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12-letter words containing s, e, r, u, m

  • semilustrous — partially or somewhat lustrous
  • seminiferous — Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
  • seminivorous — feeding on seeds: seminivorous birds.
  • semiprecious — (of a stone) having commercial value as a gem but not classified as precious, as the amethyst or garnet.
  • semivitreous — partially vitreous.
  • serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
  • seymour cray — (person)   The founder of Cray Research and designer of several of their supercomputers. Cray has been a charismatic yet somewhat reclusive figure. He began Cray Research in Minnesota in 1972. In 1988, Cray moved his Cray-3 project to Colorado Springs. The next year, Cray Research spun it off to create Cray Computer. In 1989, Cray left Cray Research and started Cray Computer Corporation in Colorado Springs. His quest to build a faster computer using new-generation materials failed in 1995, and his bankruptcy cost half a billion dollars and more than 400 jobs. The company was unable to raise $20 million needed to finish the Cray-4 and filed for bankruptcy in March 1995. In the summer of 1996, Cray started a Colorado Springs-based company called SRC Computers, Inc. "We think we'll build computers, but who knows what kind or how," Cray said at the time. "We'll talk it over and see if we can come up with a plan." On 1996-09-22, aged 70, Cray broke his neck in a car accident. Surgery for massive head injuries and swelling of the brain leaving him in a critical and unstable condition.
  • shamateurism — a sports term referring to a state in which an athlete is classified as an amateur but acts like a professional, usually by raising money
  • shrimp sauce — a sauce made from shrimps
  • silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
  • simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
  • simple group — a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.
  • simple sugar — monosaccharide.
  • simple syrup — a thick, sweet liquid, usually prepared from sugar and water and used chiefly as a base for soda fountain flavors.
  • skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • slum-dweller — a person who lives in a slum.
  • slumber wear — nightclothes
  • slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
  • slumbershade — sleep shade.
  • smoke jumper — an employee of the forest service parachuted to strategic spots in fighting forest fires
  • somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
  • sorghum beer — beer made from sorghum or millet
  • sound camera — a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.
  • southernmost — farthest south.
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
  • square meter — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one meter on each side. 2 , sq. m. Abbreviation: m.
  • steel lumber — metal lumber composed of sheet steel.
  • 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.
  • stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
  • striped drum — a North American marine and freshwater sciaenid fish, Equetus pulcher, that utters a drumming sound
  • struma-river — a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.
  • stumpknocker — spotted sunfish.
  • sub-mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
  • sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
  • subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
  • subminiature — subminiature camera.
  • submolecular — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
  • suboperculum — a bone in fishes behind the operculum or gill covering
  • subtemperate — of, relating to, or occurring in the colder parts of the Temperate Zone.
  • subumbrellar — of or pertaining to the subumbrella, located beneath the umbrella (of a jellyfish)
  • summarizable — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
  • summer house — outbuilding used for leisure
  • summer sores — a condition of horses in which itchy lesions are caused by infestation of wounds with Habronema larvae from flies
  • summer stock — the production of plays, musical comedy, etc., during the summer, especially in a suburban or resort area, often by a repertory company.
  • summer-sweet — sweet pepperbush.
  • summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
  • sun umbrella — an umbrella by a chair or table, used for protecting you from the sun
  • super-smooth — dead-smooth.
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