12-letter words containing m, o, t, r, e, c
- radiomimetic — (of drugs) producing effects similar to those produced by X-rays
- ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
- receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
- recomforture — consolation; comfort
- recommitment — to commit again.
- recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
- remonstrance — an act or instance of remonstrating.
- renouncement — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- rhamphotheca — the horny covering of a bird's bill.
- rhytidectomy — face-lift.
- rocket motor — engine of a spacecraft
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- root climber — a plant that clings to a surface and climbs by means of adventitious roots, as the ivy, Hedera helix.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- seismometric — of or relating to seismometry or a seismometer
- semitropical — subtropical.
- smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
- spectrometer — an optical device for measuring wavelengths, deviation of refracted rays, and angles between faces of a prism, especially an instrument (prism spectrometer) consisting of a slit through which light passes, a collimator, a prism that deviates the light, and a telescope through which the deviated light is viewed and examined.
- spectrometry — an optical device for measuring wavelengths, deviation of refracted rays, and angles between faces of a prism, especially an instrument (prism spectrometer) consisting of a slit through which light passes, a collimator, a prism that deviates the light, and a telescope through which the deviated light is viewed and examined.
- spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
- spermophytic — able to produce seed
- 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
- stereocamera — a stereoscopic camera.
- stereochrome — a picture produced by a process in which water glass is used as a vehicle or as a preservative coating.
- stereochromy — the stereochrome process.
- stereocilium — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
- stereometric — the measurement of volumes.
- stock market — a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
- storm cellar — a cellar or underground chamber for refuge during violent storms; cyclone cellar.
- storm center — the center of a cyclonic storm, the area of lowest pressure and of comparative calm.
- storm centre — the centre of a cyclonic storm, etc, where pressure is lowest
- streptomyces — any of several aerobic bacteria of the genus Streptomyces, certain species of which produce antibiotics.
- streptomycin — an antibiotic, C 2 1 H 3 9 N 7 O 1 2 , produced by a soil actinomycete, Streptomyces griseus, and used in medicine in the form of its white, water-soluble sulfate salt, chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- stretch limo — A stretch limo is a very long and luxurious car in which a rich, famous, or important person is driven somewhere.
- stumpknocker — spotted sunfish.
- summer stock — the production of plays, musical comedy, etc., during the summer, especially in a suburban or resort area, often by a repertory company.
- telecommuter — person: works from home
- telecomputer — teleprocessing.
- temper color — any of the colors appearing on the surface of clean, unoxidized steel heated in air, from pale yellow at the coolest to dark blue at the hottest: used as an approximate indication of temperature.
- tensiometric — relating to the measurement of tension
- tetrachotomy — the segmentation of something into four parts
- tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
- theocentrism — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
- thermocouple — a device that consists of the junction of two dissimilar metallic conductors, as copper and iron, in which an electromotive force is induced when the conductors are maintained at different temperatures, the force being related to the temperature difference: used to determine the temperature of a third substance by connecting it to the junction of the metals and measuring the electromotive force produced.