0%

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.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?