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15-letter words containing m, e, r, c, h

  • parchment paper — a waterproof and grease-resistant paper produced by treating ordinary paper with concentrated sulfuric acid.
  • parmesan cheese — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
  • pharmacotherapy — the treatment of disease through the administration of drugs.
  • phloem necrosis — a disease of the American elm caused by a mycoplasmalike organism, characterized by yellowing and necrosis of the foliage and yellowish-brown discoloration of the phloem.
  • photomicroscope — a microscope having an illuminator and a camera mechanism for producing a photomicrograph.
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • primary teacher — a teacher in a primary school
  • prince charming — (sometimes lowercase) a man who embodies a woman's romantic ideal.
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • radiochemically — by radiochemical means or methods; from a radiochemical perspective
  • raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • reaping machine — any of various machines for reaping grain, often fitted with a device for automatically throwing out bundles of the cut grain.
  • rheumatic fever — a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement.
  • rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • robe-de-chambre — a dressing gown.
  • roche moutonnee — a rounded, glacially eroded rock outcrop, usually one of a group, resembling a sheep's back.
  • saccharomycetes — a collective name for yeasts
  • sacred mushroom — any of various hallucinogenic mushrooms, esp species of Psilocybe and Amanita, that have been eaten in rituals in various parts of the world
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • schmitt trigger — a bistable circuit that gives a constant output when the input voltage is above a specified value
  • schone mullerin — a song cycle (1823), by Franz Schubert, consisting of 20 songs set to poems by Wilhelm Müller.
  • schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
  • scotch foursome — foursome (def 2b).
  • self-enrichment — an act of enriching.
  • semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
  • servo-mechanism — A servo-mechanism is a system or device that provides increased power to operate a control.
  • sex chromosomes — a chromosome, differing in shape or function from other chromosomes, that determines the sex of an individual.
  • sharing economy — a system in which people rent, borrow, or share commodities, services, and resources owned by individuals, usually with the aid of online technology, in an effort to save money, cut costs, and reduce waste.
  • sherlock holmes — a fictitious British detective with great powers of deduction, the main character in many stories by A. Conan Doyle
  • shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
  • socratic method — the use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition.
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • sodium chloride — salt1 (def 1).
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • spanish america — the Spanish-speaking countries south of the U.S.: Mexico, Central America (with the exception of Belize), South America (with the exceptions of Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname), and most of the West Indies.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • stereochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the determination of the relative positions in space of the atoms or groups of atoms in a compound and with the effects of these positions on the properties of the compound.
  • the amen corner — the part of a church, usually to one side of the pulpit, occupied by people who lead the responsive amens during the service
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • the second form — the second year of secondary school
  • theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
  • theatrical film — a film made for exhibition in theaters, as distinguished from one made for television.
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