12-letter words containing a, s, y, m
- sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
- sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- self-mastery — self-control.
- semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semiannually — occurring, done, or published every half year or twice a year; semiyearly.
- semiautonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
- semimystical — somewhat mystical; having a mystical quality to a partial degree
- serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
- seymour cray — (person) The founder of Cray Research and designer of several of their supercomputers. Cray has been a charismatic yet somewhat reclusive figure. He began Cray Research in Minnesota in 1972. In 1988, Cray moved his Cray-3 project to Colorado Springs. The next year, Cray Research spun it off to create Cray Computer. In 1989, Cray left Cray Research and started Cray Computer Corporation in Colorado Springs. His quest to build a faster computer using new-generation materials failed in 1995, and his bankruptcy cost half a billion dollars and more than 400 jobs. The company was unable to raise $20 million needed to finish the Cray-4 and filed for bankruptcy in March 1995. In the summer of 1996, Cray started a Colorado Springs-based company called SRC Computers, Inc. "We think we'll build computers, but who knows what kind or how," Cray said at the time. "We'll talk it over and see if we can come up with a plan." On 1996-09-22, aged 70, Cray broke his neck in a car accident. Surgery for massive head injuries and swelling of the brain leaving him in a critical and unstable condition.
- shame on you — expressing disapproval
- shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- simplicially — from a simplicial point of view
- simultaneity — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- smarty-pants — smarty.
- smoky quartz — a smoky-yellow to dark brown or black variety of quartz, used as a gem.
- solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
- spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
- sphygmograph — an instrument for recording the rapidity, strength, and uniformity of the arterial pulse.
- splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- stapedectomy — a microsurgical procedure to relieve deafness by replacing the stapes of the ear with a prosthetic device.
- stately home — a country mansion, usually of architectural interest and often open to the public.
- stay-at-home — not inclined to travel or seek diversions or pastimes outside one's residence, area, or country.
- stichomythia — dramatic dialogue, as in a Greek play, characterized by brief exchanges between two characters, each of whom usually speaks in one line of verse during a scene of intense emotion or strong argumentation.
- stop payment — an order by the drawer of a check to his or her bank not to pay a specified check.
- streamer fly — an artificial fly having a wing or wings extending beyond the crook of the fishhook.
- subliminally — existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual: a subliminal stimulus; subliminal advertising.
- submaxillary — of or relating to the lower jaw or lower jawbone.
- sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- symbolically — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
- symbololatry — the worship of symbols
- symmetallism — the use of an alloy of two or more metals in fixed relative value as the standard of value and currency
- sympathizing — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- symptomatize — symptomize.
- synaptosomal — pertaining to a synaptosome
- syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.
- syngman rhee — Syngman [sing-muh n] /ˈsɪŋ mən/ (Show IPA), 1875–1965, president of South Korea 1948–60.
- syntagmatite — a dark crystalline form of hornblende
- syrtis major — an area in the northern hemisphere and near the equator of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- systematical — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- systematized — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- systemically — of or relating to a system.
- testamentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a testament or will.
- thomas hardy — Godfrey Harold, 1877–1947, English mathematician.
- thomas talys — Thomas, Tallis, Thomas.