11-letter words containing m, y, a, t
- pyramid bet — a set of bets on two or more horse races or other sporting events in which the stake and winnings from the first bet automatically become the stake in the next bet, and so on as long as each bet wins.
- radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
- rallymaster — an organizer and director of an automobile rally.
- reformatory — serving or designed to reform: reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- rhythm band — a collection of simple percussion instruments used especially with piano accompaniment to teach musical rhythm.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
- rotary pump — a pump for transferring water or other fluids by the rotating action of its component parts, as by the meshing of vanes or screws.
- rudimentary — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- safety film — Photography. a film having a nonflammable base of triacetate cellulose.
- safety lamp — a miner's lamp in which the flame is protected by wire gauze to prevent the immediate ignition of explosive gases.
- sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
- say amen to — to express strong approval of or support for (an assertion, hope, etc)
- scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
- seamstressy — needlework
- sedimentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
- 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
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- smart money — money invested or wagered by experienced investors or bettors.
- smoky topaz — smoky quartz used as a gemstone: not a true topaz.
- smooth away — to remove (difficulties, obstacles, etc.)
- somatically — of the body; bodily; physical.
- spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
- spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
- star system — the practice of casting and promoting star performers for their ability to draw at the box office.
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- stomatology — the science dealing with the mouth and its diseases.
- stomatotomy — incision of the cervix to facilitate labor.
- stormstayed — isolated or unable to travel because of adverse weather conditions, esp a snowstorm
- streamingly — in a streaming manner
- summability — the quality of being summable
- symmetalism — the use of two or more metals, such as gold and silver, combined in assigned proportions as a monetary standard.
- symmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- sympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- sympathique — pleasing or congenial
- sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
- sympetalous — gamopetalous.
- symptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- synaptosome — a saclike structure at an isolated nerve ending
- synonymatic — relating to, or made up of, synonyms
- syntagmatic — pertaining to a relationship among linguistic elements that occur sequentially in the chain of speech or writing, as the relationship between the sun and is shining or the and sun in the sentence The sun is shining.
- systematics — the study of systems or of classification.
- systematise — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- systematism — the practice of systematizing.
- systematist — a person who constructs a system.
- systematize — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
- table money — an allowance for official entertaining of visitors, etc, esp in the army
- tacheometry — the measurement of distance, etc, using a tacheometer