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11-letter words containing m, i, s, o

  • shimonoseki — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: treaty ending Sino-Japanese War signed 1895.
  • shittimwood — the wood of the shittah tree, believed to be a species of acacia
  • short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • showjumping — horseriding event
  • showmanship — the skill or ability of a showman.
  • showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
  • sigmoidally — in the form of a sigmoid
  • silly money — an absurdly large or, less commonly, small amount of money
  • 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.
  • simmer down — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
  • simon magus — Simon (defs 5, 6).
  • simon peter — Peter (def 1).
  • simple pole — a pole of order 1 of a function of a complex variable.
  • simple vows — the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience when taken for a limited period
  • single room — hotel room for one person
  • siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
  • skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
  • skimmington — (in rural Britain, formerly) the custom of forming a mock procession to ridicule an unfaithful spouse
  • slime mould — any of various simple spore-producing organisms typically found as slimy masses on rotting vegetation, where they engulf food particles by amoeboid movements. Formerly regarded as fungi, they are now classified as protoctists of the phyla Myxomycota (true, or cellular slime moulds) or Acrasiomycota (plasmodial slime moulds)
  • slow motion — cinema: slower than in reality
  • slow-motion — of, pertaining to or made in slow motion: a slow-motion replay.
  • slow-moving — proceeding with or characterized by slow, sluggish, or leisurely movement or activity.
  • slumgullion — a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
  • 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-dried — to dry or cure (meat or other food) using smoke.
  • smoking ban — the prohibition of smoking cigarettes, etc in public places
  • smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
  • smoking gun — indisputable proof or evidence of a crime.
  • smoky river — a river in W central Alberta, Canada, flowing N to the Peace River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
  • smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
  • snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball
  • snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
  • snuff movie — Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.
  • snuff-movie — Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.
  • socinianism — the teachings of Faustus Socinus (1539-1604), It. rationalistic religious reformer, denying the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, etc., and holding that salvation is attained solely by practicing the virtues exemplified by Christ
  • sociologism — an explanation, expression, concept, etc., characteristic of sociology, especially when lacking reference to other disciplines concerned with human development.
  • sociometric — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
  • sodium pump — an energy-consuming mechanism in cell membranes that transports sodium ions across the membrane, in exchange for potassium ions or other substances.
  • sodium-free — (of food) containing less than 5 mg of sodium per serving
  • sodomitical — anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex.
  • solarimeter — an instrument for measuring solar radiation.
  • solid model — A solid model is a representation of a solid (= not liquid or gas) object produced by a computer and used in simulation.
  • solmization — the act, process, or system of using certain syllables, especially the sol-fa syllables, to represent the tones of the scale.
  • somatically — of the body; bodily; physical.
  • somaticized — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
  • somatogenic — developing from somatic cells.
  • somatomedin — any of various liver hormones that enhance the activity of a variety of other hormones, as somatotropin.
  • somatotonia — a personality type characterized by assertiveness and energy: said to be correlated with a mesomorph body type
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