11-letter words containing i, r, o, n, s, m
- showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
- simmer down — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
- simon peter — Peter (def 1).
- single room — hotel room for one person
- smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
- smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
- snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- somniferous — bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
- sound mixer — sb who records film sound
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- spermatoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermotoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spinsterdom — the state of being a spinster
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- storm drain — rainwater drainage hole or gutter
- stramineous — of or resembling straw.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- surmounting — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
- synchromism — a movement of the early 20th century led by American artists and manifested in their experimentation with nonfigurative or entirely abstract paintings containing shapes and volumes of pure color. Compare Orphism (def 2).
- synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- syringotomy — surgical removal of a fistula
- tensiometer — an instrument for measuring longitudinal stress in wires, structural beams, etc.
- tensiometry — the study of the measurement of tension
- thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
- tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
- tropomyosin — a protein in muscle tissue that works with troponin to control the process by which actin and myosin interact to produce muscle contraction
- tyrosinemia — an inherited disorder of tyrosine metabolism that can lead to liver and kidney disease and mental retardation unless controlled by a special diet.
- unpromising — unlikely to be favorable or successful, as the weather, a situation, or a career.
- urodynamics — the study and measurement of the flow of urine in the urinary tract
- voluntarism — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
- workmanship — the art or skill of a workman or workwoman.