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16-letter words containing i, n, t, h, e, m

  • plainclothes man — a detective or police officer who wears civilian clothes while on duty
  • pneumatic trough — a trough filled with liquid, especially water, for collecting gases in bell jars or the like by displacement.
  • poynting theorem — the theorem that the rate of flow of electromagnetic energy through unit area is equal to the Poynting vector, i.e. the cross product of the electric and magnetic field intensities
  • re-establishment — the act or an instance of establishing.
  • reaction chamber — the chamber in a rocket engine in which the reaction or combustion of fuel occurs
  • residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • safety mechanism — a psychological or physiological response in an individual that protects the individual from harm
  • saint-barthelemy — (Saint Bartholomew; Saint Barts; Saint Barths) a resort island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands, part of the French department of Guadeloupe. 6900; 8 sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
  • scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
  • schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
  • schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • semi-hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
  • shemini atzereth — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 22nd day of Tishri, being the 8th day of Sukkoth: marked by a memorial service for the dead and prayers for rain in Israel.
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • siberian mammoth — a shaggy-coated mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, that lived in cold regions across Eurasia and North America during the Ice Age, known from fossils, cave paintings, and well-preserved frozen carcasses.
  • smack in the eye — a snub or setback
  • smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
  • smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • south vietnamese — of or relating to the former South Vietnam (now part of Vietnam) or its inhabitants
  • spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
  • speech community — the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
  • stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
  • stick in the mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • stick-in-the-mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • summation method — a method for associating a sum with a divergent series.
  • summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
  • synthetic cubism — the late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and material into painting.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • teaching machine — a mechanical, electrical, or other automatic device that presents the user with items of information in planned sequence, registers his or her response to each item, and immediately indicates the acceptability of each response.
  • the amazon basin — the catchment area of the River Amazon
  • the caine mutiny — a novel by Herman Wouk, later made into a film
  • the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
  • the home nations — the countries that make up the United Kingdom: England, N. Ireland, Scotland & Wales
  • the little woman — one's wife
  • the mendip hills — a range of limestone hills in SW England, in N Somerset: includes the Cheddar Gorge and numerous caves. Highest point: 325 m (1068 ft)
  • the missing link — a hypothetical extinct animal or animal group, formerly thought to be intermediate between the anthropoid apes and man
  • the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the old dominion — a nickname for the US state of Virginia
  • thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
  • thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thermoanesthesia — thermanesthesia.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
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