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

  • something to spare — a surplus of something
  • southampton island — an island in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories at the entrance to Hudson Bay. 19,100 sq. mi. (49,470 sq. km).
  • southern cameroons — German Kamerun. a region in W Africa: a German protectorate 1884–1919; divided in 1919 into British and French mandates.
  • spherical geometry — the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.
  • stinking chamomile — mayweed.
  • stoichiometrically — of or relating to stoichiometry.
  • stokely carmichael — Hoagland Howard [hohg-luh nd] /ˈhoʊg lənd/ (Show IPA), ("Hoagy") 1899–1981, U.S. songwriter and musician.
  • stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
  • symphony orchestra — a large orchestra composed of wind, string, and percussion instruments and organized to perform symphonic compositions.
  • systematic phoneme — a phonological unit in generative phonology representing an underlying form that takes into account the relationship between phonological patterns and morphological variation, as the unit underlying the second vowel in both derive and derivative.
  • take it on the lam — a hasty escape; flight.
  • tan someone's hide — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
  • temporary hardness — hardness of water due to the presence of magnesium and calcium hydrogencarbonates, which can be precipitated as carbonates by boiling
  • tetrachloromethane — carbon tetrachloride.
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
  • the family compact — the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century
  • the hand of fatima — a symbol of a hand used in some Arabic countries to protect against the evil eye, a magical power
  • the lords temporal — (in Britain) peers other than bishops in their capacity as members of the House of Lords
  • the magnolia state — a nickname referring to Mississippi
  • the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
  • the mosque of omar — the mosque in Jerusalem, Israel, built in 691 ad by caliph 'Abd al-Malik: the third most holy place of Islam; stands on the Temple Mount alongside the al-Aqsa mosque
  • the mountain state — a nickname referring to West Virginia
  • the palmetto state — a nickname for South Carolina
  • the same old story — the familiar or regular course of events
  • thermogalvanometer — a thermoammeter for measuring small currents, consisting of a thermocouple connected to a direct-current galvanometer.
  • thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
  • thioantimonic acid — a hypothetical acid, H3SbS4, known only in the form of its salts
  • thomas alva edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
  • to cut the mustard — If someone does not cut the mustard, their work or their performance is not as good as it should be or as good as it is expected to be.
  • to meet your match — If you meet your match, you find that you are competing or fighting against someone who you cannot beat because they are as good as you, or better than you.
  • to raise the alarm — If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
  • to take the mickey — If you take the mickey out of someone or something, you make fun of them, usually in an unkind way.
  • to the manner born — a way of doing, being done, or happening; mode of action, occurrence, etc.: I don't like the manner in which he complained.
  • transmission shaft — a shaft that rotates transmitting motion from the engine to the differential gear
  • two-chamber system — the system of having two parliamentary chambers, as the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the United Kingdom
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • watchdog committee — a committee responsible for monitoring standards of behaviour
  • wesleyan methodist — a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.
  • what has become of — If you wonder what has become of someone or something, you wonder where they are and what has happened to them.
  • white-collar crime — any of various crimes, as embezzlement, fraud, or stealing office equipment, committed by business or professional people while working at their occupations.
  • widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
  • withdrawal symptom — effects of stopping a drug
  • woman of the house — lady of the house.
  • woman of the world — a woman experienced and sophisticated in the ways and manners of the world, especially the world of society.
  • writ of attachment — a document by which a court orders the seizing of property in order to ensure satisfaction of a judgement
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