11-letter words containing m, a, h, r
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- serrano ham — cured ham from Spain
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- sharefarmer — a farmer who pays a fee to another in return for use of land to raise crops, etc
- sir michael — Sir Michael (Kemp) 1905–98, British composer.
- sky marshal — an armed plainclothes federal marshal riding on an airliner to protect against skyjacking.
- slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- small hours — pre-dawn
- smallholder — owner of small plot of land
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smear-sheet — a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical specializing in gossip, scandal, malicious innuendo, etc.
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
- solar month — month (def 4).
- solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
- sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
- spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
- spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
- sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
- sphygmogram — a tracing or diagram produced by a sphygmograph.
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- storm watch — watch (def 20).
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- tacheometer — a type of theodolite designed for the rapid measurement of distances, elevations, and directions
- tacheometry — the measurement of distance, etc, using a tacheometer
- tack hammer — a light hammer for driving tacks, often magnetized to hold the tack to the head.
- tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- tetradrachm — an ancient coin with a value of four drachmas
- tetrahymena — any ciliated protozoan of the genus Tetrahymena, a relative of the paramecium: often used in genetics research.
- tetratheism — the belief that the Christian God is four persons
- thatcherism — the conservative policies, political philosophy, and leadership style of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, characterized especially by monetarism, privatization, and labor union reform.
- thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
- thaumaturge — a worker of wonders or miracles; magician.
- thaumaturgy — the working of wonders or miracles; magic.
- the marches — borderlands between England & Scotland and between England & Wales
- the midrash — these commentaries and notes collectively
- the permian — the Permian period or rock system
- the slammer — prison
- theatricism — theatricalism.
- thermically — in a thermic manner
- thermobaric — (of an explosive device or explosion) detonated by means of an explosive substance reacting spontaneously with air
- thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
- thermonasty — a nastic movement in response to a temperature change, as occurs in the opening of certain flowers
- thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
- thermotaxis — Biology. movement of an organism toward or away from a source of heat.