11-letter words containing m, a, n, s
- streamlined — streamlined.
- streamliner — something that is streamlined, especially a locomotive or passenger train.
- street name — a broker who holds securities registered in his or her name instead of in the name of the customer, especially for convenience in executing transfers and in pledging for borrowing in margin accounts.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- strong meat — anything arousing fear, anger, repulsion, etc, except among a tolerant or receptive minority
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- stunt woman — a woman who substitutes for an actor in scenes requiring hazardous or acrobatic feats.
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- sub-manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- subbasement — a basement or one of a series of basements below the main basement of a building.
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subimaginal — of or relating to subimago
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- submarginal — Biology. near the margin.
- submarining — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- subtacksman — a renter who holds the property they rent by subletting it
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- suburbanism — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
- succedaneum — a substitute.
- sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- suppedaneum — a shelf affixed to a cross for supporting the feet of the crucified.
- sustainment — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
- swan maiden — any of a class of folkloric maidens, in many Indo-European and Asian tales, capable of being transformed into swans, as by magic or sorcery.
- swordswoman — a female who uses or is skilled in the use of a sword.
- synaptosome — a saclike structure at an isolated nerve ending
- syndicalism — a form or development of trade unionism, originating in France, that aims at the possession of the means of production and distribution, and ultimately at the control of society, by federated bodies of industrial workers, and that seeks to realize its purposes through general strikes, terrorism, sabotage, etc.
- syndyasmian — pertaining to sexual pairing without exclusive co-habitation
- synonymatic — relating to, or made up of, synonyms
- synonymical — a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms (or opposites), such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
- syntagmatic — pertaining to a relationship among linguistic elements that occur sequentially in the chain of speech or writing, as the relationship between the sun and is shining or the and sun in the sentence The sun is shining.
- szymanowski — Karol [kah-rawl] /ˈkɑ rɔl/ (Show IPA), 1882?–1937, Polish composer.
- taphonomist — a specialist in taphonomy
- tarim basin — a region in W China between the Tien Shan and Kunlun mountain ranges. About 350,000 sq. mi. (906,000 sq. km).
- tennis camp — a camp that people go to in order to play and be taught tennis
- testamentar — testamentary
- testimonial — a written declaration certifying to a person's character, conduct, or qualifications, or to the value, excellence, etc., of a thing; a letter or written statement of recommendation.
- thermonasty — a nastic movement in response to a temperature change, as occurs in the opening of certain flowers
- time signal — a signal sent electrically or by radio to indicate a precise moment of time as a means of checking or regulating timepieces.
- time-saving — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- tonal music — music that uses the diatonic system
- tonic spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
- tradeswoman — a woman engaged in trade.
- train smash — a disaster or serious setback (esp in the phrase it's not a train smash)
- trainmaster — a person who has charge of operations over one portion of a railroad.
- trans woman — an adult who was born male but whose gender identity is female.
- transdermal — Also, transdermic. transcutaneous.