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12-letter words containing t, r, i, e, m

  • 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.
  • streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
  • 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.
  • stress-timed — having a rhythm in which stressed syllables tend to occur at regular intervals of time, regardless of the number of intervening unstressed syllables.
  • 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.
  • striped drum — a North American marine and freshwater sciaenid fish, Equetus pulcher, that utters a drumming sound
  • stromatolite — a laminated calcareous fossil structure built by marine algae and having a rounded or columnar form.
  • struma-river — a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.
  • subminiature — subminiature camera.
  • summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
  • supereminent — of superior eminence, rank, or dignity; distinguished, conspicuous, or worthy of note above others.
  • taskmistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
  • tautomerizes — to undergo tautomerism.
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • temperalitie — temper
  • tensiometric — relating to the measurement of tension
  • terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
  • tertium quid — something related in some way to two things, but distinct from both; something intermediate between two things.
  • tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
  • thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
  • the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
  • the military — the armed services (esp the army)
  • the-american — a novel (1877) by Henry James.
  • theatromania — an abnormal fondness or mania for the theatre
  • theocentrism — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
  • theorematist — a person who creates or discovers a theorem
  • thermal unit — a unit of heat energy or of the equivalent of heat energy in work.
  • thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
  • thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
  • thermohaline — relating to both the temperature and salinity of ocean water
  • thermolabile — subject to destruction or loss of characteristic properties by the action of moderate heat, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermostable).
  • thermometric — an instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube that contains a column of liquid, as mercury, that expands and contracts, or rises and falls, with temperature changes, the temperature being read where the top of the column coincides with a calibrated scale marked on the tube or its frame.
  • thermomotive — pertaining to motion produced by heat.
  • thermophilic — growing best in a warm environment.
  • thermosiphon — an arrangement of siphon tubes that enables water in a heating apparatus to circulate by means of convection.
  • 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.
  • thermotropic — oriented growth of an organism in response to heat.
  • thimbleberry — any of several American raspberries bearing a thimble-shaped fruit, especially the black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis.
  • third market — a market established by the London Stock Exchange in 1987 to trade in shares in companies required to provide less detailed information than that required by the main market or the unlisted securities market
  • third stream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
  • tiger market — any of the four most important markets on the Pacific rim after Japan: Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan
  • tiger mother — a strict mother, especially an East Asian, who demands academic excellence and obedience from her children.
  • timbale iron — a metal mold made in any of several shapes and usually provided with a long handle, for deep-frying timbales.
  • timber hitch — a knot used for tying a rope round a spar, log, etc, for haulage
  • timber limit — the area to which rights of cutting timber, granted by government licence, are limited
  • timber right — ownership of standing timber with no rights to the land.
  • timber-hitch — to fasten by means of a timber hitch.
  • timberdoodle — the American woodcock, Philohela minor.
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