12-letter words containing h, i, m, s, e
- schoenheimer — Rudolf [roo-dolf;; German roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɒlf;; German ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1898–1941, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany.
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semidetached — partly detached.
- semifinished — partially or almost finished.
- shamateurism — a sports term referring to a state in which an athlete is classified as an amateur but acts like a professional, usually by raising money
- 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
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- shrimp sauce — a sauce made from shrimps
- siderochrome — any of various chemical compounds functioning in the transport of iron in bacteria.
- simian shelf — a shelflike thickening along the inside of the mandible, characteristic of the anthropoid apes.
- single rhyme — a rhyme of monosyllables, as in heart, part.
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
- smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
- somaesthesia — sensory perception of bodily feelings like touch, pain, position of the limbs, etc
- spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
- spermophytic — able to produce seed
- spin machine — an organization or group of people acting together to present news or information in a way that creates a particular desired impression
- sprechstimme — sprechgesang.
- stretch limo — A stretch limo is a very long and luxurious car in which a rich, famous, or important person is driven somewhere.
- stretch mill — a mill for rolling and stretching seamless tubes, the rolls of each successive stand operating more quickly than those of the preceding.
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
- sumphishness — stupidity, sulkiness
- swedish mile — a unit of length used in Sweden, equal to 10 kilometres
- synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
- syntheticism — a synthetic nature or approach
- thalassaemia — a hereditary disease, common in many parts of the world, resulting from defects in the synthesis of the red blood pigment haemoglobin
- thalassaemic — a person who has the blood disorder thalassaemia
- thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
- the mesozoic — the Mesozoic era
- the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
- the munchies — a craving for food, esp when induced by alcohol or drugs
- the olympics — the Olympic Games
- the psalmist — King David, to whom all or certain of the Psalms are variously attributed
- the solimões — the Brazilian name for the Amazon from the Peruvian border to the Rio Negro
- themistocles — 527?–460? b.c, Athenian statesman.
- theocentrism — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
- theorematist — a person who creates or discovers a theorem
- thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
- thermosiphon — an arrangement of siphon tubes that enables water in a heating apparatus to circulate by means of convection.
- 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.