12-letter words containing s, i, m, p, l, e
- impoliteness — not polite or courteous; discourteous; rude: an impolite reply.
- impressional — a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
- impressively — having the ability to impress the mind; arousing admiration, awe, respect, etc.; moving; admirable: an impressive ceremony; an impressive appearance.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
- leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
- leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
- limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
- 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.
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- litmus paper — a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.
- lumpectomies — Plural form of lumpectomy.
- malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
- marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- metal polish — cleaning fluid designed to clean, polish or add shine to metal
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metapolitics — political theory: often used derogatorily
- metropolises — any large, busy city.
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- middle stump — the stump inside of the leg stump and the off stump; the second of the three stumps of a wicket.
- milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
- milliamperes — Plural form of milliampere.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- misspellings — Plural form of misspelling.
- monopolizers — Plural form of monopolizer.
- morphologies — Plural form of morphology.
- multiplexers — Plural form of multiplexer.
- multipresent — able to be present in several places simultaneously
- multipurpose — able to be used for several purposes: a multipurpose lawn spray.
- multiseptate — having several septa or chambers
- multispecies — of, relating to or affecting several species
- myelopoiesis — (biology) The regulated formation of myeloid cells.
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- neoplatonism — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
- olympic-size — of the dimensions or length prescribed for the Olympic Games and other major athletic competitions: an Olympic-size speed-skating oval.
- oversimplify — make too simple
- palimpsestic — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- 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
- pearl primus — Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
- periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
- permissively — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
- perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever