12-letter words containing t, e, l, m, c
- electrometer — An instrument for measuring electrical potential without drawing any current from the circuit.
- electromotor — an electric motor
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- emblematical — See emblematic.
- empathically — In an empathic manner.
- emphatically — In a forceful way.
- emplacements — Plural form of emplacement.
- encirclement — The act of encircling or the state of being encircled.
- etepimeletic — (of behaviour in young animals) care-seeking
- ethylmercury — (chemistry) The organometallic cation CH3CH2Hg+; it is a toxicant that does not seem to accumulate in the environment.
- etymological — (not comparable) Of or relating to etymology.
- etymologicum — an etymological dictionary
- exclamations — Plural form of exclamation.
- exophthalmic — Having or characterized by protruding eyes.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- flame stitch — an ornamental stitch, used on bedspreads, upholstery fabrics, and the like, producing rows of ogees in various colors.
- fluorimetric — Alternative form of fluorometric.
- fluorometric — Of, pertaining to, or measured using fluorometry.
- galactometer — a lactometer.
- galactosemia — an inherited disorder characterized by the inability to metabolize galactose and requiring a galactose-free diet to avoid consequent mental retardation and eye, spleen, and liver abnormalities.
- gangliectomy — (medicine) Excision of a ganglion; surgical removal of a mass of tissue.
- glossematics — a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- hermetically — so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
- homolecithal — having a fairly uniform distribution of yolk, as certain eggs or ova having relatively little yolk.
- horometrical — Relating to horometry.
- illegitimacy — the state or quality of being illegitimate.
- immaculately — free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean: immaculate linen.
- immethodical — not methodical; without method or system.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- implicitness — The state or quality of being implicit.
- inclinometer — Aeronautics. an instrument for measuring the angle an aircraft makes with the horizontal.
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incompatible — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incompletely — not complete; lacking some part.
- incompletion — the state of being incomplete; incompleteness.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- intermercial — interstitial
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
- laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
- latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
- law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
- league match — a match played between teams in a league (as opposed to an international game)
- lecture room — conference hall
- legitimistic — inclined towards, or relating to, the opinions of legitimists
- leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
- light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
- little minch — a sea channel between Isle of Skye and the central Outer Hebrides Islands, Scotland, connecting the Minch, or North Minch (N), with the Sea of the Hebrides. 14 to 20 miles (23 to 32 km) wide.