12-letter words containing ser
- gamal nasser — Gamal Abdel [guh-mahl ab-doo l,, juh-] /gəˈmɑl ˈæb dʊl,, dʒə-/ (Show IPA), 1918–70, Egyptian military and political leader: prime minister of Egypt 1954–56; president of Egypt 1956–58; president of the United Arab Republic 1958–70.
- game reserve — wildlife park, safari park
- geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.
- gold reserve — the stock of gold held by a government or central bank to back its promissory notes or currency or to settle its international debts.
- hairdressers — Plural form of hairdresser.
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- il penseroso — a poem (1632) by John Milton.
- immiseration — to make miserable.
- immiserising — immiserate.
- immiserizing — immiserate.
- immune serum — a serum containing naturally or artificially produced antibodies to a given antigen, obtained from human or animal sources.
- inobservable — Unobservable.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- interservice — (US) Involving relationships between branches of the armed services.
- japonaiserie — stylistic characteristics, as in art, decor, or film, influenced by or reflective of Japanese culture and tradition.
- java servlet — (web) (By analogy with "applet") A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically an HTTP server and responds to requests from clients. The most common use for a servlet is to extend a web server by generating web content dynamically. For example, a client may need information from a database; a servlet can be written that receives the request, gets and processes the data as needed by the client and then returns the result to the client. Servlets are more flexible than CGI scripts and, being written in Java, more portable. The spelling "servelet" is occasionally seen but JavaSoft spell it "servlet". There is no such thing as a "serverlet".
- just deserts — Usually, deserts. reward or punishment that is deserved: Death was his desert. Synonyms: due, payment, recompense, reward; justice, retaliation, retribution, penalty.
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- laser weapon — weapons which make use of lasers or lasers used as weapons
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
- lesser ionic — Prosody. an Ionic foot, verse, or meter.
- lesser panda — panda (def 2).
- lesser scaup — a diving duck, Aythya marila, of Europe and America, having a black-and-white plumage in the male
- lesser-known — less widely known; less famous
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- methysergide — an ergot alkaloid derivative, C 2 1 H 2 7 N 3 O 2 , used in the prophylaxis and treatment of migraine and cluster headaches.
- miserabilism — Gloomy pessimism or negativity.
- miserabilist — One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
- misericordia — (legal, obsolete) An amercement.
- misery index — an unofficial indication of a nation's economic health, derived by adding the percentage rate of inflation to the percentage of unemployed workers: With inflation running at 15 percent and unemployment at 8 percent, the misery index is 23 percent.
- mock-serious — pretending to be serious as a joke, etc
- mount desert — island off the S coast of Me.: resort: c. 100 sq mi (259 sq km)
- multiseriate — arranged or occurring in one or more series.
- multiservice — involving two or more of the armed services
- namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- nefud desert — a desert in N Saudi Arabia: areas of reddish sand. About 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- negev desert — the desert region of S Israel
- news service — an agency that gathers news stories for its members or subscribers. Compare news agency (def 1), press association, wire service.
- nonassertive — Not assertive.
- nonobservant — Not observant; not religious; not participating in the observance of religion.
- nonpasserine — (of a bird) not belonging or relating to the Passeriformes
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
- nurserywomen — Plural form of nurserywoman.