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11-letter words containing s, e, m, l

  • etymologist — A lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words).
  • exclusivism — The action or policy of excluding a person or group from a place, group, or privilege.
  • exemplifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exemplify.
  • externalism — Excessive regard for outward form in religion.
  • false alarm — a false report of a fire in progress to a fire department.
  • familiarise — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
  • field mouse — any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.
  • filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • file system — (operating system)   (FS, or "filesystem") 1. A system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. E.g., "The Macintosh file system is just dandy as long as you don't have to interface it with any other file systems". 2. The collection of files and directories stored on a given drive (floppy drive, hard drive, disk partition, logical drive, RAM drive, etc.). E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page for "mount(8)". As an extension of this sense, "file system" is sometimes used to refer to the representatation of the file system's organisation (e.g. its file allocation table) as opposed the actual content of the files in the file system.
  • filmsetting — photocomposition.
  • flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
  • flash eprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
  • flash meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
  • flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
  • fleshmonger — (archaic) One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp, procurer, or pander.
  • fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
  • flushometer — a device for flushing toilets that uses system pressure rather than gravity and automatically shuts off after a measured amount of water flow in order to conserve water.
  • flusterment — the state of being flustered
  • foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
  • fool's mate — a checkmate achieved by Black's second move: the quickest possible mate
  • foreglimpse — a revelation or glimpse of the future.
  • formalities — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
  • formularies — Plural form of formulary.
  • formularise — (British) To express as a formula, to formulate.
  • free sample — taster of sth offered at no charge
  • fuel system — The fuel system in a vehicle is the combination of parts needed to carry fuel into and out of the engine.
  • fulsomeness — The state or quality of being fulsome or showing overdone and insincere flattery.
  • garmentless — Without garments.
  • gas mileage — the ratio of the number of miles travelled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned; fuel efficiency
  • gemmologist — the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstones.
  • gemologists — Plural form of gemologist.
  • genteelisms — Plural form of genteelism.
  • glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.
  • glass maker — the art of making glass or glassware.
  • glass-maker — the art of making glass or glassware.
  • glassmakers — Plural form of glassmaker.
  • glimmerings — Plural form of glimmering.
  • glossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of all or part of the tongue.
  • glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
  • glumiferous — having glumes
  • glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
  • glyoxysomes — Plural form of glyoxysome.
  • goosepimple — Alt form goose pimple.
  • gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
  • gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
  • habiliments — Plural form of habiliment.
  • hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
  • hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
  • harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
  • hegelianism — the philosophy of Hegel and his followers, characterized by the use of the Hegelian dialectic.
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