11-letter words containing im
- foreglimpse — a revelation or glimpse of the future.
- fortissimos — Plural form of fortissimo.
- gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
- ghost image — ghost (def 8).
- gimbal-ring — Sometimes, gimbal. a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship's compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the object so that it will remain horizontal even when its support is tipped.
- gimcrackery — cheap, showy, useless trifles, ornaments, trinkets, etc.
- gimlet-eyed — having penetrating and piercing eyes, and seeming to notice everything
- glimepiride — A sulfonylurea antidiabetic drug.
- glimmer ice — new ice formed in cracks, holes, or depressions in older ice.
- glimmerings — Plural form of glimmering.
- gold-rimmed — Gold-rimmed glasses have gold-coloured frames.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- goosepimple — Alt form goose pimple.
- gravimeters — Plural form of gravimeter.
- gravimetric — of or relating to measurement by weight.
- grey import — an imported vehicle that does not have an exact model equivalent in the receiving country
- grim reaper — the personification of death as a man or cloaked skeleton holding a scythe.
- grimacingly — With a grimace.
- grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
- guesstimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- guestimates — Plural form of guestimate.
- gumbo-limbo — a tropical American tree, Bursera simaruba, having reddish bark and yielding a sweet, aromatic resin used in varnishes.
- habiliments — Plural form of habiliment.
- harvesttime — the time of year when a crop or crops are harvested, especially autumn.
- hawaii time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
- hemimorphic — (of a crystal) having the two ends of an axis unlike in their planes or modifications; lacking a center of symmetry.
- hexadecimal — Also, hex. of or relating to a numbering system that uses 16 as the radix, employing the numerals 0 through 9 and representing digits greater than 9 with the letters A through F.
- hexidecimal — (spelling) Mis-spelling of "hexadecimal".
- high-impact — High-impact exercise puts a lot of stress on your body.
- hiram maxim — Hiram Percy, 1869–1936, U.S. inventor.
- homodimeric — Of or pertaining to a homodimer.
- hoomalimali — Flattery; soft-soap.
- horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
- horn-rimmed — having the frames or rims made of horn or tortoise shell, or plastic that simulates either of these: horn-rimmed glasses.
- hyperimmune — protected from a disease or the like, as by inoculation.
- hypolimnion — (in certain lakes) the layer of water below the thermocline.
- ice climber — a mountain climber who specializes in ascending frozen surfaces
- illimitable — incapable of being limited; limitless; boundless.
- illimitably — In an illimitable manner.
- image-maker — handler (sense c)
- imagesetter — a printer or typesetting machine for producing professional-quality text with extremely high resolution.
- imaginarily — existing only in the imagination or fancy; not real; fancied: an imaginary illness; the imaginary animals in the stories of Dr. Seuss.
- imagination — the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
- imaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- imbricating — Present participle of imbricate.
- imbrication — an overlapping, as of tiles or shingles.
- imbursement — (obsolete) The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.
- imido group — the bivalent group =NH linked to one or two acid groups.
- imino group — the bivalent group =NH not linked to any acid group.
- imitability — capable or worthy of being imitated: She has many good, imitable qualities.