12-letter words containing s, a, m, o, y
- romney marsh — one of an English breed of hardy sheep, having coarse, long wool.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
- satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
- scapulomancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- schizothymia — the condition of being schizoid or introverted. It encompasses elements of schizophrenia but does not involve the same depth of psychological disturbance
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- semiautonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
- serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
- seymour cray — (person) The founder of Cray Research and designer of several of their supercomputers. Cray has been a charismatic yet somewhat reclusive figure. He began Cray Research in Minnesota in 1972. In 1988, Cray moved his Cray-3 project to Colorado Springs. The next year, Cray Research spun it off to create Cray Computer. In 1989, Cray left Cray Research and started Cray Computer Corporation in Colorado Springs. His quest to build a faster computer using new-generation materials failed in 1995, and his bankruptcy cost half a billion dollars and more than 400 jobs. The company was unable to raise $20 million needed to finish the Cray-4 and filed for bankruptcy in March 1995. In the summer of 1996, Cray started a Colorado Springs-based company called SRC Computers, Inc. "We think we'll build computers, but who knows what kind or how," Cray said at the time. "We'll talk it over and see if we can come up with a plan." On 1996-09-22, aged 70, Cray broke his neck in a car accident. Surgery for massive head injuries and swelling of the brain leaving him in a critical and unstable condition.
- shame on you — expressing disapproval
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- smoky quartz — a smoky-yellow to dark brown or black variety of quartz, used as a gem.
- solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
- soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
- 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.
- sphygmograph — an instrument for recording the rapidity, strength, and uniformity of the arterial pulse.
- splenomegaly — enlargement of the spleen.
- stapedectomy — a microsurgical procedure to relieve deafness by replacing the stapes of the ear with a prosthetic device.
- stately home — a country mansion, usually of architectural interest and often open to the public.
- stay-at-home — not inclined to travel or seek diversions or pastimes outside one's residence, area, or country.
- stichomythia — dramatic dialogue, as in a Greek play, characterized by brief exchanges between two characters, each of whom usually speaks in one line of verse during a scene of intense emotion or strong argumentation.
- stop payment — an order by the drawer of a check to his or her bank not to pay a specified check.
- sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- symbolically — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
- symbololatry — the worship of symbols
- symptomatize — symptomize.
- synaptosomal — pertaining to a synaptosome
- syrtis major — an area in the northern hemisphere and near the equator of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- thomas hardy — Godfrey Harold, 1877–1947, English mathematician.
- thomas talys — Thomas, Tallis, Thomas.
- thoracostomy — the construction of an artificial opening through the chest wall, usually for the drainage of fluid or the release of an abnormal accumulation of air.
- tommy atkins — any private of the British army.
- tracheostomy — the construction of an artificial opening through the neck into the trachea, usually for the relief of difficulty in breathing.
- transmogrify — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
- unhandsomely — unattractively
- voluntaryism — voluntarism (def 2).
- xylobalsamum — the dried, fragrant wood of the Balsamodendron gileadense that produces resin known as Balm of Gilead
- yamoussoukro — a republic in W Africa: formerly part of French West Africa; gained independence 1960. 127,520 sq. mi. (330,275 sq. km). Capital: Abidjan.
- your-majesty — regal, lofty, or stately dignity; imposing character; grandeur: majesty of bearing; the majesty of Chartres.
- yukawa meson — a hypothetical elementary particle with finite rest mass, whose exchange between nucleons would account for the strong short-range forces between nucleons: subsequently identified as the pion.