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15-letter words containing c, h, e, s, m

  • impact adhesive — a glue designed to give adhesion when two coated surfaces are pressed together
  • incomprehension — lack of comprehension or understanding: The audience listened politely but with incomprehension.
  • incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
  • laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
  • lzh compression — (algorithm)   (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
  • macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
  • machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • male chauvinism — the beliefs, attitudes, or behavior of male chauvinists (men who patronize, disparage, or otherwise denigrate females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit).
  • male chauvinist — a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
  • manasseh cutler — Manasseh, 1742–1823, U.S. Congregational clergyman and scientist: promoted settlement of Ohio; congressman 1801–05.
  • mannheim school — a group of musicians of the mid-18th century in Mannheim, Germany, notable for developing a style of orchestral composition and performance directly antecedent to and influential on the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • market research — investigation into consumers' needs
  • market-research — to conduct market research on.
  • masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
  • master mechanic — a mechanic, especially one who is thoroughly skilled, in charge of other mechanics.
  • measuring chain — a flexible length of metal links used in calculating distances
  • mechanic's lien — a lien secured on property, as an automobile, building, or the like, by the contractor who has repaired or built it, in order to ensure payment for labor and materials.
  • mechanistically — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
  • mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
  • medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
  • merchant seaman — a seaman who works on a merchant vessel.
  • merry christmas — well-wishes for Christmas season
  • mesh connection — (in a polyphase system) an arrangement in which the end of each phase is connected to the beginning of the next, forming a ring, each junction being connected to a terminal
  • metamathematics — the logical analysis of the fundamental concepts of mathematics, as number, function, etc.
  • metatarsal arch — the short lateral arch of the foot formed by the heads of the metatarsal bones.
  • methylcellulose — a grayish-white powder prepared from cellulose that swells to a highly viscous colloidal solution in water: used as a food additive and in water paints, leather tanning, and cosmetics.
  • mexican spanish — Spanish as used in Mexico. Abbreviation: MexSp.
  • michaelmas term — the autumn term at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the Inns of Court, and some other educational establishments
  • microaerophiles — Plural form of microaerophile.
  • mischaracterize — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
  • mischievousness — maliciously or playfully annoying.
  • miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
  • mishnaic hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 to 500.
  • monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
  • monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
  • monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
  • morphophonemics — Also called morphonology, morphophonology. the study of the relations between morphemes and their phonological realizations, components, or mappings.
  • mourners' bench — a front row of seats at a revival meeting, for those who are to profess penitence
  • non-mechanistic — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
  • nonmonotheistic — Not monotheistic.
  • off one's chump — insane; crazy
  • old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
  • ophthalmoscopes — Plural form of ophthalmoscope.
  • pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
  • parasympathetic — pertaining to that part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves and ganglia that arise from the cranial and sacral regions and function in opposition to the sympathetic system, as in inhibiting heartbeat or contracting the pupil of the eye.
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