12-letter words containing r, o, s, e, m
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- imprisonment — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- improperness — Quality of being improper.
- improvements — Plural form of improvement.
- indemnitors' — a person or company that gives indemnity.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- 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.
- iridectomies — Plural form of iridectomy.
- ironmonger's — a shop where articles for the house and garden such as tools, nails, and pans are sold
- isodiametric — having equal diameters or axes.
- isoperimeter — a figure whose perimeter is equal to that of another.
- isoperimetry — the study of isoperimeters.
- isothermally — occurring at constant temperature.
- 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
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- keratotomies — Plural form of keratotomy.
- ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
- lamprophyres — Plural form of lamprophyre.
- laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
- leptospermum — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Leptospermum, of the myrtle family, native to Australia and adjacent areas and often cultivated as ornamentals in milder climates.
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- lobster moth — a large sombre-hued prominent moth, Stauropus fagi, that when at rest resembles dead leaves. The modified thoracic legs of the larva, carried curled over its body, look like a lobster's claw
- 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.
- 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-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.
- luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
- macrogametes — Plural form of macrogamete.
- macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- macrosegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
- madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
- major orders — the degree or grade of priesthood, diaconate, or subdiaconate.
- make history — do sth of great significance
- make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- mare nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
- marie louise — 1791–1847, 2nd wife of Napoleon I: empress of France; duchess of Parma 1816–31 (daughter of Francis II of Austria; mother of Napoleon II).
- marine corps — a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces trained for land, sea, and air combat, typically for land combat in conjunction with an amphibious or airborne landing, and whose commandant is responsible to the secretary of the navy.
- marionettist — A puppeteer who controls a marionette.
- market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
- marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- massotherapy — treatment by massage.