12-letter words containing m, a, r, s, c, h
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- drama school — a college which trains students (who are generally 18+) to act
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- forasmuch as — since
- from scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- harum-scarum — reckless; rash; irresponsible: He had a harum-scarum youth.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- hypersarcoma — a growth of proud or fungous flesh
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
- isochromatic — Optics. having the same color or tint.
- lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
- macrophysics — the branch of physics that deals with physical objects large enough to be observed and treated directly.
- marsh orchid — any of various orchids of the genus Dactylorhiza, growing in damp places and having mostly purplish flowers
- matriarchies — Plural form of matriarchy.
- mechatronics — The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering for the study of automata from an engineering perspective and the control of advanced hybrid systems.
- megachurches — Plural form of megachurch.
- merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- monochromats — Plural form of monochromat.
- morris chair — a large armchair having an adjustable back and loose, removable cushions.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- parapsychism — the experience of mental phenomena that are beyond the scope of normal physical explanation
- parochialism — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- plasma torch — an electrical device for converting a gas into a plasma, used for melting metal
- rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
- ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- scram switch — (jargon) (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
- scratch mark — the mark left by a scratch
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
- shrimp sauce — a sauce made from shrimps
- sophomorical — characteristic of a sophomore
- speech maker — a person who makes a formal speech