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11-letter words containing s, t, o, r, m, e

  • stactometer — stalagmometer.
  • stadiometer — an instrument that measures the length of curves, dashes, etc, by running a toothed wheel along them
  • staktometer — an instrument for counting drops of liquid, consisting of a glass tube with a hollow bulb in it and one narrow end with a small opening
  • steam organ — calliope (def 1).
  • steam radio — radio, seen as old-fashioned in comparison with television
  • steamroller — a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
  • steganogram — a coded message
  • stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
  • stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
  • stereoimage — the single three-dimensional image perceived in the brain by the coordination of the two slightly different views seen by the eyes.
  • stereometer — a device used to ascertain the specific gravity of liquid and porous bodies, powders, and solids
  • stereometry — the measurement of volumes.
  • stereotomic — the technique of cutting solids, as stones, to specified forms and dimensions.
  • stethometer — an instrument for measuring the expansion of the chest and abdomen during respiration.
  • stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
  • storm force — (on the Beaufort scale) force 10 0r 11
  • storm house — a storm cellar.
  • storm sewer — a sewer for carrying off rainfall drained from paved surfaces, roofs, etc.
  • storm surge — an abnormal rise in the level of the sea along a coast caused by the onshore winds of a severe cyclone.
  • storm water — standing water produced after a heavy rainfall or snowfall
  • stormstayed — isolated or unable to travel because of adverse weather conditions, esp a snowstorm
  • stramineous — of or resembling straw.
  • strike home — to deliver an effective blow
  • stromateoid — resembling or related to the Stromateidae.
  • strong meat — anything arousing fear, anger, repulsion, etc, except among a tolerant or receptive minority
  • strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.
  • supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
  • supportment — the action of supporting
  • swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
  • tautomerism — the ability of certain organic compounds to react in isomeric structures that differ from each other in the position of a hydrogen atom and a double bond.
  • temerarious — reckless; rash.
  • tensiometer — an instrument for measuring longitudinal stress in wires, structural beams, etc.
  • tensiometry — the study of the measurement of tension
  • tetramerous — consisting of or divided into four parts.
  • thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
  • thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
  • thermonasty — a nastic movement in response to a temperature change, as occurs in the opening of certain flowers
  • thermoscope — a device that indicates a change in temperature, esp one that does not measure the actual temperature
  • thermotaxis — Biology. movement of an organism toward or away from a source of heat.
  • toastmaster — a person who presides at a dinner and introduces the after-dinner speakers.
  • tradeswoman — a woman engaged in trade.
  • transformed — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transformer — a person or thing that transforms.
  • tremulously — (of persons, the body, etc.) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.
  • tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
  • triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
  • trispermous — having three seeds.
  • troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
  • trypanosome — any minute, flagellate protozoan of the genus Trypanosoma, parasitic in the blood or tissues of humans and other vertebrates, usually transmitted by insects, often causing serious diseases, as African sleeping sickness in humans, and many diseases in domestic animals.
  • tschernosem — chernozem.
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