11-letter words containing m, e, s, t
- semipalmate — partially or imperfectly palmate, as a bird's foot; half-webbed.
- semiplastic — imperfectly plastic; in a state between rigidity and plasticity.
- semiprivate — having some degree of privacy but not fully private, as a hospital room with fewer beds than a ward.
- semiretired — working part time, as for reasons of ill health or advanced age
- semitrailer — Also called semi. a detachable trailer for hauling freight, with wheels at the rear end, the forward end being supported by the rear of a truck tractor when attached. Compare full trailer.
- sempiternal — everlasting; eternal.
- sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
- sempstering — the profession of being a tailor
- sense datum — Also called sensum. Psychology. the basic unit of an experience resulting from the stimulation of a sense organ; a stimulus or an object of perception or sensation.
- sentimental — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
- septembrist — a person who instigated or took part in the September Massacre.
- septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
- septicaemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- 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.
- sex-limited — (of a gene character) expressed in one sex only.
- sextodecimo — sixteenmo (def 1).
- sgml tagger — (tool) A tool to assist with adding SGML to a piece of text. The Tagger only lets the user insert a mark-up tag which is correct in that particular context.
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- sheet metal — metal in sheets or thin plates.
- sheet music — music printed on unbound sheets of paper.
- shoot'em-up — a book, film, TV show, video game, etc. characterized by much violent content, gunplay, etc., esp. one in the western, crime, or war genres
- shoot-em-up — A shoot-em-up is a computer game that involves shooting and killing characters.
- short metre — a stanza form, used esp for hymns, consisting of four lines, the third of which has eight syllables, while the rest have six
- short money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Commons to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1975
- short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
- siamese cat — one of a breed of slender, short-haired cats, raised originally in Siam, having a fawn or grayish body with extremities of a darker shade of the same color.
- siegmeister — Elie [el-ee] /ˈɛl i/ (Show IPA), 1909–91, U.S. composer.
- sight rhyme — agreement in spelling, but not in sound, of the ends of words or of lines of verse, as in have, grave.
- sillimanite — a mineral, aluminum silicate, Al 2 SiO 5 , occurring in the form of long, slender, and often fibrous crystals.
- silversmith — a person whose occupation is making and repairing articles of silver.
- simethicone — an active ingredient in many antacid preparations that causes small mucus-entrapped air bubbles in the intestines to coalesce into larger bubbles that are more easily passed.
- simon peter — Peter (def 1).
- simple time — a metre in music in which each beat or part divides equally into two
- simpliciter — simply
- single malt — a type of whisky that is made at a single distillery and from one type of malted grain
- single-malt — (of whiskey, especially Scotch) made from unblended malt whiskey distilled at one distillery.
- skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
- slag cement — a cement composed of about 80 percent granulated slag and about 20 percent hydrated lime.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- small white — a small white butterfly, Artogeia rapae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
- smart aleck — an obnoxiously conceited person.
- smart money — money invested or wagered by experienced investors or bettors.
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smear-sheet — a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical specializing in gossip, scandal, malicious innuendo, etc.
- smell a rat — any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
- smithereens — If something is smashed or blown to smithereens, it breaks into very small pieces.
- smithsonite — a native carbonate of zinc, ZnCO 3 , that is an important ore of the metal.
- smoke point — heat at which oil gives off smoke
- smoke-eater — a firefighter.