11-letter words containing m, a, p, e, r
- sugar maple — any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.
- summer camp — a camp, especially one for children during the summer, providing facilities for sleeping and eating, and usually for handicrafts, sports, etc.
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- superorgasm — an extreme orgasm
- supremacist — a person who believes in or advocates the supremacy of a particular group, especially a racial group: a white supremacist.
- suprematism — a nonrepresentational style of art developed in Russia in the early 20th century, characterized by severely simple geometric shapes or forms and an extremely limited palette.
- swamp barge — A swamp barge is a vessel used for offshore drilling in very shallow water, which is towed out and then rests on the bottom.
- swamp fever — leptospirosis.
- swarm spore — zoospore
- sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
- tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tamperproof — that cannot be tampered with; impervious to tampering: a tamper-proof lock.
- team player — a person who willingly works in cooperation with others.
- team spirit — camaraderie, esprit de corps
- temperament — the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person; natural predisposition.
- temperately — moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion, statement, etc.: a temperate response to an insulting challenge.
- temperative — having a mitigating quality
- temperature — a measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to some standard value. The temperature of two systems is the same when the systems are in thermal equilibrium.
- temporality — temporal character or nature; temporariness.
- temporalize — to make temporal in time; place in time.
- temporarily — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
- the permian — the Permian period or rock system
- thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
- thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
- timepleaser — a timeserver.
- trapeziform — formed like a trapezium.
- trypanosome — any minute, flagellate protozoan of the genus Trypanosoma, parasitic in the blood or tissues of humans and other vertebrates, usually transmitted by insects, often causing serious diseases, as African sleeping sickness in humans, and many diseases in domestic animals.
- ultrasimple — extremely or exceptionally easy
- underdamper — a piano damper that is found below the hammers
- unempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- unhampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- unpermeable — capable of being permeated.
- vampire bat — any of several New World tropical bats of the genera Desmodus, Diphylla, and Diaemus, the size of a small mouse, feeding on small amounts of blood obtained from resting mammals and birds by means of a shallow cut made with specialized incisor teeth.
- vaporimeter — an instrument for measuring vapor pressure or volume.
- volt-ampere — an electric measurement unit, equal to the product of one volt and one ampere, equivalent to one watt for direct current systems and a unit of apparent power for alternating current systems. Abbreviation: VA.
- water nymph — a nymph of the water, as a naiad, a Nereid, or an Oceanid.
- weather map — a map or chart showing weather conditions over a wide area at a particular time, compiled from simultaneous observations at different places.