12-letter words containing s, o, r, t, m
- southernmost — farthest south.
- spectrometer — an optical device for measuring wavelengths, deviation of refracted rays, and angles between faces of a prism, especially an instrument (prism spectrometer) consisting of a slit through which light passes, a collimator, a prism that deviates the light, and a telescope through which the deviated light is viewed and examined.
- spectrometry — an optical device for measuring wavelengths, deviation of refracted rays, and angles between faces of a prism, especially an instrument (prism spectrometer) consisting of a slit through which light passes, a collimator, a prism that deviates the light, and a telescope through which the deviated light is viewed and examined.
- spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- 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.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- spermophytic — able to produce seed
- sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
- spot remover — a concentrated cleaning fluid used to remove small areas of staining, such as on a carpet
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- starter home — A starter home is a small, new house or flat which is cheap enough for people who are buying their first home to afford.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-roller — a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
- stem-end rot — a disease of fruits characterized by discoloration, shriveling, and decay of the stem and adjacent parts of the fruit and caused by any of several fungi of the genera Diplodia and Phomopsis.
- stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
- stepmotherly — related to or having the characteristics of a stepmother
- 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
- stereocamera — a stereoscopic camera.
- stereochrome — a picture produced by a process in which water glass is used as a vehicle or as a preservative coating.
- stereochromy — the stereochrome process.
- 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.
- stereoisomer — any of two or more isomers exhibiting stereoisomerism.
- stereometric — the measurement of volumes.
- 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.
- stock market — a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
- stomach worm — a nematode, Haemonchus contortus, parasitic in the stomach of sheep, cattle, and related animals.
- stone marten — a marten, Mustela foina, of Europe and Asia, having a white mark on the throat and breast.
- storm cellar — a cellar or underground chamber for refuge during violent storms; cyclone cellar.
- storm center — the center of a cyclonic storm, the area of lowest pressure and of comparative calm.
- storm centre — the centre of a cyclonic storm, etc, where pressure is lowest
- storm collar — a high collar on a coat
- storm petrel — any of several small, tube-nosed seabirds of the family Hydrobatidae, usually having black or sooty-brown plumage with a white rump.
- storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
- storm troops — shock troops
- storm window — a supplementary window sash for protecting a window against drafts, driving rain, etc.
- storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
- storm-tossed — thrown up and down or side to side by a storm
- stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
- stormtrooper — Stormtroopers were members of a private Nazi army who were well-known for being violent.
- stratiformis — occurring in a very extensive horizontal layer.
- street money — walking-around money (def 2).
- streptomyces — any of several aerobic bacteria of the genus Streptomyces, certain species of which produce antibiotics.
- streptomycin — an antibiotic, C 2 1 H 3 9 N 7 O 1 2 , produced by a soil actinomycete, Streptomyces griseus, and used in medicine in the form of its white, water-soluble sulfate salt, chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- stretch limo — A stretch limo is a very long and luxurious car in which a rich, famous, or important person is driven somewhere.
- strobiliform — shaped as a strobilus
- stromatolite — a laminated calcareous fossil structure built by marine algae and having a rounded or columnar form.
- strontium 90 — a harmful radioactive isotope of strontium, produced in certain nuclear reactions and present in their fallout.