18-letter words containing c, h, e, m, n
- southern cameroons — German Kamerun. a region in W Africa: a German protectorate 1884–1919; divided in 1919 into British and French mandates.
- stinking chamomile — mayweed.
- stockholm syndrome — an emotional attachment to a captor formed by a hostage as a result of continuous stress, dependence, and a need to cooperate for survival.
- submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
- survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
- swedish gymnastics — a system of passive and active exercising of muscles and joints
- sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
- symphony orchestra — a large orchestra composed of wind, string, and percussion instruments and organized to perform symphonic compositions.
- synthetic geometry — elementary geometry, as distinct from analytic geometry.
- 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.
- teaching equipment — teaching aids
- tetrachloromethane — carbon tetrachloride.
- the american dream — the notion that the American social, economic, and political system makes success possible for every individual
- the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
- the dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
- the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
- the uncircumcision — the gentiles
- thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
- thermionic current — an electric current produced by the flow of thermions.
- thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
- thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- to come unstitched — to go wrong or awry
- vermilion rockfish — a scarlet-red rockfish, Sebastes miniatus, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America, important as a food fish.
- widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- writ of attachment — a document by which a court orders the seizing of property in order to ensure satisfaction of a judgement