristics of complex numbers.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hyperendemic — manifesting a high and persistent occurrence
- hyperkalemia — an abnormally high concentration of potassium in the blood.
- hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- hyperlipemia — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; lipemia.
- hyperlipemic — characterized by an excessive level of fat in the blood
- hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- hypermarkets — Plural form of hypermarket.
- hypermediacy — Hypermedia literacy; the state of being conversant with hypermedia technologies.
- hypermetropy — Dated form of hypermetropia.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- hyperosmolar — Of, pertaining to, or as a result of hyperosmolarity.
- hyperrealism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- hypersarcoma — a growth of proud or fungous flesh
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hyperthermal — Also, thermic. of, relating to, or caused by heat or temperature: thermal capacity.
- hyperthermia — Pathology. abnormally high fever.
- hyperthermic — Having a very high body temperature.
- hypervolemia — (medicine) An abnormal increase in the volume of blood circulating through the body.
- hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
- hysterectomy — excision of the uterus.
- hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- ian maclaren — James Dewey, born 1928, U.S. biologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
- iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
- icbm address — (networking, humour) (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
- idea hamster — a person who is employed as a source of new ideas
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- ill-informed — lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.
- ill-mannered — having bad or poor manners; impolite; discourteous; rude.
- ill-tempered — bad or irritable disposition.
- illiberalism — narrowminded; bigoted.
- imagineering — the implementing of creative ideas into practical form.
- immaterially — In an immaterial manner.
- immatureness — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.
- immaturities — Plural form of immaturity.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immemorially — In an immemorial manner.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- immersionism — the doctrine that immersion is essential to Christian baptism.