11-letter words containing a, p, m
- speed metal — a style of heavy-metal music typically played at extremely fast tempos.
- sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
- spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
- spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermatoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermatozoa — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- spermicidal — that kills sperm
- sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
- sphygmogram — a tracing or diagram produced by a sphygmograph.
- spiraliform — having or resembling spiral lines
- spirit lamp — a lamp that burns methylated or other spirits instead of oil
- spiroplasma — any of numerous bacteria of the genus Spiroplasma that have no cell walls or flagella and are parasitic in plants and arthropods.
- spodomantic — relating to spodomancy
- spokeswoman — a woman who speaks for another person or for a group.
- sportswoman — a woman who engages in sports.
- spot market — a market in which commodities, as grain, gold, or crude oil, are dealt in for cash and immediate delivery (distinguished from futures market).
- spring lamb — a lamb born in the late winter or early spring and sold for slaughter before July 1.
- stamp album — a book used by collectors of postage stamps to display and store their stamps
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- static dump — a transfer of the contents of computer memory made at a time when the process is guaranteed to be inactive, as at the end of a routine.
- steam point — the temperature at which water vapor condenses at a pressure of one atmosphere, represented by 100°C and 212°F.
- stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
- strippagram — a greetings message delivered by a stripper who does a striptease on delivery
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- sugar maple — any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.
- summer camp — a camp, especially one for children during the summer, providing facilities for sleeping and eating, and usually for handicrafts, sports, etc.
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- superorgasm — an extreme orgasm
- suppedaneum — a shelf affixed to a cross for supporting the feet of the crucified.
- supremacist — a person who believes in or advocates the supremacy of a particular group, especially a racial group: a white supremacist.
- suprematism — a nonrepresentational style of art developed in Russia in the early 20th century, characterized by severely simple geometric shapes or forms and an extremely limited palette.
- swamp barge — A swamp barge is a vessel used for offshore drilling in very shallow water, which is towed out and then rests on the bottom.
- swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
- swamp buggy — an amphibious vehicle for use in and around swamps, typically having an automobile engine, four-wheel drive, large wheels with deep treads, and a raised chassis.
- swamp fever — leptospirosis.
- swamp maple — red maple.
- swarm spore — zoospore
- sympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- sympathique — pleasing or congenial
- sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
- sympetalous — gamopetalous.
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- symptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- synaptosome — a saclike structure at an isolated nerve ending
- t & c’s — terms and conditions