12-letter words containing me
- james edward — Stuart, James Francis Edward.
- james harper — James, 1795–1869, and his brothers John, 1797–1875, (Joseph) Wesley, 1801–70, and Fletcher, 1806–77, U.S. printers and publishers.
- james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- james k polk — James Knox, 1795–1849, the 11th president of the U.S. 1845–49.
- jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime
- journey time — the time taken to make a journey
- judgment day — the day of the Last Judgment; doomsday.
- judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- just in time — Business. noting or pertaining to a method of inventory control that keeps inventories low by scheduling needed goods and equipment to arrive a short time before a production run begins. Abbreviation: JIT.
- just-in-time — dynamic translation
- kamehameha i — ("the Great") 1737?–1819, king of the Hawaiian Islands 1810–19.
- katharometer — (science) A device used for analyzing gas mixtures by measuring their thermal conductivity.
- katzenjammer — the discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover.
- kenny method — a method of treating poliomyelitis, in which hot, moist packs are applied to affected muscles to relieve spasms and pain, and a regimen of exercises is prescribed to prevent deformities and to strengthen the muscles.
- key lime pie — a custardlike pie made with lime juice, condensed milk, eggs, and flavorings and served in a pastry shell.
- kingdom come — the next world; the hereafter; heaven.
- know by name — to have heard of without having met
- lamella roof — a vaulted roof composed of lamellae.
- lamellaphone — Alt form lamellophone.
- lamellophone — (musical instruments) Any of several musical instruments in which the sound is produced by plucking a series of thin lamellaa attached to a sounding board.
- lamentations — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- lammergeiers — Plural form of lammergeier.
- lamp trimmer — a sailor responsible for keeping the oil lamps of a ship burning brightly, especially the deck and navigation lamps.
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- late bloomer — a person whose talents or capabilities are slow to develop: A late bloomer, she wrote her first novel when she was almost 50.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
- 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.
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- leisure time — free time
- lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
- lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
- light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
- lime cordial — a drink made from sweetened lime juice and plain or carbonated water
- line segment — segment (def 2b).
- line trimmer — a gardening device used to trim the edges of lawns by means of a rapidly rotating motor-driven flexible wire or cord.
- linked rhyme — a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.
- linseed meal — ground linseed cake.
- little women — a novel (1868) by Louisa May Alcott.
- lonesomeness — depressed or sad because of the lack of friends, companionship, etc.; lonely: to feel lonesome.
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- long-stemmed — having a long stem or stems: long-stemmed roses.
- longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
- longsomeness — tiresome lengthiness
- lose no time — act without delay
- lower merion — a town in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- lower-income — earning less than average
- lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
- 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.