11-letter words containing m, h, o, r
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
- smooth over — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- so much for — So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject.
- solar month — month (def 4).
- solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- solo mother — a mother with a dependent child or dependent children and no spouse
- somersworth — a town in SE New Hampshire.
- somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- speech form — linguistic form.
- spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
- spermophyte — spermatophyte.
- spherometer — an instrument for measuring the curvature of spheres and curved surfaces.
- sphygmogram — a tracing or diagram produced by a sphygmograph.
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
- stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
- stethometer — an instrument for measuring the expansion of the chest and abdomen during respiration.
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- storm house — a storm cellar.
- storm watch — watch (def 20).
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- summerhouse — a simple, often rustic structure in a park or garden, intended to provide shade in the summer.
- supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- synchromesh — noting or pertaining to a synchronized shifting mechanism.
- synchromism — a movement of the early 20th century led by American artists and manifested in their experimentation with nonfigurative or entirely abstract paintings containing shapes and volumes of pure color. Compare Orphism (def 2).
- synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- tacheometer — a type of theodolite designed for the rapid measurement of distances, elevations, and directions
- tacheometry — the measurement of distance, etc, using a tacheometer
- tcp theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
- the moer in — furious; enraged
- theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
- theomorphic — having the form or likeness of God or a deity.
- thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
- thermobaric — (of an explosive device or explosion) detonated by means of an explosive substance reacting spontaneously with air
- thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
- thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
- thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
- thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
- thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
- thermometer — an instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube that contains a column of liquid, as mercury, that expands and contracts, or rises and falls, with temperature changes, the temperature being read where the top of the column coincides with a calibrated scale marked on the tube or its frame.
- thermometry — the branch of physics dealing with the measurement of temperature.
- thermomotor — a heat engine.
- thermonasty — a nastic movement in response to a temperature change, as occurs in the opening of certain flowers
- thermophile — a thermophilic organism.