12-letter words that end in me
- hopper frame — a window frame having one or more upper sashes hinged at the bottoms and opening inward.
- human genome — genetic code of human beings
- in good time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- in the frame — If someone is in the frame for something such as a job or position, they are being considered for it.
- inflammasome — (biochemistry) A multi-protein complex that is responsible for inflammatory rheumatic diseases via activation of caspases.
- journey time — the time taken to make a journey
- 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
- kingdom come — the next world; the hereafter; heaven.
- know by name — to have heard of without having met
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- leisure time — free time
- 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.
- lose no time — act without delay
- lower-income — earning less than average
- lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
- machine time — time spent using mechanical equipment
- mantle plume — plume (def 10).
- married name — woman's surname after marriage
- milking time — the time at which a cow is milked
- molar volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a gas, liquid, or solid.
- multi-volume — consisting of or encompassing several volumes: a multivolume encyclopedia.
- nick of time — moment before sth is too late
- nom de plume — pen name.
- numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
- opening time — You can refer to the time that a shop, bank, library, or bar opens for business as its opening time.
- organigramme — (British, management) An organisation chart.
- other income — Other income is income that does not come from a company's main business, such as interest.
- oxford frame — a frame for a picture, mirror, etc., consisting of four straight pieces whose ends project beyond the corners.
- pacific time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
- parlour game — A parlour game is a game that is played indoors by families or at parties, for example a guessing game.
- payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
- perfect game — a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.
- polyribosome — polysome.
- ponzi scheme — a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.
- port hueneme — a city in S California.
- portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
- pouilly-fume — a dry, white wine from the Loire Valley of France.
- pseudoscheme — A translator from Scheme to Common Lisp by Jonathan Rees <[email protected]>. Version 2.8. It conforms to all of R3RS except call/cc and requires Common Lisp. Runs on Lucid, Symbolics CL, VAX Lisp, Explorer CL. Mailing list: [email protected]
- put to shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
- quality time — time devoted exclusively to nurturing a cherished person or activity.
- quiesce time — (jargon) The length of time taken to quiesce a system (to render it inactive), or the length of time between periods of inactivity.
- ram sth home — If something rams home a message or a point, it makes it clear in a way that is very forceful and that people are likely to listen to.
- rhyme scheme — the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal, ababbcc.
- rhyming game — a game played using rhyme
- running time — Movies. the length or duration, usually expressed in minutes, of a feature film: The running time of the average film is 90–100 minutes.
- saint jerome — Saint (Eusebius Hieronymus) a.d. c340–420, Christian ascetic and Biblical scholar: chief preparer of the Vulgate version of the Bible.
- sales volume — quantity of goods sold
- service game — a game in which a particular tennis player is the one who serves