11-letter words containing m, i, s, t, e
- sex-limited — (of a gene character) expressed in one sex only.
- sextodecimo — sixteenmo (def 1).
- sheet music — music printed on unbound sheets of paper.
- 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.
- small white — a small white butterfly, Artogeia rapae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
- 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
- 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
- sociometric — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
- solarimeter — an instrument for measuring solar radiation.
- 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.
- some little — rather extensive; fairly full
- somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- speed limit — the maximum speed at which a vehicle is legally permitted to travel, as within a specific area, on a certain road, or under given conditions.
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermatoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermotoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermotoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spider mite — any of numerous, variously colored web-spinning mites of the family Tetranychidae, many of which are pests of garden plants and fruit trees.
- spinmeister — spin doctor.
- spinsterdom — the state of being a spinster
- st.-emilion — a dry claret wine from the parish of St.-Émilion in the Bordeaux region of France.
- st.-germain — St.-Germain-en-Laye.
- stadiometer — an instrument that measures the length of curves, dashes, etc, by running a toothed wheel along them
- stalagmites — a deposit, usually of calcium carbonate, more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed on the floor of a cave or the like by the dripping of percolating calcareous water.
- 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 train — a locomotive powered by steam
- steamfitter — a highly skilled person who installs and repairs pipes for air conditioning, ventilation, refrigeration, and heating systems
- steelmaking — the manufacture of steel.
- stem ginger — ginger root in sugar syrup
- stem-winder — a stemwinding watch.
- stemwinding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- stereoimage — the single three-dimensional image perceived in the brain by the coordination of the two slightly different views seen by the eyes.