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12-letter words containing em

  • isostemonous — having stamens equal in number to the sepals or petals.
  • jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury
  • kremlinology — the study of the government of the former Soviet Union, especially the study of those factors governing its foreign affairs.
  • legal memory — a period of time, now usually established by statute, during which custom, conduct, or a state of affairs must have existed or continued in order for it to have taken on the force of law or to establish a legal right or title not otherwise provable.
  • legal system — judicial structures and processes: law
  • lemminkainen — (in the Kalevala) a young, jovial hero who has many adventures in which he is sometimes helped by his mother.
  • lemnian seal — the earth of the Greek island of Lemnos, which is famous for its medicinal properties
  • lemon butter — a spread made of butter flavored with lemon
  • lemon cheese — a soft paste made from lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter, used as a spread or filling
  • lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
  • lemon yellow — a clear, yellowish-green color.
  • long-stemmed — having a long stem or stems: long-stemmed roses.
  • longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
  • luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
  • lymph system — Anatomy, Zoology. the system by which lymph is returned from the cells to the blood and by which white blood cells are produced in response to inflammation or presence of antigens; in mammals, the system includes the lymph glands, vessels and sinuses through which lymph is carried, and lymphoid tissues, as bone marrow and the thymus.
  • mademoiselle — (often initial capital letter) a French title of respect equivalent to “Miss”, used in speaking to or of a girl or unmarried woman: Mademoiselle Lafitte. Abbreviation: Mlle.
  • make demands — If someone or something makes demands on you, they require you to do things which need a lot of time, energy, or money.
  • managemental — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
  • martempering — a quenching process used to harden austenitic steel.
  • mastigonemes — Plural form of mastigoneme.
  • mathematical — of, relating to, or of the nature of mathematics: mathematical truth.
  • mathematized — Simple past tense and past participle of mathematize.
  • may-december — of or designating a marriage or romantic relationship between a young person and a person who is considerably older
  • measurements — The action of measuring something.
  • memento mori — (italics) Latin. remember that you must die.
  • memorability — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
  • memorial day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
  • memorialised — Simple past tense and past participle of memorialise.
  • memorialists — Plural form of memorialist.
  • memorialized — (US) Simple past tense and past participle of memorialize.
  • memorializer — One who petitions by a memorial.
  • memorializes — (US) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of memorialize.
  • memorisation — Alternative spelling of memorization.
  • memorization — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
  • memory farts — (jargon, humour)   The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
  • memory smash — (jargon)   A Xerox PARC term for writing to the location addressed by a dangling pointer.
  • memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
  • memory trace — engram.
  • memory verse — a verse or passage from the Bible to be memorized, especially by members of a Sunday school.
  • memphremagog — Lake, a lake on the boundary between the U.S. and Canada, between N Vermont and S Quebec. 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • meristematic — consisting of or having the properties of meristem.
  • merit system — a system or policy whereby people are promoted or rewarded on the basis of ability and achievement rather than because of seniority, quotas, patronage, or the like.
  • meta element — (web)   An HTML element, with tag name of "META", expressing metadata about a given HTML document. HTML standards do not require that documents have META elements but if META elements occur, they must be inside the document's HEAD element. The META element can be used to identify properties of a document (e.g., author, expiration date, a list of key words, etc.) and assign values to those properties, typically by specifying a NAME attribute (to name the property) and a CONTENT attribute (to assign a value for that property). The HTML 4 specification doesn't standardise particular NAME properties or CONTENT values; but it is conventional to use a "Description" property to convey a short summary of the document, and a "Keywords" property to provide a list of keywords relevant to the document, as in: META elements with HTTP-EQUIV and CONTENT attributes can simulate the effect of HTTP header lines, as in: Other properties may be application-specific. For example, the Robots Exclusion. standard uses the "robots" property for asserting that the given document should not be indexed by robots, nor should links in it be followed: (2001-02-07)
  • metempirical — beyond or outside the field of experience.
  • microelement — Trace element.
  • microsystems — Plural form of microsystem.
  • misdemeanant — a person who is guilty of misbehavior.
  • misdemeaning — to misbehave (oneself).
  • misdemeanors — Plural form of misdemeanor.
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