12-letter words containing s, e, m, i, c
- hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
- helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hemiscotosis — hemianopsia.
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
- hemstitching — Present participle of hemstitch.
- hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
- histochemist — someone who specializes in histochemistry
- homesickness — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- 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.)
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- impeachments — Plural form of impeachment.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- implicitness — The state or quality of being implicit.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- incendiarism — the act or practice of an arsonist; malicious burning.
- inclemencies — (of the weather, the elements, etc.) severe, rough, or harsh; stormy.
- incompetents — Plural form of incompetent.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- increasement — (rare) An increase; growth.
- incumbencies — Plural form of incumbency.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- insectariums — Plural form of insectarium.
- insomnolence — sleeplessness; insomnia: a troubled week of insomnolence.
- intumescence — a swelling up, as with congestion.
- iridectomies — Plural form of iridectomy.
- isodiametric — having equal diameters or axes.
- isoenzymatic — isoenzymic
- james dickey — James, 1923–97, U.S. poet and novelist.
- jasmine rice — an aromatic, flavorful long-grain rice of Asia, especially Thailand.
- legitimistic — inclined towards, or relating to, the opinions of legitimists
- leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- 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.
- lounge music — a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.
- luminescence — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
- lumpectomies — Plural form of lumpectomy.
- macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- magic square — a square containing integers arranged in an equal number of rows and columns so that the sum of the integers in any row, column, or diagonal is the same.
- magistracies — Plural form of magistracy.
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- maintenances — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.