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15-letter words containing a, m, e, t, h, o

  • payment holiday — a break taken from paying ( a debt etc) back
  • permanent tooth — any of the 32 adult teeth that replace the 20 milk teeth.
  • pharmacotherapy — the treatment of disease through the administration of drugs.
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phonemicization — a grouping of phonemes
  • photomechanical — noting or pertaining to any of various processes for printing from plates or surfaces prepared by the aid of photography.
  • phytochemically — in a phytochemical manner
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
  • pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
  • pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • put sb to shame — If someone puts you to shame, they make you feel ashamed because they do something much better than you do.
  • put the make on — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
  • rutherford atom — the atom postulated as analogous to the solar system, with electrons revolving around a small, central, positive nucleus that constitutes practically the entire mass of the atom
  • saccharomycetes — a collective name for yeasts
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
  • semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
  • shot in the arm — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • socratic method — the use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition.
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • sodium ethylate — a white, hygroscopic powder, C 2 H 5 ONa, that is decomposed by water into sodium hydroxide and alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
  • soft-shell clam — an edible clam, Mya arenaria, inhabiting waters along both coasts of North America, having an oval, relatively thin, whitish shell.
  • software method — Software Methodology
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • the amen corner — the part of a church, usually to one side of the pulpit, occupied by people who lead the responsive amens during the service
  • the common weal — the good of society
  • the holy family — the infant Jesus, Mary, and St Joseph
  • the last moment — If someone does something at the last moment, they do it at the latest time possible.
  • the midas touch — ability to make money
  • the motor trade — the business of selling and buying cars and other road vehicles
  • the other woman — married man's female lover
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the reformation — the 16th-cent. religious movement that aimed at reforming the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in establishing the Protestant churches
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