11-letter words containing o, r, s, m
- storm surge — an abnormal rise in the level of the sea along a coast caused by the onshore winds of a severe cyclone.
- storm track — the path followed by the center of a cyclonic storm.
- storm watch — watch (def 20).
- storm water — standing water produced after a heavy rainfall or snowfall
- stormstayed — isolated or unable to travel because of adverse weather conditions, esp a snowstorm
- stramineous — of or resembling straw.
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- stromateoid — resembling or related to the Stromateidae.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- strong meat — anything arousing fear, anger, repulsion, etc, except among a tolerant or receptive minority
- strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.
- subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
- subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- suffer from — be ill with
- summer-long — lasting all summer
- summerhouse — a simple, often rustic structure in a park or garden, intended to provide shade in the summer.
- superbomber — an aircraft used for dropping superbombs
- superimpose — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- supermodern — highly modern
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- superorgasm — an extreme orgasm
- supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
- supportment — the action of supporting
- surmounting — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- swarm spore — zoospore
- swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
- swordswoman — a female who uses or is skilled in the use of a sword.
- syllabogram — a written symbol representing a single syllable
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- synchromesh — noting or pertaining to a synchronized shifting mechanism.
- 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
- tautomerism — the ability of certain organic compounds to react in isomeric structures that differ from each other in the position of a hydrogen atom and a double bond.
- temerarious — reckless; rash.
- tensiometer — an instrument for measuring longitudinal stress in wires, structural beams, etc.
- tensiometry — the study of the measurement of tension
- tetramerous — consisting of or divided into four parts.
- thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
- thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
- thermonasty — a nastic movement in response to a temperature change, as occurs in the opening of certain flowers
- thermoscope — a device that indicates a change in temperature, esp one that does not measure the actual temperature
- thermotaxis — Biology. movement of an organism toward or away from a source of heat.
- toastmaster — a person who presides at a dinner and introduces the after-dinner speakers.
- tradeswoman — a woman engaged in trade.
- trans woman — an adult who was born male but whose gender identity is female.
- transformed — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transformer — a person or thing that transforms.
- tremulously — (of persons, the body, etc.) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.