12-letter words containing s, t, a, e, m
- basmati rice — a variety of long-grain rice with slender aromatic grains, used for savoury dishes
- beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
- beth midrash — a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue.
- beth shammai — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish teacher Shammai and characterized by an austere or rigid interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.
- bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
- bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
- biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
- biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
- black stream — a warm ocean current in the Pacific, flowing N along the E coast of Taiwan, NE along the E coast of Japan, and continuing in an easterly direction into the open Pacific.
- blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
- blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
- book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
- boomer state — Oklahoma
- bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- breastsummer — a girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts
- calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
- caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
- cameralistic — of or relating to public finance.
- camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
- carol stream — a town in NE Illinois.
- cash payment — an immediate payment in cash
- caste system — the division of Hindu society into four major hereditary classes
- caustic lime — lime1 (def 1).
- cellarmaster — a person in charge of a wine cellar.
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- cessationism — The concept, amongst most Christians, that the works of the Holy Spirit (speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing, and miracles) ceased at some point in history.
- chamaephytes — Plural form of chamaephyte.
- characterism — the description of character
- charismatize — to impress or influence by charisma.
- chastisement — Chastisement is the same as punishment.
- chastizement — Alternative form of chastisement.
- choirmasters — Plural form of choirmaster.
- chorusmaster — the conductor of a choir
- chrematistic — of, denoting, or relating to money-making
- chrestomathy — a collection of literary passages, used in the study of language
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- clapham sect — a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc
- class method — (programming) 1. A method that operates on a class object (an object of class "class"). A class method is really just an ordinary object method that happens to operate on class objects. A class method might, for example, return a list of objects representing the methods and attributes of the given class. 2. A static method.
- class system — a system in which social status is largely determined by the family into which a person is born
- cleistogamic — Alternative form of cleistogamous.
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- climacterics — Plural form of climacteric.
- close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
- closet drama — drama suitable for reading rather than performing
- clytemnestra — the wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed on his return from the Trojan War
- come to pass — to take place
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- commandments — a command or mandate.
- commemorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commemorate.