11-letter words containing m, o, n, i, t, s
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- pronatalism — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
- protagonism — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- pumpstation — A pumpstation is a place with pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.
- rationalism — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
- reactionism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- relationism — a doctrine maintaining the existence of relations between things
- romanticise — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
- romanticist — an adherent of romanticism in literature or art (contrasted with classicist).
- ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- saint-simon — Comte de, 1760–1825, French philosopher and social scientist.
- salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
- saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
- seismonasty — a nastic movement in response to shock, esp the rapid folding of the leaflets of the sensitive plant due to changes in turgor pressure caused by vibration
- semimonthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- semiotician — the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- 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).
- skimmington — (in rural Britain, formerly) the custom of forming a mock procession to ridicule an unfaithful spouse
- slow motion — cinema: slower than in reality
- slow-motion — of, pertaining to or made in slow motion: a slow-motion replay.
- 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
- solmization — the act, process, or system of using certain syllables, especially the sol-fa syllables, to represent the tones of the scale.
- 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
- somatotonic — a person who has a somatotonic personality
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- spermatoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermotoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- sphinx moth — hawk moth.
- spinsterdom — the state of being a spinster
- spodomantic — relating to spodomancy
- st.-emilion — a dry claret wine from the parish of St.-Émilion in the Bordeaux region of France.
- staminodium — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- steam point — the temperature at which water vapor condenses at a pressure of one atmosphere, represented by 100°C and 212°F.
- stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stop motion — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.
- stop-motion — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.
- storm drain — rainwater drainage hole or gutter
- stramineous — of or resembling straw.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.