11-letter words containing s, e, r, m, o
- speedometer — an instrument on an automobile or other vehicle for indicating the rate of travel in miles or kilometers per hour.
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- sperm donor — a man who supplies sperm to be used in an artificial fertilization process
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermatoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermatozoa — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
- spermophyte — spermatophyte.
- spermotoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermotoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spherometer — an instrument for measuring the curvature of spheres and curved surfaces.
- spinsterdom — the state of being a spinster
- spot market — a market in which commodities, as grain, gold, or crude oil, are dealt in for cash and immediate delivery (distinguished from futures market).
- stactometer — stalagmometer.
- stadiometer — an instrument that measures the length of curves, dashes, etc, by running a toothed wheel along them
- staktometer — an instrument for counting drops of liquid, consisting of a glass tube with a hollow bulb in it and one narrow end with a small opening
- steam organ — calliope (def 1).
- steam radio — radio, seen as old-fashioned in comparison with television
- steamroller — a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
- steganogram — a coded message
- stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
- stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
- stereoimage — the single three-dimensional image perceived in the brain by the coordination of the two slightly different views seen by the eyes.
- stereometer — a device used to ascertain the specific gravity of liquid and porous bodies, powders, and solids
- stereometry — the measurement of volumes.
- stereotomic — the technique of cutting solids, as stones, to specified forms and dimensions.
- stethometer — an instrument for measuring the expansion of the chest and abdomen during respiration.
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- storm force — (on the Beaufort scale) force 10 0r 11
- storm house — a storm cellar.
- storm sewer — a sewer for carrying off rainfall drained from paved surfaces, roofs, etc.
- storm surge — an abnormal rise in the level of the sea along a coast caused by the onshore winds of a severe cyclone.
- storm water — standing water produced after a heavy rainfall or snowfall
- stormstayed — isolated or unable to travel because of adverse weather conditions, esp a snowstorm
- stramineous — of or resembling straw.
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- stromateoid — resembling or related to the Stromateidae.
- strong meat — anything arousing fear, anger, repulsion, etc, except among a tolerant or receptive minority
- strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.
- suffer from — be ill with
- summer-long — lasting all summer
- summerhouse — a simple, often rustic structure in a park or garden, intended to provide shade in the summer.
- superbomber — an aircraft used for dropping superbombs
- superimpose — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- supermodern — highly modern
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- superorgasm — an extreme orgasm
- supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
- supportment — the action of supporting
- swarm spore — zoospore