12-letter words containing h, e, m, t
- rhythmometer — a type of metronome that gives or marks the beat or time in musical movements
- rhythmopoeia — the art or process of composing, for example, music or poetry rhythmically
- rhytidectomy — face-lift.
- rich mixture — A rich mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing an excessive proportion of fuel.
- right-minded — having correct, honest, or good opinions or principles.
- rubber match — rubber2 (def 4)
- safety match — a match designed to ignite only when rubbed on a specially prepared surface.
- saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
- 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.
- see the menu — When a customer asks to see the menu, they ask you to bring them a copy of the menu.
- semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semidetached — partly detached.
- shamateurism — a sports term referring to a state in which an athlete is classified as an amateur but acts like a professional, usually by raising money
- share market — a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- shoot-'em-up — a motion-picture or television program that emphasizes gunplay, action, and often violence.
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- 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
- smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
- somaesthesia — sensory perception of bodily feelings like touch, pain, position of the limbs, etc
- southernmost — farthest south.
- space helmet — a helmet worn by astronauts while in outer space
- spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
- spermophytic — able to produce seed
- sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
- sprechstimme — sprechgesang.
- st. matthews — a town in N Kentucky.
- star chamber — a former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat without a jury and that became noted for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments, abolished 1641.
- 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 hammer — a hammer for forging, operated by steam.
- steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- steam-heated — heated by steam.
- steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- steel helmet — a helmet made of steel
- 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