13-letter words containing a, s, h, r, m
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
- smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
- snake charmer — an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.
- snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- spanish broom — a spiny, often leafless shrub, Genista hispanica, of the legume family, native to southern Europe, having clustered, golden-yellow flowers and hairy pods.
- spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
- sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
- spermatophore — a capsule surrounding a mass of spermatozoa, produced by the male of various animal species and transferred to the female.
- spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
- spermatorrhea — abnormally frequent and involuntary nonorgasmic emission of semen.
- sportsmanship — the character, practice, or skill of a sportsman.
- state chamber — a room for public ceremonies and celebrations.
- steamer chair — deck chair.
- straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
- stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
- summer squash — any of several squashes of the variety Cucurbita pepo melopepo, that mature in the late summer or early autumn and are used as a vegetable in an unripe state, before the rind and seeds become hard.
- superhumanize — to make superhuman, or represent as such
- suprachiasmic — relating to the area in the hypothalamus that regulates the biological clock
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
- tapestry moth — carpet moth.
- tauromorphous — having the form of a bull
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- thaumaturgist — a worker of wonders or miracles; magician.
- the smart set — The smart set is a group of fashionable and wealthy people.
- theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
- theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
- thermal baths — warm water spa
- thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- thermesthesia — ability to perceive or sense cold or heat; sensitiveness to heat.
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
- thermostating — 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.
- thermostatted — 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.
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- third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- thomas hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- timothy grass — a coarse grass, Phleum pratense, having cylindrical spikes, used as fodder.
- tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
- transhumanism — a philosophy that explores human transcendence above or beyond organic, corporeal limitations through technological and philosophical evolution.
- transisthmian — across an isthmus (a narrow strip of body tissue)
- trash farming — cultivation by leaving stubble, etc, on the surface of the soil to serve as a mulch
- trichromatism — the quality or condition of being trichromatic.