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14-letter words containing m, e, r, t, h

  • primal therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to relive traumatic events, often screaming or crying, in order to achieve catharsis and a breakdown of psychological defenses.
  • prime the pump — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
  • pripet marshes — the largest swamp in Europe, occupying S Belarus and N Ukraine
  • promethea moth — a silkworm moth, Callosamia promethea, having reddish-brown wings, each with a border of white or yellow, the larvae of which feed on spicebush and other lauraceous plants.
  • prominent moth — any moth of the family Notodontidae characterized by tufts of scales on the back edge of the forewing that stand up prominently at rest and give the group its name. It includes the puss moth and buff-tip as well as those with prominent in the name
  • put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • pyrophotometer — a form of pyrometer that measures temperature by optical or photometric means.
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • quantum theory — any theory predating quantum mechanics that encompassed Planck's radiation formula and a scheme for obtaining discrete energy states for atoms, as Bohr theory.
  • radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
  • radium therapy — treatment of disease by means of radium.
  • relinquishment — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
  • rhaeto-romance — the group of closely related Romance dialects, including Romansch and Ladin, spoken in SE Switzerland, the Tirol, and N Italy
  • rhaeto-romanic — a Romance language consisting of Friulian, Tyrolese, Ladin, and the Romansh dialects.
  • rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • saccharomycete — a single-celled yeast of the family Saccharomycetaceae, having no mycelium.
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • schlockmeister — a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.
  • scholar's mate — a simple mate by the queen on the f7 square, achievable by white's fourth move
  • schoolmistress — a woman who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • scrap merchant — dealer in discarded materials
  • scratch monkey — (humour)   As in "Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices. Used to refer to any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get trashed. This term preserves the memory of Mabel, the Swimming Wonder Monkey, star of a biological research program at the University of Toronto. Mabel was not (so the legend goes) your ordinary monkey; the university had spent years teaching her how to swim, breathing through a regulator, in order to study the effects of different gas mixtures on her physiology. Mabel suffered an untimely demise one day when a DEC engineer troubleshooting a crash on the program's VAX inadvertently interfered with some custom hardware that was wired to Mabel. It is reported that, after calming down an understandably irate customer sufficiently to ascertain the facts of the matter, a DEC troubleshooter called up the field circus manager responsible and asked him sweetly, "Can you swim?" Not all the consequences to humans were so amusing; the sysop of the machine in question was nearly thrown in jail at the behest of certain clueless droids at the local "humane" society. The moral is clear: When in doubt, always mount a scratch monkey. A corespondent adds: The details you give are somewhat consistent with the version I recall from the Digital "War Stories" notesfile, but the name "Mabel" and the swimming bit were not mentioned, IIRC. Also, there's a very detailed account that claims that three monkies died in the incident, not just one. I believe Eric Postpischil wrote the original story at DEC, so his coming back with a different version leads me to wonder whether there ever was a real Scratch Monkey incident.
  • segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
  • sharp-tempered — with a tendency to become suddenly angry
  • shirley temple — Shirley (Shirley Temple Black) 1928–2014, U.S. film actress, famous for child roles during the 1930s, and diplomat.
  • short-tempered — having a quick, hasty temper; irascible.
  • shortened form — an abbreviated form of a multisyllable word; clipped form.
  • sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • simple-hearted — free of deceit; artless; sincere.
  • smothered mate — checkmate delivered by a knight when the king's mobility is restricted by his own pieces.
  • somerset house — a building in London, in the Strand, built (1776–86) by Sir William Chambers; formerly housed the General Register Office of births, marriages, and deaths: contains (from 1990) the art collections of the Courtauld Institute
  • south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • southern yemen — a former name of Yemen (def 1).
  • speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
  • spermatorrhoea — abnormally frequent and involuntary nonorgasmic emission of semen.
  • spermatothecae — a female reproductive organ in some insects
  • sphaeristerium — an ancient Roman handball court.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • stealth bomber — a type of US military aircraft using advanced technology to render it virtually undetectable to sight, radar, or infrared sensors
  • stereochemical — of, relating to, stereochemistry
  • stoichiometric — of or relating to stoichiometry.
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • summer clothes — light clothes which are suitable for summer
  • summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
  • summer theater — a theater that operates during the summer, especially in a suburban or resort area, usually offering a different play or musical comedy each week.
  • swimmer's itch — an inflammation of the skin, resembling insect bites, caused by burrowing larval forms of schistosomes.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
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