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12-letter words containing a, i, r, m, l, e

  • rear admiral — U.S. Navy, Coast Guard. a commissioned officer next in rank below a vice-admiral.
  • reassimilate — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
  • reimbursable — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
  • reinstalment — a further or new instalment
  • remilitarize — to equip with armed forces, military supplies, or the like.
  • remineralize — to add or restore minerals to
  • reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
  • rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
  • salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • semi-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
  • semi-trailer — Also called semi. a detachable trailer for hauling freight, with wheels at the rear end, the forward end being supported by the rear of a truck tractor when attached. Compare full trailer.
  • semiarboreal — (of animals) spending half or some of their life in trees
  • semicircular — Also called semicircumference [sem-ee-ser-kuhm-fer-uh ns, -fruh ns, sem-ahy-] /ˌsɛm i sərˈkʌm fər əns, -frəns, ˌsɛm aɪ-/ (Show IPA). half of a circle; the arc from one end of a diameter to the other.
  • semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
  • semiliterate — a person who is semiliterate.
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • serial comma — a comma used after the next-to-last item in a series of three or more items when the next-to-last and last items are separated by a conjunction. In the series A, B, C, or D, the comma after C is the series comma.
  • share-milker — (in New Zealand) a person who lives on a dairy farm milking the owner's herd for an agreed share of the profits and, usually, building his own herd simultaneously
  • silas marner — a novel (1861) by George Eliot.
  • silent alarm — an alarm that alerts security personnel or the police without the knowledge of the intruder or criminal whose presence triggers it: The silent alarm set off a flashing light at the police station.
  • silver bream — a type of ray-finned fish from the family Cyprinidae
  • silver maple — a maple, Acer saccharinum, having leaves that are light green above and silvery white beneath.
  • silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
  • similarities — the state of being similar; likeness; resemblance.
  • simple sugar — monosaccharide.
  • single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
  • small circle — a circle on a sphere, the plane of which does not pass through the center of the sphere. Compare great circle (def 1).
  • small ermine — an unrelated micro, Yponomeuta padella
  • special term — the sitting of a court for the trial of a special case.
  • spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
  • stabilimeter — stabilograph.
  • steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
  • steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
  • stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
  • streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
  • stromatolite — a laminated calcareous fossil structure built by marine algae and having a rounded or columnar form.
  • subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
  • summarizable — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
  • superluminal — appearing to travel faster than the speed of light.
  • supermaxilla — the upper jaw.
  • superrealism — photorealism.
  • surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
  • swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • temperalitie — temper
  • the military — the armed services (esp the army)
  • thermal unit — a unit of heat energy or of the equivalent of heat energy in work.
  • thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
  • thermohaline — relating to both the temperature and salinity of ocean water
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