12-letter words containing ise
- fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
- give rise to — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- grammaticise — to make grammatical
- griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
- hospitalised — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hypostasised — to assume the reality of (an idea, proposition, etc.); hypostatize.
- hypostatised — to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
- hypothesised — to form a hypothesis.
- hypothesises — to form a hypothesis.
- illegitimise — illegitimatize.
- illiberalise — to render illiberal
- immiseration — to make miserable.
- immiserising — immiserate.
- immiserizing — immiserate.
- immortalised — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- imperialised — Simple past tense and past participle of imperialise.
- incentivised — Simple past tense and past participle of incentivise.
- incentivises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incentivise.
- internalised — Simple past tense and past participle of internalise.
- japonaiserie — stylistic characteristics, as in art, decor, or film, influenced by or reflective of Japanese culture and tradition.
- lithotritise — to perform a lithotrity
- loco disease — locoism.
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- lyme disease — an acute inflammatory disease caused by a tick-borne spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi , characterized by recurrent episodes of decreasing severity in which joint swelling, fever, and rash occur, sometimes with cardiac or nervous system complications.
- 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 a noise — to talk a great deal or complain
- marginalised — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- marginalises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marginalise.
- marie louise — 1791–1847, 2nd wife of Napoleon I: empress of France; duchess of Parma 1816–31 (daughter of Francis II of Austria; mother of Napoleon II).
- marseillaise — the French national anthem, written in 1792 by Rouget de Lisle.
- materialised — Simple past tense and past participle of materialise.
- materialises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of materialise.
- mauvaise foi — (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
- memorialised — Simple past tense and past participle of memorialise.
- merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- metastasised — Pathology. (of malignant cells or disease-producing organisms) to spread to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces.
- metropolises — any large, busy city.
- milliseconds — Plural form of millisecond.
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- misadvisedly — ill-advisedly
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- misemphasize — to emphasize incorrectly
- miserabilism — Gloomy pessimism or negativity.
- miserabilist — One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
- misericordia — (legal, obsolete) An amercement.
- misery index — an unofficial indication of a nation's economic health, derived by adding the percentage rate of inflation to the percentage of unemployed workers: With inflation running at 15 percent and unemployment at 8 percent, the misery index is 23 percent.
- misestimated — Simple past tense and past participle of misestimate.