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

  • provost marshal — Army. an officer on the staff of a commander, charged with the maintaining of order and with other police functions within a command.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • ramrod straight — having a very straight figure
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • 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
  • schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
  • 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.
  • shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
  • 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.
  • software method — Software Methodology
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • south glamorgan — a county in SE Wales. 161 sq. mi. (416 sq. km).
  • 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
  • sumatra camphor — borneol.
  • 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 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
  • the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the smart money — If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
  • theory of games — game theory.
  • thermal equator — an imaginary line round the earth running through the point on each meridian with the highest average temperature. It lies mainly to the north because of the larger landmasses and therefore greater summer heating
  • thermal neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • thermal reactor — a nuclear reactor in which most of the fission is caused by thermal neutrons
  • thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
  • thermobarometer — Also called hypsometer. an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, and sometimes altitude, from its effect upon the boiling point of a liquid.
  • thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
  • thermoremanence — the state or quality of being thermoremanent
  • to err is human — If you say that to err is human, you mean that it is natural for human beings to make mistakes.
  • tomato hornworm — the larva of a hawk moth, Manduca quinquemaculata, having a black, hornlike structure at the rear, that feeds on the leaves of tomato, potato, and other plants of the nightshade family.
  • topographic map — a map showing topographic features, usually by means of contour lines.
  • torture chamber — a room where somebody is caused extreme physical pain, esp in order to extract information, break resistance, etc
  • tribromoethanol — a white, crystalline powder, C 2 H 3 Br 3 O, used as a basal anesthetic.
  • trichomonacidal — relating to a trichomonacide
  • trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
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