11-letter words containing m, a, c, s, r
- ostracoderm — any of several extinct jawless fishes of the Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian periods, having the body enclosed in an armor of bony plates.
- parascenium — either of two wings flanking and extending forward from the skene of an ancient Greek theater.
- party music — music for or at a party
- petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
- pre-islamic — existing prior to the ascendancy of Islam; pre-Muslim.
- prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- radiocesium — cesium 137.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- re-accustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- reactionism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- reaganomics — the economic policies put forth by the administration of President Ronald Reagan, especially as emphasizing supply-side theory.
- resemblance — the state or fact of resembling; similarity.
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
- romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
- romanticist — an adherent of romanticism in literature or art (contrasted with classicist).
- rumbustical — rumbustious
- sabrmetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
- sacramental — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- salad cream — Salad cream is a pale-yellow creamy sauce that you eat with salad.
- sarcenchyme — the connective tissue of some sponges
- sarcolemmal — of or relating to the sarcolemma
- sarcomatous — any of various malignant tumors composed of neoplastic cells resembling embryonic connective tissue.
- sardonicism — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- saucer dome — a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.
- scalariform — ladderlike.
- scale maker — a person who makes scales for weighing
- scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
- scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
- scaremonger — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
- scattergram — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- schmierkase — cottage cheese.
- schoolmarms — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.
- scleroderma — a disease in which connective tissue anywhere in the body becomes hardened and rigid.
- scoutmaster — the leader or officer in charge of a band of scouts.
- scrap metal — discarded metal
- screamingly — If you say that something is, for example, screamingly funny or screamingly boring, you mean that it is extremely funny or extremely boring.
- screen name — a unique sequence of characters that a person chooses to use for identification purposes when interacting with others online, as in computer games, instant messaging, or forums.
- scuff marks — marks made by scuffing
- search term — Computers. a word or other term used to electronically retrieve data, Web pages, or other information from files, databases, etc.: When you search the shopping website, ads relating to your search terms will appear along with your search results.
- sir michael — Sir Michael (Kemp) 1905–98, British composer.
- smart aleck — an obnoxiously conceited person.
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
- smoking car — smoker (def 2a).