12-letter words containing m, e, s, a, g
- noise-making — a person or thing that makes noise, as a reveler on New Year's Eve, Halloween, etc., or a rattle, horn, or similar device used on such an occasion.
- nonsegmental — Not segmental.
- numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- nutmeg state — Connecticut (used as a nickname).
- oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- phrasemonger — phrasemaker (def 2).
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- reassemblage — a new or further gathering or collection
- reassignment — something assigned, as a particular task or duty: She completed the assignment and went on to other jobs.
- risk manager — A risk manager is a person who works in risk management.
- risk-manager — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
- rummage sale — a sale of miscellaneous articles, old or new, as items contributed to raise money for charity, of unclaimed goods at a wharf or warehouse, or of odds and ends of merchandise at a shop.
- sausage meat — minced and processed pork
- scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
- sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
- segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
- segmentation — division into segments.
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
- 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.
- semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- semiological — the study of signs and symbols; semiotics.
- septuagesima — the third Sunday before Lent.
- seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
- service game — a game in which a particular tennis player is the one who serves
- simple sugar — monosaccharide.
- singing game — a children's game in which the players perform certain actions to the words of a song.
- single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- sledgehammer — a large heavy hammer wielded with both hands.
- small change — coins of small denomination.
- small magpie — an unrelated micro, Eurrhypara hortulata
- smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
- smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
- stage-manage — to work as a stage manager for: When he wasn't acting, he stage-managed a repertory theater.
- steam engine — an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler.
- steam-engine — an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler.
- steering arm — the part of a vehicle's chassis that directs the input from the steering box
- steinamanger — German name of Szombathely.
- stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
- streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
- syngman rhee — Syngman [sing-muh n] /ˈsɪŋ mən/ (Show IPA), 1875–1965, president of South Korea 1948–60.