12-letter words containing e, m, i, s, a, r
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- stabilimeter — stabilograph.
- star jasmine — a shrubby, evergreen vine, Trachelospermum jasminoides, of the dogbane family, native to China, having small clusters of fragrant, white flowers, often cultivated as an ornamental.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam fitter — a person who installs and repairs steampipes and their accessories.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- steering arm — the part of a vehicle's chassis that directs the input from the steering box
- steinamanger — German name of Szombathely.
- stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
- 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.
- struma-river — a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.
- subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
- subminiature — subminiature camera.
- summarizable — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- superluminal — appearing to travel faster than the speed of light.
- supermassive — (of a black hole or star) having a mass in the range of millions or billions of times that of the sun
- 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).
- swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
- taskmistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
- tautomerizes — to undergo tautomerism.
- thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
- theorematist — a person who creates or discovers a theorem
- thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
- thermostatic — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- third stream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
- time sharing — to use or occupy by time-sharing.
- time-release — timed-release.
- time-sharing — time-sharing (def 2).
- times square — a wide intersection extending from 43rd to 47th Streets in central Manhattan, New York City, where Broadway and Seventh Avenue intersect.
- tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- transaminase — any of a class of enzymes, occurring in most plant and animal tissue, that cause transamination.
- transfermium — having an atomic number greater than 100, the atomic number of fermium.
- transmigrate — to move or pass from one place to another.
- transmissive — the act or process of transmitting.
- transumptive — of or relating to transumption
- transvestism — the practice, especially of men, of wearing clothing usually associated with the opposite sex for psychological gratification.
- tryparsamide — a white, crystalline powder, C 8 H 10 O 4 N 2 AsNa·½H 2 , used chiefly in treating African sleeping sickness.
- turkmenistan — a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.
- ultrarealism — extreme or intense realism
- universalism — universal character; universality.
- unseminaried — not having a seminary education
- vestimentary — of or relating to clothes or dress
- villahermosa — a state in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. 9783 sq. mi. (25,338 sq. km). Capital: Villahermosa.
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.