12-letter words containing a, c, m, e
- recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- reduced mass — a quantity obtained when one particle is moving about another, larger particle that is also moving, equivalent to the mass of the smaller particle, were the larger particle not moving, and equal to the quotient of the product of the two masses divided by their sum.
- reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
- refugee camp — a camp for sheltering and protecting people who have fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution
- rejectamenta — things that have been thrown away as worthless
- remembrancer — a person who reminds another of something.
- remonstrance — an act or instance of remonstrating.
- return match — sport: second game between same teams
- reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
- rhamphotheca — the horny covering of a bird's bill.
- ring machine — a Linotype used primarily for making corrections.
- rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- roman a clef — a novel that represents historical events and characters under the guise of fiction.
- roman candle — a firework consisting of a tube that sends out a shower of sparks and a succession of balls of fire.
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
- rubber match — rubber2 (def 4)
- sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sacramentals — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacramentary — a sacramentarian
- safety match — a match designed to ignite only when rubbed on a specially prepared surface.
- salicylamide — a compound of ammonia and gualtheria oil
- sample space — the collection of all possible results of an experiment, represented as points.
- san clemente — a town in S California.
- sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
- scampishness — the quality of being scampish
- scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scene master — (on a switchboard) a master switch that controls several lighting circuits.
- scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
- sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- sea cucumber — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having a long, leathery body with tentacles around the anterior end.
- secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
- sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
- seismic wave — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- seismonastic — of or relating to seismonasty
- self-command — self-control.
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
- semi-organic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized