13-letter words containing m, a, h, r, s
- overemphasise — (British) alternative spelling of overemphasize.
- overemphasize — to emphasize excessively.
- paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
- parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- pathomorphism — abnormal morphology.
- peripheralism — the explanation of psychological events emphasizing peripheral human functions, as those of skeletal muscles or the sex organs, rather than cognition or other processes of the central nervous system.
- phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
- phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
- phrase marker — (in generative grammar) a representation of the constituent structure of a sentence, using a tree diagram or labeled bracketing.
- physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- potato-masher — a kitchen implement used to crush or mash potatoes
- pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- protest march — public demonstration
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rhyming slang — a form of slang in which a rhyming word or phrase is substituted for the word intended, as Kate and Sidney for steak and kidney or khaki rocks for army socks.
- rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
- saccharimeter — an optical instrument for determining the strength of sugar solutions by measuring the rotation of the plane of polarized light they produce.
- saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
- saccharometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of sugar in a solution, as by determining the specific gravity of the solution.
- saccharometry — the process of determining the quantity of sugar in a solution
- saccharomyces — a fungus of the genus Saccharomyces, esp the yeast plant
- sacher-masoch — Leopold von [ley-oh-pohlt fuh n] /ˈleɪ oʊˌpoʊlt fən/ (Show IPA), 1836–95, Austrian novelist.
- sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
- schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schwärmerisch — excessively or extremely enthusiastic
- seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- share premium — the excess of the amount actually subscribed for an issue of corporate capital over its par value
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- shear modulus — The shear modulus of a material is how stiff or rigid it is. It is equal to the shear stress divided by the shear strain.
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
- shilling mark — a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
- shoulder arms — to bring the rifle vertically close to the right side with the muzzle uppermost and held at the trigger guard
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- shy away from — If you shy away from doing something, you avoid doing it, often because you are afraid or not confident enough.