12-letter words containing s, i, m, l, n
- non-luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
- nonformalism — Absence of, or a belief system that is the opposite of, formalism.
- normalities' — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- numismatical — Alternative form of numismatic.
- nuptial mass — a special mass said at a wedding.
- oil minister — a government official responsible for the oil industry in their country
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- omnibus bill — a bill dealing with, or providing for many different things or cases
- omnisciently — having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.
- omnishambles — Chiefly British Informal. a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences.
- omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
- onomasiology — the study of the means of expressing a given concept.
- palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palm islands — a group of three man-made island systems under construction just off the shore in Dubai, each in the shape of a palm tree
- palm springs — a city in S California: resort.
- pan-islamism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
- panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
- persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- philistinism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- planetesimal — one of the small celestial bodies that, according to one theory (planetesimal hypothesis) were fused together to form the planets of the solar system.
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- pollyannaism — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
- polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- postliminium — postliminy.
- postliminous — occurring after; subsequent
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- qualmishness — The quality of being qualmish.
- quasi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- reenlistment — an act of reenlisting.
- reinstalment — a further or new instalment
- saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
- sal ammoniac — ammonium chloride.
- salamandrian — a salamander of the order Batrachia
- salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
- salamandroid — an amphibian of the genus Salamandra
- salesmanship — the technique of selling a product: They used a promotional gimmick that was the last word in salesmanship.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- saltationism — any of several theories holding that the evolution of species proceeds in major steps by the abrupt transformation of an ancestral species into a descendant species of a different type, rather than by the gradual accumulation of small changes.
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
- scapulimancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
- scribblement — a scribble