13-letter words containing h, o, m, i
- schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- semiochemical — a chemical substance produced by an animal and used in communications, such as a pheromone
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
- shipping room — a place in a business concern where goods are packed and shipped.
- shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
- shopping mall — mall (def 1).
- short-termism — If you accuse people of short-termism, you mean that they make decisions that produce benefits now or soon, rather than making better decisions that will produce benefits in the future.
- silkworm moth — any of several moths of the families Bombycidae and Saturniidae, the larvae of which are silkworms.
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
- somatopsychic — of or relating to the effects of the body on the mind.
- somersetshire — a county in SW England. 1335 sq. mi. (3455 sq. km).
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- south vietnam — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
- spanish broom — a spiny, often leafless shrub, Genista hispanica, of the legume family, native to southern Europe, having clustered, golden-yellow flowers and hairy pods.
- sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
- spokesmanship — the office or skilful use of the office of spokesman
- sportsmanship — the character, practice, or skill of a sportsman.
- stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
- swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
- sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- symphysiotomy — a surgical procedure to facilitate labour
- synodic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- synophthalmia — cyclopia.
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- thalamifloral — relating to the Thalamiflorae
- the big smoke — a large city, esp London
- theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
- thematization — the mental act or process of selecting particular topics as themes in discourse or words as themes in sentences
- theriomorphic — (of deities) thought of or represented as having the form of beasts.
- 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.
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermogenesis — the production of heat, especially in an animal body by physiological processes.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermosetting — pertaining to a type of plastic, as the urea resins, that sets when heated and cannot be remolded.
- thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
- thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
- thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- thermotensile — of or relating to tensile strength in so far as it is affected by temperature
- thermotropism — oriented growth of an organism in response to heat.
- thigmotropism — oriented growth of an organism in response to mechanical contact, as a plant tendril coiling around a string support.
- think more of — to have a higher opinion of
- think much of — to have a high opinion of
- thioacetamide — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 2 H 5 NS, used chiefly in analytical chemistry as a source of hydrogen sulfide.
- thiocarbamide — thiourea.