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15-letter words containing e, t, h, n, o, m

  • paleolithic man — any of the prehistoric populations of humans, as the Cro-Magnon, living in the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs.
  • payment holiday — a break taken from paying ( a debt etc) back
  • permanent tooth — any of the 32 adult teeth that replace the 20 milk teeth.
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phenomenologist — the study of phenomena.
  • phonemicization — a grouping of phonemes
  • photomechanical — noting or pertaining to any of various processes for printing from plates or surfaces prepared by the aid of photography.
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
  • pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • protonephridium — a tubular, excretory structure in certain invertebrates, as flatworms, rotifers, and some larvae, usually ending internally in flame cells and having an external pore
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • put the make on — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • quite something — a remarkable or noteworthy thing or person
  • retirement home — care facility for elderly people
  • reverend mother — a title of respect or form of address for the Mother Superior of a convent
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • roche moutonnee — a rounded, glacially eroded rock outcrop, usually one of a group, resembling a sheep's back.
  • run of the mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
  • run-of-the-mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
  • run-of-the-mine — of or relating to ore or coal that is crude, ungraded, etc.
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
  • shot in the arm — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • the amen corner — the part of a church, usually to one side of the pulpit, occupied by people who lead the responsive amens during the service
  • the common good — If you do something for the common good, you do it for the benefit or advantage of everyone.
  • the common weal — the good of society
  • the last moment — If someone does something at the last moment, they do it at the latest time possible.
  • the next moment — You use the expression the next moment, or expressions such as 'one moment he was there, the next he was gone', to emphasize that something happens suddenly, especially when it is very different from what was happening before.
  • the other woman — married man's female lover
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the reformation — the 16th-cent. religious movement that aimed at reforming the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in establishing the Protestant churches
  • the second form — the second year of secondary school
  • the smart money — If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
  • thermal neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • thermoremanence — the state or quality of being thermoremanent
  • thermosensitive — readily affected by heat or a change in temperature.
  • third dimension — the additional dimension by which a solid object is distinguished from a planar projection of itself or from any planar object.
  • thirtysomething — a person in her or his thirties
  • thyroid hormone — A thyroid hormone is a hormone, especially thyroxine or triiodothyronine, produced by the thyroid gland.
  • to err is human — If you say that to err is human, you mean that it is natural for human beings to make mistakes.
  • to jump the gun — If you jump the gun, you do something before everyone else or before the proper or right time.
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