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13-letter words containing h, e, a, m

  • stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
  • stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
  • stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
  • state chamber — a room for public ceremonies and celebrations.
  • statesmanship — the ability, qualifications, or practice of a statesman; wisdom and skill in the management of public affairs.
  • steam heating — a heating system utilizing steam circulated through radiators and pipes.
  • steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
  • steamer chair — deck chair.
  • steinheim man — a human of the middle Pleistocene Epoch known from a skull found in Germany and considered to be archaic Homo sapiens.
  • stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
  • straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
  • stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
  • sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
  • summer squash — any of several squashes of the variety Cucurbita pepo melopepo, that mature in the late summer or early autumn and are used as a vegetable in an unripe state, before the rind and seeds become hard.
  • superhumanize — to make superhuman, or represent as such
  • surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
  • sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
  • take-home pay — the amount of salary remaining after deductions, as of taxes, have been made.
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • team handball — a game, similar to soccer, played between two teams of seven players who catch, dribble, throw, or hit the ball with the hands.
  • team teaching — a system whereby two or more teachers pool their skills, knowledge, etc, to teach combined classes
  • telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
  • temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
  • the archenemy — the devil
  • the atonement — the redeeming of humanity and its reconciliation with God through the suffering and death of Jesus Christ
  • the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
  • the heavy mob — a group of heavies or enforcers
  • the hermitage — an art museum in St Petersburg, originally a palace built by Catherine the Great
  • the himalayas — a vast mountain system in S Asia, extending 2400 km (1500 miles) from Kashmir (west) to Assam (east), between the valleys of the Rivers Indus and Brahmaputra: covers most of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the S edge of Tibet; the highest range in the world, with several peaks over 7500 m (25 000 ft). Highest peak: Mount Everest, 8848 m (29 028 ft)
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • the small ads — the small ads in a newspaper are short advertisements in which you can advertise something such as an object for sale or a room to let
  • the smart set — The smart set is a group of fashionable and wealthy people.
  • the sum total — the result you get when you add numbers or amounts together
  • the treatment — the usual manner of dealing with a particular type of person (esp in the phrase give someone the (full) treatment)
  • the upper arm — the part of the arm between the shoulder and the elbow
  • the-alchemist — a comedy (1610) by Ben Jonson.
  • the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
  • theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
  • theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
  • thematization — the mental act or process of selecting particular topics as themes in discourse or words as themes in sentences
  • thermal baths — warm water spa
  • thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
  • thermal paper — heat-sensitive paper that is impregnated with a chemical; it is used in thermal printers
  • thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thermesthesia — ability to perceive or sense cold or heat; sensitiveness to heat.
  • thermoammeter — an ammeter that measures amperage by means of a thermocouple.
  • thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
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