12-letter words containing s, i, m, l, n
- insulin pump — an external battery-powered device that injects insulin into the body at a programmed rate to control diabetes.
- intellimouse — Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
- intermeddles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermeddle.
- intermingles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermingle.
- involvements — Plural form of involvement.
- isolationism — the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities.
- lactalbumins — Plural form of lactalbumin.
- lamentations — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- laminotomies — Plural form of laminotomy.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- legitimising — Present participle of legitimise.
- lemnian seal — the earth of the Greek island of Lemnos, which is famous for its medicinal properties
- limnophilous — (of animals) living in lakes or freshwater marshes
- line segment — segment (def 2b).
- linseed meal — ground linseed cake.
- lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
- 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.
- lobotomising — Present participle of lobotomise.
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- 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-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
- lose no time — act without delay
- lounge music — a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.
- lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
- luminescence — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
- luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
- luminosities — Plural form of luminosity.
- luminousness — The condition of being luminous.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
- magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
- magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
- maidenliness — The state or condition of being maidenly.
- mailing list — a list of addresses to which mail, especially advertisements, can be sent.
- main-topsail — a topsail set on the mainmast.
- mains supply — electricity, water, or gas supplied to a building through wires or pipes
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
- malignancies — Plural form of malignancy.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- malocclusion — faulty occlusion; irregular contact of opposing teeth in the upper and lower jaws.
- malpositions — Plural form of malposition.
- malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- manila grass — a compact, shade-tolerant, turf-forming grass, Zoysia matrella, of southeastern Asia, having stiff leaves and flowering spikelets.
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- mannerliness — Politeness, good manners.
- mansplaining — (informal, pejorative) The act of condescendingly explaining something, particularly by a man to a female listener in order to appear knowledgable or from a mistaken presumption that she has an inferior understanding of the topic.
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.