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12-letter words containing s, e, c, r, t, m

  • periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
  • peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata
  • petrochemist — someone who studies petrochemistry or works in the petrochemical industry
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
  • protosemitic — the hypothetical parent language of the Semitic group of languages
  • psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
  • psychrometer — an instrument for determining atmospheric humidity by the reading of two thermometers, the bulb of one being kept moist and ventilated.
  • psychrometry — the employment of the psychrometer.
  • rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
  • ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
  • ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
  • receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
  • recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
  • remonstrance — an act or instance of remonstrating.
  • sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • sacramentals — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • sacramentary — a sacramentarian
  • scene master — (on a switchboard) a master switch that controls several lighting circuits.
  • schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • scribblement — a scribble
  • sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • seismometric — of or relating to seismometry or a seismometer
  • semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
  • special term — the sitting of a court for the trial of a special case.
  • spectrometer — an optical device for measuring wavelengths, deviation of refracted rays, and angles between faces of a prism, especially an instrument (prism spectrometer) consisting of a slit through which light passes, a collimator, a prism that deviates the light, and a telescope through which the deviated light is viewed and examined.
  • spectrometry — an optical device for measuring wavelengths, deviation of refracted rays, and angles between faces of a prism, especially an instrument (prism spectrometer) consisting of a slit through which light passes, a collimator, a prism that deviates the light, and a telescope through which the deviated light is viewed and examined.
  • spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
  • spermaticide — spermicide.
  • spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • 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.
  • spermophytic — able to produce seed
  • sprechstimme — sprechgesang.
  • star chamber — a former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat without a jury and that became noted for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments, abolished 1641.
  • 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
  • stereocamera — a stereoscopic camera.
  • stereochrome — a picture produced by a process in which water glass is used as a vehicle or as a preservative coating.
  • stereochromy — the stereochrome process.
  • stereocilium — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
  • stereometric — the measurement of volumes.
  • stock market — a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
  • storm cellar — a cellar or underground chamber for refuge during violent storms; cyclone cellar.
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