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

  • monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
  • morphophonemics — Also called morphonology, morphophonology. the study of the relations between morphemes and their phonological realizations, components, or mappings.
  • non-mechanistic — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
  • nonmonotheistic — Not monotheistic.
  • 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.
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phloem necrosis — a disease of the American elm caused by a mycoplasmalike organism, characterized by yellowing and necrosis of the foliage and yellowish-brown discoloration of the phloem.
  • photomicroscope — a microscope having an illuminator and a camera mechanism for producing a photomicrograph.
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • physicochemical — physical and chemical: the physicochemical properties of an isomer.
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
  • psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
  • psychotomimetic — (of a substance or drug) tending to produce symptoms like those of a psychosis; hallucinatory.
  • raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
  • sausage machine — a machine for making sausages
  • schmitt trigger — a bistable circuit that gives a constant output when the input voltage is above a specified value
  • schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
  • schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
  • seeding machine — a machine for sowing seeds
  • self-enrichment — an act of enriching.
  • semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
  • servo-mechanism — A servo-mechanism is a system or device that provides increased power to operate a control.
  • shalom aleichem — Sholom [shaw-luh m] /ˈʃɔ ləm/ (Show IPA), or Sholem [shoh-lem,, -luh m] /ˈʃoʊ lɛm,, -ləm/ (Show IPA), or Shalom [shah-lohm] /ʃɑˈloʊm/ (Show IPA), (pen name of Solomon Rabinowitz) 1859–1916, Russian author of Yiddish novels, plays, and short stories; in the U.S. from 1906.
  • sharing economy — a system in which people rent, borrow, or share commodities, services, and resources owned by individuals, usually with the aid of online technology, in an effort to save money, cut costs, and reduce waste.
  • sholem aleichem — Sholom [shaw-luh m] /ˈʃɔ ləm/ (Show IPA), or Sholem [shoh-lem,, -luh m] /ˈʃoʊ lɛm,, -ləm/ (Show IPA), or Shalom [shah-lohm] /ʃɑˈloʊm/ (Show IPA), (pen name of Solomon Rabinowitz) 1859–1916, Russian author of Yiddish novels, plays, and short stories; in the U.S. from 1906.
  • sholom aleichem — Sholom [shaw-luh m] /ˈʃɔ ləm/ (Show IPA), or Sholem [shoh-lem,, -luh m] /ˈʃoʊ lɛm,, -ləm/ (Show IPA), or Shalom [shah-lohm] /ʃɑˈloʊm/ (Show IPA), (pen name of Solomon Rabinowitz) 1859–1916, Russian author of Yiddish novels, plays, and short stories; in the U.S. from 1906.
  • socratic method — the use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition.
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • sodium chloride — salt1 (def 1).
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • spanish america — the Spanish-speaking countries south of the U.S.: Mexico, Central America (with the exception of Belize), South America (with the exceptions of Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname), and most of the West Indies.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • stereochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the determination of the relative positions in space of the atoms or groups of atoms in a compound and with the effects of these positions on the properties of the compound.
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • suicide machine — a device designed to permit a terminally ill person to commit suicide, as by the automatic injection of a lethal drug.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • the midas touch — ability to make money
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • thermochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with the relationship between chemical action and heat.
  • tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • training scheme — a scheme for teaching people skills in a particular field or profession
  • tychonic system — a model for planetary motion devised by Tycho Brahe in which the earth is stationary and at the center of the planetary system, the sun and moon revolve around the earth, and the other planets revolve around the sun.
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