12-letter words containing m, a, i, l
- spasmophilic — of or noting spasmophilia.
- special team — Football. a group of players fielded for kicking plays, as punts, kickoffs, and field-goal attempts.
- special term — the sitting of a court for the trial of a special case.
- spiritualism — the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person (a medium) particularly susceptible to their influence.
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- stabilimeter — stabilograph.
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- statute mile — mile (def 1).
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- 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.
- storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
- 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.
- subabdominal — below or beneath the abdomen
- subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
- 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.
- submit-table — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- suleiman (i) — 1494?-1566; sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1520-66)
- 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
- summarizable — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- superluminal — appearing to travel faster than the speed of light.
- supermaxilla — the upper jaw.
- superrealism — photorealism.
- supraliminal — being above the threshold of perception of a stimulus.
- 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).
- symbolically — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
- symmetallism — the use of an alloy of two or more metals in fixed relative value as the standard of value and currency
- syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.
- systematical — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- systemically — of or relating to a system.
- telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
- temperalitie — temper
- temptability — the state of being liable to temptation
- temptational — the act of tempting; enticement or allurement.
- 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
- the almighty — God
- the mainland — a particular landmass as viewed from a nearby island with which it has close links, such as Great Britain as viewed from Northern Ireland or continental Australia as viewed from Tasmania
- 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 military — the armed services (esp the army)
- the psalmist — King David, to whom all or certain of the Psalms are variously attributed
- thematically — of or relating to a theme.
- thermal unit — a unit of heat energy or of the equivalent of heat energy in work.
- thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
- thermohaline — relating to both the temperature and salinity of ocean water
- thermolabile — subject to destruction or loss of characteristic properties by the action of moderate heat, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermostable).