12-letter words containing s, h, o, r, t, m
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
- monochromats — Plural form of monochromat.
- monochromist — An artist working in the monochromatic style.
- monohydrates — Plural form of monohydrate.
- monostrophic — consisting of stanzas or strophes all having the same metrical structure.
- monotrichous — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- morphologist — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
- morphosyntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
- mother goose — the fictitious author of a collection of nursery rhymes first published in London (about 1760) under the title of Mother Goose's Melody.
- mother house — a convent housing a mother superior of a community of nuns.
- mother's boy — mama's boy.
- mother's day — a day, usually the second Sunday in May, set aside in honor of mothers.
- mother-seton — Saint Elizabeth Ann (Bayley) ("Mother Seton") 1774–1821, U.S. educator, social-welfare reformer, and religious leader: first native-born American to be canonized (1975).
- motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
- motherhouses — Plural form of motherhouse.
- motherliness — The property of being motherly.
- nephrostomes — Plural form of nephrostome.
- nephrotomies — Plural form of nephrotomy.
- neurochemist — A researcher or other professional in the field of neurochemistry.
- northernmost — farthest north.
- nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
- or something — You use something in expressions such as 'or something' and 'or something like that' to indicate that you are referring to something similar to what you have just mentioned but you are not being exact.
- orthodromics — the act or art of sailing on a great circle
- orthotropism — Botany. orthotropic tendency or growth.
- overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- petrochemist — someone who studies petrochemistry or works in the petrochemical industry
- photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- phototropism — phototropic tendency or growth.
- phragmoplast — the cytoplasmic structure that forms at the equator of the spindle after the chromosomes have divided during the anaphase of plant mitosis, and that initiates cell division.
- plasma torch — an electrical device for converting a gas into a plasma, used for melting metal
- propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
- 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.
- ram sth home — If something rams home a message or a point, it makes it clear in a way that is very forceful and that people are likely to listen to.
- saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- scotch broom — the broom, Cytisus scoparius.
- short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
- shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- simhat torah — a Jewish festival, celebrated on the 23d day of Tishri, that marks the end of the annual cycle of Torah readings and the beginning of the next cycle
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
- smother-love — a relationship between a parent and child in which the parent is over-protective to the extent that the child's normal psychological development is inhibited
- smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- southernmost — farthest south.
- spermophytic — able to produce seed