12-letter words containing m, e, r, c, a, s
- mornay sauce — a rich white sauce to which grated cheese, usually Swiss or Parmesan, and seasonings have been added
- morris dance — a rural folk dance of north English origin, performed in costume traditionally by men who originally represented characters of the Robin Hood legend, especially in May Day festivities.
- morro castle — a historic fort at the entrance to the harbor of Havana, Cuba.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
- necromancers — Plural form of necromancer.
- neurosarcoma — A malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, a form of cancer of the connective tissue surrounding nerves.
- nomenclators — Plural form of nomenclator.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- osteosarcoma — a malignant tumor of the bone.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- panspermatic — relating to panspermia
- pastry cream — a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- preeclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- 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.
- ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
- recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- reduced mass — a quantity obtained when one particle is moving about another, larger particle that is also moving, equivalent to the mass of the smaller particle, were the larger particle not moving, and equal to the quotient of the product of the two masses divided by their sum.
- remonstrance — an act or instance of remonstrating.
- rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
- rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
- sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sacramentals — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacramentary — a sacramentarian
- sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
- scene master — (on a switchboard) a master switch that controls several lighting circuits.
- 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.
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- sea cucumber — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having a long, leathery body with tentacles around the anterior end.
- sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- 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.
- semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
- semicircular — Also called semicircumference [sem-ee-ser-kuhm-fer-uh ns, -fruh ns, sem-ahy-] /ˌsɛm i sərˈkʌm fər əns, -frəns, ˌsɛm aɪ-/ (Show IPA). half of a circle; the arc from one end of a diameter to the other.
- semitropical — subtropical.
- serial comma — a comma used after the next-to-last item in a series of three or more items when the next-to-last and last items are separated by a conjunction. In the series A, B, C, or D, the comma after C is the series comma.
- service game — a game in which a particular tennis player is the one who serves
- service mark — a proprietary term, such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, American Express, or Planned Parenthood, that is registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. Abbreviation: SM.