12-letter words containing s, c, r, u, m
- suboperculum — a bone in fishes behind the operculum or gill covering
- summer stock — the production of plays, musical comedy, etc., during the summer, especially in a suburban or resort area, often by a repertory company.
- supernaculum — a highly regarded liquor, to be drunk to the very last drop
- surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
- sursum corda — the words “Lift up your hearts,” addressed by the celebrant of the Mass to the congregation just before the preface.
- synclinorium — a regional structure of general synclinal form that includes a series of smaller folds.
- thumb-sucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- trachomatous — a chronic, contagious infection of the conjunctiva and cornea, characterized by the formation of granulations and scarring and caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.
- traducianism — the doctrine that the human soul is propagated along with the body. Compare creationism (def 3).
- transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
- trichotomous — division into three parts, classes, categories, etc.
- truck system — the system of paying wages in goods instead of money.
- ubermenschen — superman (def 2).
- unbesmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
- unmiraculous — not caused by a miracle
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- very much so — The expression very much so is an emphatic way of answering 'yes' to something or saying that it is true or correct.
- x consortium — A vendor consortium supporting development, evolution and maintenance of the X Window System. The X Consortium is an independent, not-for-profit company. It was formed in 1993 as the successor to the MIT X Consortium, a research group of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.