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14-letter words containing c, h, e, s, t, m

  • disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
  • electrochemist — A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
  • emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
  • exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
  • face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
  • femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.
  • hamito-semitic — denoting or belonging to this family of languages
  • have a stomack — to be pregnant
  • hepatectomised — Alt form hepatectomized.
  • heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
  • hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
  • heterochromous — of different colors.
  • heterochronism — a change in the stage at which developmental processes take place relative to members of the same species
  • histochemistry — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
  • hors de combat — disabled or injured
  • humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hypercriticism — criticism that is carping or unduly harsh.
  • hypophysectomy — excision of the pituitary gland.
  • hysterectomies — Plural form of hysterectomy.
  • hysterectomise — Alt form hysterectomize.
  • hysterectomize — to remove the uterus from by surgery.
  • iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
  • jackson method — (programming)   A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
  • lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • machine stitch — a stitch created by a sewing machine
  • machine-stitch — to sew on a sewing machine.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • make the scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
  • master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • matched sample — a sample in which the individuals selected for analysis share all properties except that under investigation
  • mathematicians — Plural form of mathematician.
  • medical ethics — the code of behaviour considered to be correct for members of the medical profession
  • medicine chest — bathroom cabinet
  • mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
  • mesaticephalic — (anatomy) Having a cranium with a medium ratio of length to breadth.
  • mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
  • metachromatism — change of color, especially that due to variation in the temperature of a body.
  • metaphosphoric — applied to an acid (HPO3) containing a molecule less of water than orthophosphoric acid
  • metaphysically — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • metaphysicians — Plural form of metaphysician.
  • metapsychology — speculative thought dealing systematically with concepts extending beyond the limits of psychology as an empirical science.
  • metempsychosis — the transmigration of the soul, especially the passage of the soul after death from a human or animal to some other human or animal body.
  • metencephalons — Plural form of metencephalon.
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