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

  • spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
  • stabilimeter — stabilograph.
  • star jasmine — a shrubby, evergreen vine, Trachelospermum jasminoides, of the dogbane family, native to China, having small clusters of fragrant, white flowers, often cultivated as an ornamental.
  • steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
  • steam fitter — a person who installs and repairs steampipes and their accessories.
  • steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
  • steam-driven — powered by steam
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
  • subminiature — subminiature camera.
  • 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.
  • surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
  • swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
  • swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
  • taskmistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
  • tautomerizes — to undergo tautomerism.
  • thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
  • theorematist — a person who creates or discovers a theorem
  • thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
  • thermostatic — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • third stream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
  • time sharing — to use or occupy by time-sharing.
  • time-release — timed-release.
  • time-sharing — time-sharing (def 2).
  • times square — a wide intersection extending from 43rd to 47th Streets in central Manhattan, New York City, where Broadway and Seventh Avenue intersect.
  • tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
  • transaminase — any of a class of enzymes, occurring in most plant and animal tissue, that cause transamination.
  • transfermium — having an atomic number greater than 100, the atomic number of fermium.
  • transmigrate — to move or pass from one place to another.
  • transmissive — the act or process of transmitting.
  • transumptive — of or relating to transumption
  • transvestism — the practice, especially of men, of wearing clothing usually associated with the opposite sex for psychological gratification.
  • tryparsamide — a white, crystalline powder, C 8 H 10 O 4 N 2 AsNa·½H 2 , used chiefly in treating African sleeping sickness.
  • turkmenistan — a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.
  • ultrarealism — extreme or intense realism
  • universalism — universal character; universality.
  • unseminaried — not having a seminary education
  • vestimentary — of or relating to clothes or dress
  • villahermosa — a state in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. 9783 sq. mi. (25,338 sq. km). Capital: Villahermosa.
  • watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
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