11-letter words containing m, e, s, t
- steam organ — calliope (def 1).
- steam point — the temperature at which water vapor condenses at a pressure of one atmosphere, represented by 100°C and 212°F.
- steam radio — radio, seen as old-fashioned in comparison with television
- steam table — a boxlike table or counter, usually of stainless steel, with receptacles in the top into which containers of food may be fitted to be kept warm by steam or hot water in the compartment below.
- steam train — a locomotive powered by steam
- steam-chest — the chamber from which steam enters the cylinder of an engine.
- steamer rug — a coarse, heavy lap robe used by ship passengers sitting in deck chairs.
- steamfitter — a highly skilled person who installs and repairs pipes for air conditioning, ventilation, refrigeration, and heating systems
- steamroller — a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
- steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
- steganogram — a coded message
- stem canker — a disease of plants characterized by cankers on the stems and twigs and caused by any of several fungi.
- stem ginger — ginger root in sugar syrup
- stem-winder — a stemwinding watch.
- stemwinding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- stench bomb — a small bomb made to emit a foul smell on exploding.
- stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
- stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
- stentmaster — a person who determines the amount of tax owed by the denizens of a town or parish
- stereoimage — the single three-dimensional image perceived in the brain by the coordination of the two slightly different views seen by the eyes.
- stereometer — a device used to ascertain the specific gravity of liquid and porous bodies, powders, and solids
- stereometry — the measurement of volumes.
- stereotomic — the technique of cutting solids, as stones, to specified forms and dimensions.
- sterlitamak — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, W of the Southern Urals.
- stethometer — an instrument for measuring the expansion of the chest and abdomen during respiration.
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- stigmatized — marked out or described (as something bad)
- still frame — continuous display of a single frame of a film or of a single picture from a television signal
- stimulative — serving to stimulate.
- stomachache — pain in the stomach or abdomen; colic.
- stomachless — lacking or not having a stomach
- storm force — (on the Beaufort scale) force 10 0r 11
- storm house — a storm cellar.
- storm sewer — a sewer for carrying off rainfall drained from paved surfaces, roofs, etc.
- storm surge — an abnormal rise in the level of the sea along a coast caused by the onshore winds of a severe cyclone.
- storm water — standing water produced after a heavy rainfall or snowfall
- stormstayed — isolated or unable to travel because of adverse weather conditions, esp a snowstorm
- stramineous — of or resembling straw.
- stream feed — (on a photocopier, printer) a continuous supply of paper
- streamingly — in a streaming manner
- streamlined — streamlined.
- streamliner — something that is streamlined, especially a locomotive or passenger train.
- street name — a broker who holds securities registered in his or her name instead of in the name of the customer, especially for convenience in executing transfers and in pledging for borrowing in margin accounts.
- stress mark — a mark placed before, after, or over a syllable to indicate stress in pronunciation; accent mark.
- strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- 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.
- stromateoid — resembling or related to the Stromateidae.
- strong meat — anything arousing fear, anger, repulsion, etc, except among a tolerant or receptive minority
- strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.