12-letter words containing s, i, a, m
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- steam-engine — an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler.
- steering arm — the part of a vehicle's chassis that directs the input from the steering box
- steinamanger — German name of Szombathely.
- stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
- stichomythia — dramatic dialogue, as in a Greek play, characterized by brief exchanges between two characters, each of whom usually speaks in one line of verse during a scene of intense emotion or strong argumentation.
- stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
- stigmatizing — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
- straight man — an entertainer who plays the part of a foil for a comic partner.
- straight-arm — Football. to push (a potential tackler) away by holding the arm out straight; stiff-arm.
- stratiformis — occurring in a very extensive horizontal layer.
- streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- stromatolite — a laminated calcareous fossil structure built by marine algae and having a rounded or columnar form.
- struma-river — a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.
- subabdominal — below or beneath the abdomen
- subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
- subliminally — existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual: a subliminal stimulus; subliminal advertising.
- submaxillary — of or relating to the lower jaw or lower jawbone.
- submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
- subminiature — subminiature camera.
- submit-table — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- suleiman (i) — 1494?-1566; sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1520-66)
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- sumba strait — an area of water separating Sumba, in the Lesser Sunda Islands, from Flores
- summarizable — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- superluminal — appearing to travel faster than the speed of light.
- supermassive — (of a black hole or star) having a mass in the range of millions or billions of times that of the sun
- supermaxilla — the upper jaw.
- superrealism — photorealism.
- supraliminal — being above the threshold of perception of a stimulus.
- surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
- surinam toad — a South American aquatic frog, Pipa pipa, the female of which carries the eggs and tadpoles in small depressions on its back.
- svga monitor — (hardware, graphics) A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
- swamp rabbit — any of several southern cottontails, especially Sylvilagus aquaticus, of swamps and lowlands.
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- swimming cap — A swimming cap is a rubber cap which you wear to keep your hair dry when you are swimming.
- swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
- sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- symbolically — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
- symmetallism — the use of an alloy of two or more metals in fixed relative value as the standard of value and currency
- sympathizing — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- symptomatize — symptomize.
- syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.
- syntagmatite — a dark crystalline form of hornblende
- syrtis major — an area in the northern hemisphere and near the equator of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- systematical — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- systematized — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- systemically — of or relating to a system.
- taskmistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.