14-letter words containing m, a, r, s, c, h
- cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- grammar school — an elementary school.
- hammer crusher — A hammer crusher is a crusher in which a hammer hits the material that is being crushed.
- handicraftsman — a person skilled in a handicraft; craftsman.
- hardshell clam — quahog.
- hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
- heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
- home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
- hors de combat — disabled or injured
- horse mackerel — bluefin tuna.
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
- hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- hypermicrosoma — dwarfishness.
- hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
- iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
- isomorphically — In an isomorphic manner.
- james h. clark — Dr. James H. Clark
- lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
- mackerel shark — any of several fierce sharks of the family Lamidae, including the great white shark and the mako.
- macrocephalous — Having a large head.
- magic mushroom — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- marasca cherry — the red acid-tasting fruit of the marasca tree, from which maraschino is made
- marginal hacks — (humour) Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
- master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- metachromatism — change of color, especially that due to variation in the temperature of a body.
- metaphosphoric — applied to an acid (HPO3) containing a molecule less of water than orthophosphoric acid
- method actress — an actress who bases her role on the inner motivation of the character she plays, following the theories of Stanislavsky
- microcephalous — Microcephalic.
- microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
- monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
- musical chairs — Also called going to Jerusalem. a game in which players march to music around two rows of chairs placed back to back, there being one chair less than the number of players, the object being to find a seat when the music stops abruptly. The player failing to do so is removed from the game, together with one chair, at each interval.