11-letter words containing s, i, m, l
- film studio — a place where films are made
- filmsetting — photocomposition.
- fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
- folk wisdom — wisdom or beliefs associated with or traditional to the common people of a country
- foreglimpse — a revelation or glimpse of the future.
- formalising — Present participle of formalise.
- formalistic — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- formalities — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
- formularies — Plural form of formulary.
- formularise — (British) To express as a formula, to formulate.
- formulising — formulate.
- funambulism — The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope.
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- gallicanism — the movement or body of doctrines, chiefly associated with the Gallican church, advocating the restriction of papal authority in certain matters.
- gaming laws — laws relating to gambling and playing games for money
- gas mileage — the ratio of the number of miles travelled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned; fuel efficiency
- gemmologist — the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstones.
- gemologists — Plural form of gemologist.
- genteelisms — Plural form of genteelism.
- glassmaking — the art of making glass or glassware.
- glimmerings — Plural form of glimmering.
- gliomatosis — excessive growth of neuroglia in the brain or spinal cord
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- goldschmidt — Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- goosepimple — Alt form goose pimple.
- 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.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- gymnastical — Alternative form of gymnastic.
- habiliments — Plural form of habiliment.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
- hegelianism — the philosophy of Hegel and his followers, characterized by the use of the Hegelian dialectic.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- heliometers — Plural form of heliometer.
- helminthics — Plural form of helminthic.
- helminthous — having intestinal worms
- hemanalysis — an analysis, especially of the chemical constituents, of the blood.
- hematolysis — hemolysis.
- hemiacetals — Plural form of hemiacetal.
- hemistichal — of or relating to a hemistich
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- holophytism — the property of being holophytic
- homeoplasia — the formation, as in healing, of new tissue that is similar to the existing tissue.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- homophilous — Homophilic.