12-letter words containing r, e, a, m, n
- sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semi-organic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- semidarkness — partial darkness.
- senarmontite — a mineral, antimony trioxide, Sb 2 O 3 , occurring in pearl-colored isometric octahedrons: a dimorph of valentinite.
- seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
- serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
- serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- shanks' mare — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.
- silas marner — a novel (1861) by George Eliot.
- silent alarm — an alarm that alerts security personnel or the police without the knowledge of the intruder or criminal whose presence triggers it: The silent alarm set off a flashing light at the police station.
- single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
- sint maarten — St. Martin.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
- small ermine — an unrelated micro, Yponomeuta padella
- small screen — the medium of television.
- small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
- smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
- sound camera — a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- star jasmine — a shrubby, evergreen vine, Trachelospermum jasminoides, of the dogbane family, native to China, having small clusters of fragrant, white flowers, often cultivated as an ornamental.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- steering arm — the part of a vehicle's chassis that directs the input from the steering box
- steinamanger — German name of Szombathely.
- stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
- 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
- stone marten — a marten, Mustela foina, of Europe and Asia, having a white mark on the throat and breast.
- streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- subminiature — subminiature camera.
- sun umbrella — an umbrella by a chair or table, used for protecting you from the sun
- superluminal — appearing to travel faster than the speed of light.
- supermundane — above and beyond the nature or character of the worldly or terrestrial.
- supernaculum — a highly regarded liquor, to be drunk to the very last drop
- supramundane — transcending the world
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- sweet marten — the European pine marten, Martes martes : trapped for its fur and now greatly reduced in number.
- swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
- syngman rhee — Syngman [sing-muh n] /ˈsɪŋ mən/ (Show IPA), 1875–1965, president of South Korea 1948–60.
- telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
- temporaneous — lasting a short while
- ternary form — a musical form in three sections, with the third usually an exact repetition of the first.
- terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
- testamentary — of, relating to, or of the nature of a testament or will.