11-letter words containing m, e, r, u, t
- scoutmaster — the leader or officer in charge of a band of scouts.
- semi-mature — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- semiamateur — retaining amateur status but receiving prize money or support, as from a sponsor, to cover training expenses.
- seminatural — partly natural and partly cultivated
- sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
- sericterium — a silk-producing gland in a silkworm
- sex tourism — a vacation to a destination that has no restrictions on sexual services or activities, as prostitution.
- sojournment — the state of sojourning
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- steamer rug — a coarse, heavy lap robe used by ship passengers sitting in deck chairs.
- storm house — a storm cellar.
- storm surge — an abnormal rise in the level of the sea along a coast caused by the onshore winds of a severe cyclone.
- stramineous — of or resembling straw.
- strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
- stripe smut — a disease of grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the leaves, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Urocystis and Ustilago.
- strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.
- stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.
- subminister — to supply
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- summer term — school trimester from spring to summer
- summer time — Chiefly British. daylight-saving time.
- summercater — a person who lives on the Maine coast only in the summer.
- summersault — to perform a somersault.
- supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
- supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
- supersystem — an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
- supportment — the action of supporting
- 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.
- surmistress — a female deputy headteacher
- tamburlaine — Tamerlane.
- târgu mureş — a city in central Romania.
- targu-mures — a city in central Romania.
- tautomerism — the ability of certain organic compounds to react in isomeric structures that differ from each other in the position of a hydrogen atom and a double bond.
- tautomerize — to undergo tautomerism.
- tautometric — having the same metre or arrangement of syllables
- tegumentary — a covering or vestment; integument.
- temerarious — reckless; rash.
- 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.
- termitarium — a termites' nest.
- tetramerous — consisting of or divided into four parts.
- tetrazolium — a derivative of an acidic chemical compound
- 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.
- thaumaturge — a worker of wonders or miracles; magician.
- the numbers — an illegal lottery in which small bets are placed on the order of certain numbers, usually the last three, in some tabulation of game scores or financial reports published in the daily newspapers
- thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
- thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- thumbsucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- thunder mug — a chamber pot.