21-letter words containing m, a, n, s, h
- shams ud-din mohammed — (Shams ud-din Mohammed) c1320–89? Persian poet.
- sherman antitrust act — an act of Congress (1890) prohibiting any contract, conspiracy, or combination of business interests in restraint of foreign or interstate trade.
- siamese fighting fish — a labyrinth fish, Betta splendens, that has been bred for centuries to develop brilliant coloration, very long fins, and pugnacity.
- sick to one's stomach — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- slatwall merchandiser — A slatwall merchandiser is a three-dimensional display unit with grooves cut into its surface into which metal hanging rails can be fixed at various heights.
- somatotrophic-hormone — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
- splice the main brace — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- statistical mechanics — the science that deals with average properties of the molecules, atoms, or elementary particles in random motion in a system of many such particles and relates these properties to the thermodynamic and other macroscopic properties of the system.
- steal someone's heart — to cause someone to feel love or affection
- swim against the tide — to resist prevailing opinion
- sympathetic vibration — a vibration induced by resonance.
- symphonie fantastique — a programmatic symphony (1830–31) in five movements by Hector Berlioz.
- the (norman) conquest — the conquering of England by the Normans under William the Conqueror in 1066
- the assessment method — a way of providing evidence that students' knowledge and learning match the aims of a course
- the comrades marathon — an annual long-distance race run every year on the 16th of June from Durban to Pietermaritzburg, a distance of approximately 90 kilometres (56 miles)
- the executive mansion — the White House
- the man in the street — If you talk about the man in the street or the man or woman in the street, you mean ordinary people in general.
- the women's land army — a unit of women recruited to do agricultural work in the United Kingdom during World War I and World War II
- thermal decomposition — Thermal decomposition is the process in which a chemical species breaks down when its temperature is increased.
- thermal power station — a power station in which heat is converted into electricity
- throw someone a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- to lay something bare — If you lay something bare, you uncover it completely so that it can then be seen.
- weinberg-salam theory — electroweak theory.
- what price something? — what are the chances of something happening now?
- youth training scheme — (formerly, in Britain) a scheme, run by the Training Agency, to provide vocational training for unemployed 16–17-year-olds