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

  • 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
  • smallmouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus dolomieu, yellowish-green above and lighter below, having the lower jaw extending to the eye.
  • 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 glamorgan — a county in SE Wales. 161 sq. mi. (416 sq. km).
  • south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
  • spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • 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
  • stigmatophilist — a person who has stigmatophilia
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • sumatra camphor — borneol.
  • 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.
  • thanatognomonic — signalling the nearness of death
  • thank you ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
  • thank-you-ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
  • 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
  • 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
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