12-letter words containing t, r, i, c, s, m
- polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
- porismatical — porismatic
- postorgasmic — of or relating to the period after an orgasm
- postromantic — of or relating to the period after Romanticism
- practicalism — devotion to practical matters.
- pragmaticism — the pragmatist philosophy of C. S. Peirce, chiefly a theory of meaning: so called by him to distinguish it from the pragmatism of William James.
- pragmaticist — a follower of the doctrine of pragmatism
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
- protoplasmic — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
- protosemitic — the hypothetical parent language of the Semitic group of languages
- psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
- rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
- ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- rhythm stick — a small wooden stick used, especially by a child, as a simple percussive instrument in learning the rudiments of musical rhythm.
- sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sarcomatosis — the condition in which a sarcoma has become disseminated throughout the body.
- satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
- scram switch — (jargon) (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
- scribblement — a scribble
- sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- seismometric — of or relating to seismometry or a seismometer
- semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
- semitropical — subtropical.
- shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
- special term — the sitting of a court for the trial of a special case.
- spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermophytic — able to produce seed
- sprechstimme — sprechgesang.
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- 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
- 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.
- stereometric — the measurement of volumes.
- street crime — Street crime refers to crime such as vandalism, car theft and mugging that are usually committed outdoors.
- 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.
- stretch mill — a mill for rolling and stretching seamless tubes, the rolls of each successive stand operating more quickly than those of the preceding.
- strychninism — a condition induced by an overdose or by excessive use of strychnine.
- tensiometric — relating to the measurement of tension
- theocentrism — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
- thermostatic — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- traducianism — the doctrine that the human soul is propagated along with the body. Compare creationism (def 3).