12-letter words containing h, e, m, o, s, t
- neurochemist — A researcher or other professional in the field of neurochemistry.
- northernmost — farthest north.
- nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
- on the stump — If politicians are on the stump, they are campaigning for an election.
- or something — You use something in expressions such as 'or something' and 'or something like that' to indicate that you are referring to something similar to what you have just mentioned but you are not being exact.
- overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- petrochemist — someone who studies petrochemistry or works in the petrochemical industry
- phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
- phonesthemic — (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
- photocompose — to set (type) on a photocomposer.
- photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- postischemic — occurring after or due to ischaemia
- propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
- psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychrometer — an instrument for determining atmospheric humidity by the reading of two thermometers, the bulb of one being kept moist and ventilated.
- psychrometry — the employment of the psychrometer.
- put to shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
- rachiotomies — Plural form of rachiotomy.
- ram sth home — If something rams home a message or a point, it makes it clear in a way that is very forceful and that people are likely to listen to.
- schizomycete — any of numerous microorganisms of the subkingdom (or phylum) Schizophyta, kingdom Monera, comprising the bacteria.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- shoot-'em-up — a motion-picture or television program that emphasizes gunplay, action, and often violence.
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
- smallclothes — men's close-fitting knee breeches of the 18th and 19th centuries
- smooth snake — any of several slender nonvenomous colubrid snakes of the European genus Coronella, esp C. austriaca, having very smooth scales and a reddish-brown coloration
- smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
- smother-love — a relationship between a parent and child in which the parent is over-protective to the extent that the child's normal psychological development is inhibited
- smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- somaesthesia — sensory perception of bodily feelings like touch, pain, position of the limbs, etc
- southernmost — farthest south.
- spermophytic — able to produce seed
- sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
- starter home — A starter home is a small, new house or flat which is cheap enough for people who are buying their first home to afford.
- stately home — a country mansion, usually of architectural interest and often open to the public.
- stay-at-home — not inclined to travel or seek diversions or pastimes outside one's residence, area, or country.
- steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
- stepmotherly — related to or having the characteristics of a stepmother
- stereochrome — a picture produced by a process in which water glass is used as a vehicle or as a preservative coating.
- stereochromy — the stereochrome process.
- stomach ache — pain in gut
- storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
- stretch limo — A stretch limo is a very long and luxurious car in which a rich, famous, or important person is driven somewhere.
- super-smooth — dead-smooth.
- the homeless — those typically poor or sometimes mentally ill people who are unable to maintain a place to live and therefore often may sleep in the streets, parks, etc.
- the mesozoic — the Mesozoic era