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12-letter words containing s, a, n, m, i, c

  • obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • omnidistance — the distance between an omnirange station and a receiver.
  • onomastician — the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names.
  • osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
  • panspermatic — relating to panspermia
  • parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
  • paronomastic — the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
  • phantasmatic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • poison sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus vernix (or Toxicodendron vernix), of swampy areas of the eastern U.S., having pinnate leaves and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to it.
  • postromantic — of or relating to the period after Romanticism
  • primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
  • rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rambus, inc. — (company)   The company which designed Rambus DRAM. Address: Mountain View, CA., USA.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
  • sal ammoniac — ammonium chloride.
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
  • santa monica — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles, on Santa Monica Bay: resort.
  • satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
  • scampishness — the quality of being scampish
  • scapulimancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
  • scott domain — An algebraic, boundedly complete, complete partial order. Often simply called a domain.
  • scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
  • secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
  • sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
  • seismonastic — of or relating to seismonasty
  • semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
  • semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
  • semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
  • 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.
  • semicolonial — partly colonial
  • semimonastic — somewhat monastic; monastic in certain respects
  • servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
  • slam dancing — the act of hurling oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock-music concert
  • slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
  • somaticizing — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
  • somatotensic — (of certain plants that are eaten as food) restoring equilibrium
  • somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
  • spin machine — an organization or group of people acting together to present news or information in a way that creates a particular desired impression
  • 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
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