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12-letter words containing s, i, a, m

  • re-admission — the act of allowing to enter; entrance granted by permission, by provision or existence of pecuniary means, or by the removal of obstacles: the admission of aliens into a country.
  • re-emphasize — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
  • reassignment — something assigned, as a particular task or duty: She completed the assignment and went on to other jobs.
  • reassimilate — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
  • reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
  • reemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
  • reestimation — judgment or opinion: In my estimation the boy is guilty.
  • reimbursable — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
  • reinstalment — a further or new instalment
  • requiem mass — church service in memory of the dead
  • rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
  • risk manager — A risk manager is a person who works in risk management.
  • risk-manager — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
  • rose diamond — a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top
  • rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
  • sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • saint jerome — Saint (Eusebius Hieronymus) a.d. c340–420, Christian ascetic and Biblical scholar: chief preparer of the Vulgate version of the Bible.
  • saint martha — a sister of Mary and Lazarus, who lived at Bethany and ministered to Jesus (Luke 10:38–42). Feast day: July 29 or June 4
  • saint martin — Saint, died a.d. 655, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 649–655.
  • saint moritz — a resort town in SE Switzerland: a popular center for winter sports. 6037 feet (1840 meters) high.
  • saint thomas — Saint Thomas ("the Angelic Doctor") 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
  • sal ammoniac — ammonium chloride.
  • salamandrian — a salamander of the order Batrachia
  • salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
  • salamandroid — an amphibian of the genus Salamandra
  • salesmanship — the technique of selling a product: They used a promotional gimmick that was the last word in salesmanship.
  • salicylamide — a compound of ammonia and gualtheria oil
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
  • saltationism — any of several theories holding that the evolution of species proceeds in major steps by the abrupt transformation of an ancestral species into a descendant species of a different type, rather than by the gradual accumulation of small changes.
  • salutatorium — a porch or room in a monastery or church serving as a meeting or almsgiving place for monks or priests and the laity.
  • samaritanism — an inhabitant of Samaria.
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
  • san marinese — a small republic in E Italy: the oldest independent country in Europe. 38 sq. mi. (98 sq. km). Capital: San Marino.
  • sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
  • sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
  • santa monica — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles, on Santa Monica Bay: resort.
  • saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
  • sarcomatosis — the condition in which a sarcoma has become disseminated throughout the body.
  • sarie marais — a popular Afrikaans song
  • satin-smooth — pleasantly soft and smooth, like satin
  • satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
  • scampishness — the quality of being scampish
  • scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
  • scapulimancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
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