12-letter words containing s, t, i, g, m
- homesteading — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- hominy grits — grits (def 1).
- homozygosity — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- illegitimise — illegitimatize.
- immigrations — Plural form of immigration.
- immunologist — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- inseminating — Present participle of inseminate.
- intermeshing — That mesh between one another.
- intermingles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermingle.
- interregnums — Plural form of interregnum.
- intersegment — Between segments.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- legitimising — Present participle of legitimise.
- legitimistic — inclined towards, or relating to, the opinions of legitimists
- limacologist — a person who specialises in the study of slugs
- line segment — segment (def 2b).
- 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
- lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- magistracies — Plural form of magistracy.
- magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
- magnetotaxis — movement or orientation of an organism in response to a magnetic field.
- magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
- magnus hitch — a knot similar to a clove hitch but taking one more turn around the object to which the line is being bent; rolling hitch.
- mailing list — a list of addresses to which mail, especially advertisements, can be sent.
- malacologist — A person who studies molluscs, who specializes in malacology.
- masking tape — an easily removed adhesive tape used temporarily for defining margins, protecting surfaces, etc., as when painting, and sometimes also for binding, sealing, or mending.
- mass meeting — a large or general assembly to discuss or hear discussed some matter of common interest or concern: a mass meeting to protest the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
- mass wasting — downhill movement of soil and rock fragments induced by gravity.
- masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
- mastersinger — Meistersinger (def 1).
- mastigonemes — Plural form of mastigoneme.
- mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
- meeting post — a timber with a chamfer at the outer edge of a lock gate that fits against the meeting post of another lock gate.
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
- mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
- message unit — a measure of the duration of and distance covered by local telephone calls, used by telephone companies as a basis for assessing service charges.
- metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.