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14-letter words containing m, e, s, r

  • spermatothecae — a female reproductive organ in some insects
  • spermiogenesis — the development of a spermatozoon from a spermatid.
  • sphaeristerium — an ancient Roman handball court.
  • spinning frame — a machine for drawing, twisting, and winding yarn.
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • sports complex — exercise facility, leisure centre
  • spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
  • square measure — a system of units for the measurement of surfaces or areas.
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • standard model — a mathematical description of the elementary particles of matter and the fundamental forces by which they interact and behave; a model combining electromagnetic and weak forces.
  • standard money — money made of a metal that has utility and value apart from its use as a unit of monetary exchange.
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
  • stealth bomber — a type of US military aircraft using advanced technology to render it virtually undetectable to sight, radar, or infrared sensors
  • steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
  • steamer basket — a gift basket of fruit, sweets, and the like, often including champagne, sent to a person departing on a trip, especially by ship.
  • stereochemical — of, relating to, stereochemistry
  • stereoisomeric — pertaining to or exhibiting stereoisomerism.
  • stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • stoichiometric — of or relating to stoichiometry.
  • strabismometer — an instrument that measures strabismus
  • straw mattress — bed padding filled with straw
  • stream capture — piracy (def 3).
  • striped marlin — a marlin, Tetrapturus audax, of the Pacific Ocean, having the sides of the body marked with dark blue vertical stripes, valued for sport and food.
  • striped muscle — a type of contractile tissue that is marked by transverse striations; it is concerned with moving skeletal parts to which it is usually attached
  • struck measure — a measure, especially of grain, level with the top of a receptacle.
  • stubble-jumper — a prairie grain farmer
  • stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • sub-government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • sub-postmaster — (in Britain) a man who runs a sub-post office
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • subject matter — the substance of a discussion, book, writing, etc., as distinguished from its form or style.
  • submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
  • subminiaturize — to design or manufacture (equipment, especially electronic equipment) of a greatly reduced scale.
  • sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
  • suicide bomber — A suicide bomber is a terrorist who carries out a bomb attack, knowing that he or she will be killed in the explosion.
  • summer clothes — light clothes which are suitable for summer
  • summer cypress — burning bush (def 2).
  • summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
  • summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
  • summer sausage — dried or smoked sausage that keeps without refrigeration.
  • summer session — An early system on MIT's Whirlwind.
  • summer tanager — a tanager, Piranga rubra, of the south and central U.S., the male of which is rose-red, the female olive-green above and yellow below.
  • summer theater — a theater that operates during the summer, especially in a suburban or resort area, usually offering a different play or musical comedy each week.
  • summer visitor — a person, animal or bird who come to a place in summer
  • superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
  • supercommittee — A supercommittee is a committee which has members from two or more organizations or political groups.
  • supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
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