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12-letter words containing m, i, s, a, n

  • smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
  • somaticizing — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
  • somatization — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
  • somatostatin — a polypeptide hormone, produced in the brain and pancreas, that inhibits secretion of somatotropin from the hypothalamus and inhibits insulin production by the pancreas.
  • somatotensic — (of certain plants that are eaten as food) restoring equilibrium
  • somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
  • somnambulism — sleepwalking.
  • somnambulist — sleepwalking.
  • somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • spanish main — (formerly) the mainland of America adjacent to the Caribbean Sea, especially the area between the mouth of the Orinoco River and the Isthmus of Panama.
  • spanish moss — an epiphytic plant, Tillandsia usneoides, of the southern U.S., having narrow, grayish leaves and growing in long festoons that drape the branches of trees.
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • spin machine — an organization or group of people acting together to present news or information in a way that creates a particular desired impression
  • sporangiolum — a small sporangium
  • stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
  • standpattism — belief in or the practice of resisting or refusing to accept change, especially in politics.
  • star jasmine — a shrubby, evergreen vine, Trachelospermum jasminoides, of the dogbane family, native to China, having small clusters of fragrant, white flowers, often cultivated as an ornamental.
  • 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-driven — powered by steam
  • 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.
  • stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
  • stigmatizing — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
  • storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
  • straight man — an entertainer who plays the part of a foil for a comic partner.
  • streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
  • subabdominal — below or beneath the abdomen
  • subliminally — existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual: a subliminal stimulus; subliminal advertising.
  • subminiature — subminiature camera.
  • suleiman (i) — 1494?-1566; sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1520-66)
  • sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
  • superluminal — appearing to travel faster than the speed of light.
  • supraliminal — being above the threshold of perception of a stimulus.
  • surinam toad — a South American aquatic frog, Pipa pipa, the female of which carries the eggs and tadpoles in small depressions on its back.
  • svga monitor — (hardware, graphics)   A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
  • swimming cap — A swimming cap is a rubber cap which you wear to keep your hair dry when you are swimming.
  • swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
  • sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sympathizing — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
  • syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.
  • syntagmatite — a dark crystalline form of hornblende
  • tasting menu — a fixed-price restaurant meal or menu consisting of small portions of numerous dishes: We ordered the 6-course tasting menu for $125.
  • the midlands — the central counties of England, including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, the former West Midlands metropolitan county, and Worcestershire: characterized by manufacturing industries
  • thiosinamine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter-tasting powder, C 4 H 8 N 2 S, occurring in mustard oil: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • thomas paine — Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
  • time sharing — to use or occupy by time-sharing.
  • time-sharing — time-sharing (def 2).
  • time-wasting — causing someone to spend time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit
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