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

  • english elm — a species, U. procera of the genus Ulmus.
  • enlistments — Plural form of enlistment.
  • entailments — Plural form of entailment.
  • enzymolysis — a biochemical decomposition, such as a fermentation, that is catalysed by an enzyme
  • epic simile — an extended simile, as used in the epic poetry of Homer and other writers
  • epithalamus — A part of the dorsal forebrain including the pineal gland and a region in the roof of the third ventricle of the brain.
  • esemplastic — Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.
  • eskimo roll — a manoeuvre that causes a kayak to return to an upright position after capsizing
  • etymologies — Plural form of etymology.
  • etymologise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of etymologize.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • glimmerings — Plural form of glimmering.
  • 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
  • goosepimple — Alt form goose pimple.
  • gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
  • habiliments — Plural form of habiliment.
  • hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
  • hegelianism — the philosophy of Hegel and his followers, characterized by the use of the Hegelian dialectic.
  • helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
  • heliometers — Plural form of heliometer.
  • helminthics — Plural form of helminthic.
  • helminthous — having intestinal worms
  • hemanalysis — an analysis, especially of the chemical constituents, of the blood.
  • hematolysis — hemolysis.
  • hemiacetals — Plural form of hemiacetal.
  • hemistichal — of or relating to a hemistich
  • hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
  • homeoplasia — the formation, as in healing, of new tissue that is similar to the existing tissue.
  • homophylies — Plural form of homophyly.
  • hyperbolism — the use of hyperbole.
  • ileostomies — Plural form of ileostomy.
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