12-letter words containing m, a, r, i, n, s
- satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semi-organic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- semidarkness — partial darkness.
- senarmontite — a mineral, antimony trioxide, Sb 2 O 3 , occurring in pearl-colored isometric octahedrons: a dimorph of valentinite.
- seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
- serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- silas marner — a novel (1861) by George Eliot.
- silent alarm — an alarm that alerts security personnel or the police without the knowledge of the intruder or criminal whose presence triggers it: The silent alarm set off a flashing light at the police station.
- single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
- sint maarten — St. Martin.
- small ermine — an unrelated micro, Yponomeuta padella
- smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
- somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- star jasmine — a shrubby, evergreen vine, Trachelospermum jasminoides, of the dogbane family, native to China, having small clusters of fragrant, white flowers, often cultivated as an ornamental.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- steering arm — the part of a vehicle's chassis that directs the input from the steering box
- steinamanger — German name of Szombathely.
- 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
- storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
- straight man — an entertainer who plays the part of a foil for a comic partner.
- streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- subminiature — subminiature camera.
- superluminal — appearing to travel faster than the speed of light.
- supraliminal — being above the threshold of perception of a stimulus.
- 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.
- swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
- time sharing — to use or occupy by time-sharing.
- time-sharing — time-sharing (def 2).
- tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- traducianism — the doctrine that the human soul is propagated along with the body. Compare creationism (def 3).
- transaminase — any of a class of enzymes, occurring in most plant and animal tissue, that cause transamination.
- transfermium — having an atomic number greater than 100, the atomic number of fermium.
- transforming — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transformism — the doctrine of gradual transformation of one species into another by descent with modification through many generations.
- transformist — an adherent of transformism.
- transit camp — a camp in which refugees, soldiers, etc, live temporarily before moving to another destination
- transmigrant — a person or thing that transmigrates.