12-letter words containing em
- enthronement — The act of enthroning or the state of being enthroned.
- entitlements — Plural form of entitlement.
- entrainement — the occurrence of one species of bacteria growing close to another acquiring characteristics of the other
- entrancement — The act of entrancing or the state of being entranced.
- envisagement — The act of envisaging.
- ephemerality — (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
- ephemeridian — relating to ephemera
- epidemically — In the manner of an epidemic.
- epidemiology — The branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.
- epirrhematic — relating to epirrhema
- epistemology — The theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion.
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- estrangement — The fact of no longer being on friendly terms or part of a social group.
- exemplifying — Present participle of exemplify.
- extemporally — In an extemporal manner.
- extemporised — Simple past tense and past participle of extemporise.
- extemporized — Simple past tense and past participle of extemporize.
- extemporizer — One who extemporizes.
- extemporizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extemporize.
- extremophile — A microorganism, especially an archaean, that lives in conditions of extreme temperature, acidity, alkalinity, or chemical concentration.
- feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- female rhyme — feminine rhyme.
- feminineness — The state or condition of being feminine.
- femininities — Plural form of femininity.
- feminisation — Alternative spelling of feminization.
- feminization — The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.
- femme fatale — an irresistibly attractive woman, especially one who leads men into difficult, dangerous, or disastrous situations; siren.
- final demand — the last in a series of requests for payment of money owed, which usually contains a threat of legal action if the demand is ignored
- first empire — the empire (1804–14) established in France by Napoleon Bonaparte.
- fixed system — a system of solmization which assigns the names ut (or do), re, mi, fa, sol, la, si (or ti) to the degrees of the major scale of C
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
- footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
- forebodement — The act of foreboding.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- fuel element — a can containing nuclear fuel for use in a fission reactor
- 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.
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- gemeinschaft — an association of individuals having sentiments, tastes, and attitudes in common; fellowship.
- gemel bottle — a bottle consisting of two flasks set side by side with the necks curving in opposite directions.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- 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.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- haematemesis — Alternative spelling of hematemesis.
- haematoblast — any of the undifferentiated cells in the bone marrow that develop into blood cells
- haematolyses — Plural form of haematolysis.
- haematolysis — Haemolysis.
- haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
- haematoxylon — any thorny leguminous tree of the genus Haematoxylon, esp the logwood, of tropical America and SW Africa. The heartwood yields the dye haematoxylin