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12-letter words containing m, a, r, i, h

  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
  • seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
  • shamateurism — a sports term referring to a state in which an athlete is classified as an amateur but acts like a professional, usually by raising money
  • share-milker — (in New Zealand) a person who lives on a dairy farm milking the owner's herd for an agreed share of the profits and, usually, building his own herd simultaneously
  • shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • shrimp sauce — a sauce made from shrimps
  • simhat torah — a Jewish festival, celebrated on the 23d day of Tishri, that marks the end of the annual cycle of Torah readings and the beginning of the next cycle
  • sophomorical — characteristic of a sophomore
  • spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
  • straight man — an entertainer who plays the part of a foil for a comic partner.
  • straight-arm — Football. to push (a potential tackler) away by holding the arm out straight; stiff-arm.
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
  • thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
  • thaumaturgic — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
  • the military — the armed services (esp the army)
  • the-american — a novel (1877) by Henry James.
  • theatromania — an abnormal fondness or mania for the theatre
  • theorematist — a person who creates or discovers a theorem
  • thermal unit — a unit of heat energy or of the equivalent of heat energy in work.
  • thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
  • thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
  • thermohaline — relating to both the temperature and salinity of ocean water
  • thermolabile — subject to destruction or loss of characteristic properties by the action of moderate heat, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermostable).
  • thermostatic — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • third market — a market established by the London Stock Exchange in 1987 to trade in shares in companies required to provide less detailed information than that required by the main market or the unlisted securities market
  • third stream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
  • time charter — the hire of a ship or aircraft for a specified period
  • time sharing — to use or occupy by time-sharing.
  • time-sharing — time-sharing (def 2).
  • tramping hut — a hut in the bush for the use of trampers
  • trichogramma — any minute wasp of the genus Trichogramma, comprising a beneficial group of chalcidflies that parasitize the eggs of a variety of insect pests.
  • trichromatic — pertaining to the use or combination of three colors, as in printing or in color photography.
  • trimmer arch — an arch, usually of brick and in the form of half of a segmental arch, between a chimney and a header in a floor structure to support a hearth.
  • triumphalism — triumphant spirit or character.
  • triumphalist — Triumphalist behaviour is behaviour in which politicians or organizations celebrate a victory or a great success, especially when this is intended to upset the people they have defeated.
  • triumphantly — having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful.
  • typhoid mary — Mary ("Typhoid Mary") 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914.
  • unharmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
  • unharmonized — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
  • villahermosa — a state in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. 9783 sq. mi. (25,338 sq. km). Capital: Villahermosa.
  • virginia ham — a ham from a hog fed on corn and peanuts, cured in hickory smoke.
  • vitamin-rich — (of a food or diet) containing a lot of vitamins or a lot of a particular vitamin
  • watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
  • what is more — moreover, in addition
  • whigmaleerie — a whim; notion.
  • white market — (in a system of rationing) the buying and selling of unused ration coupons at a fluctuating legal price based on the supply of and demand for the rationed commodity.
  • white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
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