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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.
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