12-letter words containing a, r, m, l, e, s
- 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
- skelmersdale — a town in NW England, in Lancashire: designated a new town in 1962. Pop: 39 279 (2001)
- slalom racer — someone who takes part in a slalom
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- sledgehammer — a large heavy hammer wielded with both hands.
- sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
- slumber wear — nightclothes
- slumbershade — sleep shade.
- small barbel — any small cyprinid fish of the genus Barbus
- 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
- small letter — a lower-case letter
- small screen — the medium of television.
- small stores — personal items, such as clothing, sold aboard ship or at a naval base
- small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
- solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
- somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
- special term — the sitting of a court for the trial of a special case.
- spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- stabilimeter — stabilograph.
- stamp dealer — someone who buys and sells postage stamps (to collectors)
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-roller — a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
- stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
- 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.
- storm cellar — a cellar or underground chamber for refuge during violent storms; cyclone cellar.
- storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
- streamer fly — an artificial fly having a wing or wings extending beyond the crook of the fishhook.
- 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
- submolecular — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- subumbrellar — of or pertaining to the subumbrella, located beneath the umbrella (of a jellyfish)
- summarizable — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- sun umbrella — an umbrella by a chair or table, used for protecting you from the sun
- superhumeral — an ecclesiastical vestment worn over the shoulders
- superluminal — appearing to travel faster than the speed of light.
- supermaxilla — the upper jaw.
- supernaculum — a highly regarded liquor, to be drunk to the very last drop
- superrealism — photorealism.
- surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
- thermostable — capable of being subjected to a moderate degree of heat without loss of characteristic properties, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermolabile).