12-letter words containing s, e, m, i, f
- misspecified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- monospecific — having or comprising a single species
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
- muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
- mutessarifat — a province governed by a mutessarif
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- non-feminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- oversimplify — make too simple
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
- self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
- self-imposed — imposed on one by oneself: a self-imposed task.
- self-limited — (of a disease) running a definite and limited course.
- self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- self-priming — the powder or other material used to ignite a charge.
- semi-fiction — the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.
- semifinalist — a participant or one qualified to participate in a semifinal.
- semifinished — partially or almost finished.
- semiflexible — moderately or somewhat flexible.
- semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
- seminiferous — Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
- semiofficial — having some degree of official authority.
- serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
- simian shelf — a shelflike thickening along the inside of the mandible, characteristic of the anthropoid apes.
- simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
- simplifiable — having the ability to be made less complicated, clearer, or easier
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
- steam fitter — a person who installs and repairs steampipes and their accessories.
- surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
- tempus fugit — time flies
- transfermium — having an atomic number greater than 100, the atomic number of fermium.
- unsimplified — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- west mifflin — a city in W Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.