12-letter words containing s, m, a, c
- musicianship — knowledge, skill, and artistic sensitivity in performing music.
- mustache cup — a cup having a straight piece inside, just below the rim, for holding back a man's mustache while he is drinking.
- mycetomatous — relating to or affected by a mycetoma
- mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
- mystagogical — someone who instructs others before initiation into religious mysteries or before participation in the sacraments.
- nasolacrimal — of or relating to the lacrimal structures and the nose.
- nasolacrymal — relating to the tear duct
- necromancers — Plural form of necromancer.
- neurosarcoma — A malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, a form of cancer of the connective tissue surrounding nerves.
- noam chomsky — (Avram) Noam [nohm,, noh-uh m] /noʊm,, ˈnoʊ əm/ (Show IPA), born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.
- noctambulism — somnambulism.
- noctambulist — somnambulism.
- noctambulous — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
- nomenclators — Plural form of nomenclator.
- nominalistic — (philosophy) Having a nominalist character.
- non-monastic — of or relating to monasteries: a monastic library.
- nonclassroom — not located in the traditional classroom
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- numismatical — Alternative form of numismatic.
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- omnidistance — the distance between an omnirange station and a receiver.
- omphaloscopy — Introversion.
- onomastician — the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names.
- optic chiasm — a site at the base of the forebrain where the inner half of the fibers of the left and right optic nerves cross to the opposite side of the brain.
- optimistical — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- oscillograms — Plural form of oscillogram.
- osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
- osteomalacia — a condition characterized by softening of the bones with resultant pain, weakness, and bone fragility, caused by inadequate deposition of calcium or vitamin D.
- osteomalacic — a condition characterized by softening of the bones with resultant pain, weakness, and bone fragility, caused by inadequate deposition of calcium or vitamin D.
- osteosarcoma — a malignant tumor of the bone.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- palimpsestic — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- panspermatic — relating to panspermia
- parachronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date later than the actual one.
- parapsychism — the experience of mental phenomena that are beyond the scope of normal physical explanation
- parochialism — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- paronomastic — the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
- paschal lamb — Jewish History. a lamb slaughtered and eaten on the eve of the first day of Passover. Ex. 12:3–11.
- pastry cream — a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc
- patristicism — the study or science of the Fathers
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata
- phantasmatic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- pictorialism — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
- plasma torch — an electrical device for converting a gas into a plasma, used for melting metal
- plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
- plastic foam — expanded plastic.
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time