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12-letter words containing s, i, m, u, l

  • 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.
  • simultaneity — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • simultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
  • slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
  • slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
  • smilacaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Smilacaceae, a temperate and tropical family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, most of which are climbing shrubs with prickly stems: includes smilax
  • sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
  • somnambulism — sleepwalking.
  • somnambulist — sleepwalking.
  • somniloquism — sleep-talking
  • somniloquize — to talk in one's sleep
  • spiritualism — the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person (a medium) particularly susceptible to their influence.
  • sporangiolum — a small sporangium
  • statute mile — mile (def 1).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • submissively — inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
  • 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
  • summarizable — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
  • superluminal — appearing to travel faster than the speed of light.
  • 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.
  • swiss muslin — a crisp, sheer muslin that is constructed in plain weave, bleached white or dyed, and often ornamented with raised dots or figures (dotted swiss) used chiefly in the manufacture of curtains and women's summer clothes.
  • synclinorium — a regional structure of general synclinal form that includes a series of smaller folds.
  • time capsule — a receptacle containing documents or objects typical of the current period, placed in the earth or in a cornerstone for discovery in the future.
  • triumphalism — triumphant spirit or character.
  • triumphalist — Triumphalist behaviour is behaviour in which politicians or organizations celebrate a victory or a great success, especially when this is intended to upset the people they have defeated.
  • ultrarealism — extreme or intense realism
  • umnak island — a mountainous island in SW Alaska, in the Fox Islands of the E central Aleutian Islands.
  • un-masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • unassumingly — modest; unpretentious.
  • uncle tomism — a policy of relationship between whites and blacks involving a benevolent but patronizing attitude on the part of the whites and a willingly submissive attitude on the part of the blacks.
  • uncomeliness — the quality or condition of being uncomely
  • undismantled — not dismantled or disassembled; complete, in one piece
  • undissembled — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
  • universalism — universal character; universality.
  • unmiraculous — not caused by a miracle
  • unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
  • unmistakably — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
  • unmoralising — not moralising
  • unnilseptium — bohrium.
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