12-letter words containing m, a, o, t, i
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semiautonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
- semicomatose — a light coma from which a person can be roused.
- semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
- semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
- semimonastic — somewhat monastic; monastic in certain respects
- semitropical — subtropical.
- senarmontite — a mineral, antimony trioxide, Sb 2 O 3 , occurring in pearl-colored isometric octahedrons: a dimorph of valentinite.
- sensationism — a theory of psychology maintaining that experience consists solely of sensations.
- simhat torah — a Jewish festival, celebrated on the 23d day of Tishri, that marks the end of the annual cycle of Torah readings and the beginning of the next cycle
- simultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- situationism — the theory that behavior is chiefly response to immediate situations.
- 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.
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
- somaesthesia — sensory perception of bodily feelings like touch, pain, position of the limbs, etc
- somatic cell — one of the cells that take part in the formation of the body, becoming differentiated into the various tissues, organs, etc.
- somaticizing — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- somatization — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- somatostatin — a polypeptide hormone, produced in the brain and pancreas, that inhibits secretion of somatotropin from the hypothalamus and inhibits insulin production by the pancreas.
- somatotensic — (of certain plants that are eaten as food) restoring equilibrium
- somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
- stichomythia — dramatic dialogue, as in a Greek play, characterized by brief exchanges between two characters, each of whom usually speaks in one line of verse during a scene of intense emotion or strong argumentation.
- 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.
- stratiformis — occurring in a very extensive horizontal layer.
- stromatolite — a laminated calcareous fossil structure built by marine algae and having a rounded or columnar form.
- surinam toad — a South American aquatic frog, Pipa pipa, the female of which carries the eggs and tadpoles in small depressions on its back.
- svga monitor — (hardware, graphics) A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
- sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- symptomatize — symptomize.
- syrtis major — an area in the northern hemisphere and near the equator of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- tampico hemp — a stiff fiber obtained from the leaves of various species of Agave, as A. falcata or A. sisalana.
- tautomerizes — to undergo tautomerism.
- technomaniac — a person with an obsessional enthusiasm for technology
- 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.
- temptational — the act of tempting; enticement or allurement.
- terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
- tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
- the mountain — an extremist faction during the French Revolution led by Danton and Robespierre
- theatromania — an abnormal fondness or mania for the theatre