12-letter words containing s, m, a, r, y
- milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
- miraculously — In a miraculous manner.
- misportrayal — the act of portraying.
- mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
- monohydrates — Plural form of monohydrate.
- mornay sauce — a rich white sauce to which grated cheese, usually Swiss or Parmesan, and seasonings have been added
- morphosyntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
- mother's day — a day, usually the second Sunday in May, set aside in honor of mothers.
- murphy's law — the facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will.
- mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
- mystery play — a medieval dramatic form based on a Biblical story, usually dealing with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
- nasolacrymal — relating to the tear duct
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- parapsychism — the experience of mental phenomena that are beyond the scope of normal physical explanation
- pastry cream — a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- post-primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
- praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
- pre-assembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
- quarrymaster — a person in charge of a quarry
- rhadamanthys — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
- romney marsh — one of an English breed of hardy sheep, having coarse, long wool.
- sacramentary — a sacramentarian
- saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
- satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
- sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- self-mastery — self-control.
- serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
- seymour cray — (person) The founder of Cray Research and designer of several of their supercomputers. Cray has been a charismatic yet somewhat reclusive figure. He began Cray Research in Minnesota in 1972. In 1988, Cray moved his Cray-3 project to Colorado Springs. The next year, Cray Research spun it off to create Cray Computer. In 1989, Cray left Cray Research and started Cray Computer Corporation in Colorado Springs. His quest to build a faster computer using new-generation materials failed in 1995, and his bankruptcy cost half a billion dollars and more than 400 jobs. The company was unable to raise $20 million needed to finish the Cray-4 and filed for bankruptcy in March 1995. In the summer of 1996, Cray started a Colorado Springs-based company called SRC Computers, Inc. "We think we'll build computers, but who knows what kind or how," Cray said at the time. "We'll talk it over and see if we can come up with a plan." On 1996-09-22, aged 70, Cray broke his neck in a car accident. Surgery for massive head injuries and swelling of the brain leaving him in a critical and unstable condition.
- sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- smarty-pants — smarty.
- smoky quartz — a smoky-yellow to dark brown or black variety of quartz, used as a gem.
- solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
- spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
- spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
- sphygmograph — an instrument for recording the rapidity, strength, and uniformity of the arterial pulse.
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- streamer fly — an artificial fly having a wing or wings extending beyond the crook of the fishhook.
- submaxillary — of or relating to the lower jaw or lower jawbone.
- symbololatry — the worship of symbols
- syngman rhee — Syngman [sing-muh n] /ˈsɪŋ mən/ (Show IPA), 1875–1965, president of South Korea 1948–60.
- 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.