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12-letter words containing m, i, t, r, a

  • shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • silent alarm — an alarm that alerts security personnel or the police without the knowledge of the intruder or criminal whose presence triggers it: The silent alarm set off a flashing light at the police station.
  • simhat torah — a Jewish festival, celebrated on the 23d day of Tishri, that marks the end of the annual cycle of Torah readings and the beginning of the next cycle
  • similarities — the state of being similar; likeness; resemblance.
  • sint maarten — St. Martin.
  • smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
  • somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
  • special term — the sitting of a court for the trial of a special case.
  • spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
  • spermaticide — spermicide.
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
  • spiritualism — the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person (a medium) particularly susceptible to their influence.
  • spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
  • stabilimeter — stabilograph.
  • stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
  • 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 boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
  • steam fitter — a person who installs and repairs steampipes and their accessories.
  • steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
  • steam-driven — powered by steam
  • 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
  • stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
  • 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.
  • straight-arm — Football. to push (a potential tackler) away by holding the arm out straight; stiff-arm.
  • stratiformis — occurring in a very extensive horizontal layer.
  • streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
  • stromatolite — a laminated calcareous fossil structure built by marine algae and having a rounded or columnar form.
  • struma-river — a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.
  • subminiature — subminiature camera.
  • sumba strait — an area of water separating Sumba, in the Lesser Sunda Islands, from Flores
  • 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.
  • swamp rabbit — any of several southern cottontails, especially Sylvilagus aquaticus, of swamps and lowlands.
  • syrtis major — an area in the northern hemisphere and near the equator of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • tank farming — hydroponics.
  • taskmistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
  • tautomerizes — to undergo tautomerism.
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • temperalitie — temper
  • terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
  • tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
  • thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
  • thaumaturgic — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
  • the military — the armed services (esp the army)
  • the-american — a novel (1877) by Henry James.
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