16-letter words containing c, h, e, m, s
- schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
- scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
- schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
- schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
- school committee — (in New Zealand) a parent group selected to support a primary school
- sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
- secondhand smoke — smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe that is involuntarily inhaled, especially by nonsmokers.
- secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
- self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
- shopping complex — a shopping centre
- simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
- smack in the eye — a snub or setback
- something fierce — desperately, intensely
- sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
- sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
- spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
- spanish-american — noting or pertaining to the parts of America where Spanish is the prevailing language.
- spectrochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical analysis of substances by means of the spectra of light they absorb or emit.
- spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
- speech community — the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
- spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
- steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
- steamboat gothic — a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
- stick in the mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
- stick-in-the-mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
- stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
- submarine chaser — a small patrol vessel, 100–200 feet (30–60 meters) long, designed for military operations against submarines.
- summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
- synthetic cubism — the late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and material into painting.
- system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
- the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
- the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
- thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
- thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- through-composed — having different music for each verse: a through-composed song. Compare strophic (def 2).
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
- unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
- uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
- when it comes to — with regard to