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11-letter words containing s, e, m, i, r

  • internments — Plural form of internment.
  • intersystem — an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
  • iridotomies — Plural form of iridotomy.
  • irksomeness — The state of being irksome; vexatiousness; tediousness; wearisomeness.
  • ironmongers — Plural form of ironmonger.
  • irredentism — (usually initial capital letter) a member of an Italian association that became prominent in 1878, advocating the redemption, or the incorporation into Italy, of certain neighboring regions (Italia irredenta) having a primarily Italian population.
  • irremission — the fact of not being pardoned or forgiven
  • irremissive — unremitting or incessant
  • isallotherm — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature variations within a given period of time.
  • isogeotherm — an imaginary line connecting all points within the earth having the same mean temperature.
  • isomerizing — Present participle of isomerize.
  • isometrical — Dated form of isometric.
  • isometropia — equality of refraction in the two eyes of an individual.
  • james riley — James Whitcomb [hwit-kuh m,, wit-] /ˈʰwɪt kəm,, ˈwɪt-/ (Show IPA), 1849–1916, U.S. poet.
  • jiggermasts — Plural form of jiggermast.
  • kinesimeter — An instrument for the quantitative measurement of movements.
  • lambrequins — Plural form of lambrequin.
  • leprosarium — a hospital for the treatment of lepers.
  • libertinism — libertine practices or habits of life; disregard of authority or convention in sexual or religious matters.
  • lime sulfur — a mixture of lime and sulfur that has been boiled in water: used in powdered form or in aqueous solution as an insecticide, a fungicide, and a sheep dip.
  • literaryism — habitual use of literary forms
  • littermates — Plural form of littermate.
  • lorem ipsum — (text)   A common piece of text used as mock-content when testing a given page layout or font. The following text is often used: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetaur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." This continues at length and variously. The text is not really Greek, but badly garbled Latin. It started life as extracted phrases from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of Cicero's "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" ("The Extremes of Good and Evil"), which read: Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur? At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga. Et harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio. Nam libero tempore, cum soluta nobis est eligendi optio cumque nihil impedit quo minus id quod maxime placeat facere possimus, omnis voluptas assumenda est, omnis dolor repellendus. Temporibus autem quibusdam et aut officiis debitis aut rerum necessitatibus saepe eveniet ut et voluptates repudiandae sint et molestiae non recusandae. Itaque earum rerum hic tenetur a sapiente delectus, ut aut reiciendis voluptatibus maiores alias consequatur aut perferendis doloribus asperiores repellat. Translation: But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. -- Translation by H. Rackham, from his 1914 edition of De Finibus. However, since textual fidelity was unimportant to the goal of having random text to fill a page, it has degraded over the centuries, into "Lorem ipsum...". The point of using this text, or some other text of incidental intelligibility, is that it has a more-or-less normal (for English and Latin, at least) distribution of ascenders, descenders, and word-lengths, as opposed to just using "abc 123 abc 123", "Content here content here", or the like. The text is often used when previewing the layout of a document, as the use of more understandable text would distract the user from the layout being examined. A related technique is greeking.
  • lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
  • lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
  • macdesigner — A design CASE tool for the Mac from Excel Software, Inc.
  • machineries — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
  • magisterial — of, relating to, or befitting a master; authoritative; weighty; of importance or consequence: a magisterial pronouncement by the director of the board.
  • magisterium — the authority and power of the church to teach religious truth.
  • magistrates — Plural form of magistrate.
  • maidservant — a female servant.
  • mail orders — goods that have been ordered by mail order
  • mail server — 1.   (tool, messaging)   A program that distributes files or information in response to requests sent via electronic mail. Examples on the Internet include Almanac and netlib. Mail servers are also used on Bitnet. In the days before Internet access was widespread and UUCP mail links were common, mail servers could be used to provide remote services which might now be provided via FTP or WWW. 2.   (messaging)   (Or "mail hub") A computer used to store and/or forward electronic mail.
  • mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
  • main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
  • main street — a novel (1920) by Sinclair Lewis.
  • mainlanders — Plural form of mainlander.
  • mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
  • mainstreams — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mainstream.
  • maintainers — Plural form of maintainer.
  • malingerers — Plural form of malingerer.
  • maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
  • mammiferous — having mammae; mammalian.
  • managership — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
  • mandataries — Plural form of mandatary.
  • mandatories — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
  • manneristic — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
  • manniferous — resulting in or producing manna
  • marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
  • marcellus i — Saint, died a.d. 309, pope 308–309.
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