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11-letter words containing m, o, r, n, i

  • simmer down — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
  • simon peter — Peter (def 1).
  • single room — hotel room for one person
  • smoking car — smoker (def 2a).
  • 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
  • somniferous — bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
  • sound mixer — sb who records film sound
  • 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.
  • spinsterdom — the state of being a spinster
  • sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
  • 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
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • surmounting — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
  • swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
  • synchromism — a movement of the early 20th century led by American artists and manifested in their experimentation with nonfigurative or entirely abstract paintings containing shapes and volumes of pure color. Compare Orphism (def 2).
  • synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • syringotomy — surgical removal of a fistula
  • t formation — an offensive formation in which the quarterback lines up directly behind the center with the fullback about three yards behind the quarterback and the halfbacks on opposite sides of and about one yard from the fullback.
  • temporizing — an agreement for a limited period of time
  • tensiometer — an instrument for measuring longitudinal stress in wires, structural beams, etc.
  • tensiometry — the study of the measurement of tension
  • termination — the act of terminating.
  • terminatory — pertaining to or forming the extremity or boundary; terminal; terminating.
  • terminology — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • the moer in — furious; enraged
  • theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
  • thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
  • thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
  • thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
  • timbromania — a mania or passion for stamp-collecting
  • tiring room — a dressing room, especially in a theater.
  • tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
  • trichomonad — any flagellate protozoan of the genus Trichomonas, parasitic in humans or animals.
  • trichonymph — a flagellated protozoan of the genus Trichonympha that lives in the intestine of wood-eating termites, transforming the cellulose in the wood into soluble carbohydrates that can be utilized by the insect.
  • tridominium — the shared rule of three states
  • trimetrogon — of or relating to a system of aerial photography using three cameras, one pointed directly downward and the others at 60° to it.
  • trincomalee — a seaport in E Sri Lanka.
  • tropomyosin — a protein in muscle tissue that works with troponin to control the process by which actin and myosin interact to produce muscle contraction
  • tumorigenic — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • turnip moth — a common noctuid moth, Agrotis segetum, drab grey-brown in colour, the larvae of which feed on root crops and brassica stems
  • tympaniform — resembling or having the form of a drum or drum head
  • tyrosinemia — an inherited disorder of tyrosine metabolism that can lead to liver and kidney disease and mental retardation unless controlled by a special diet.
  • unamortized — Finance. to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), especially by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund. to write off a cost of (an asset) gradually.
  • unconfirmed — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
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