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16-letter words containing m, h, o

  • so help me (god) — I swear
  • sodium hydroxide — a white, deliquescent, water-soluble solid, NaOH, usually in the form of lumps, sticks, chips, or pellets, that upon solution in water generates heat: used chiefly in the manufacture of other chemicals, rayon, film, soap, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as a caustic.
  • sodium methylate — a white, free-flowing, flammable powder, CH 3 ONa, decomposed by water to sodium hydroxide and methyl alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • sodium phosphate — Also called monobasic sodium phosphate. a white, crystalline, slightly hygroscopic, water-soluble powder, NaH 2 PO 4 , used chiefly in dyeing and in electroplating.
  • solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
  • somehow or other — in an undetermined way
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
  • south vietnamese — of or relating to the former South Vietnam (now part of Vietnam) or its inhabitants
  • spanish moroccan — of or relating to the former Spanish colony of Spanish Morocco (now part of Morocco) or its inhabitants
  • spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
  • spectrochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical analysis of substances by means of the spectra of light they absorb or emit.
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • speech community — the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
  • sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • spongy-mesophyll — the lower layer of the ground tissue of a leaf, characteristically containing irregularly shaped cells with relatively few chloroplasts and large intercellular spaces.
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • steamboat gothic — a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
  • stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • stomach stapling — Stomach stapling is an operation in which part of the stomach is removed in order to help a person to eat less and lose weight.
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • sulfamethoxazole — an antimicrobial substance, C 1 0 H 1 1 N 3 O 3 S, used against a variety of susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms, as in the treatment of certain urinary tract infections and skin infections.
  • summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
  • summation method — a method for associating a sum with a divergent series.
  • surrogate mother — a person who acts in the place of another person's biological mother.
  • synchronous dram — Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
  • telephone number — digits dialled to reach sb by phone
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
  • the amazon basin — the catchment area of the River Amazon
  • the common touch — If you say that someone has the common touch, you mean that they have the natural ability to have a good relationship with ordinary people and be popular with them.
  • the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
  • the home nations — the countries that make up the United Kingdom: England, N. Ireland, Scotland & Wales
  • the honor system — a reliance on people to behave properly without supervision
  • the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • the little woman — one's wife
  • the mekong delta — the area where the Mekong River empties into the sea through distributaries
  • the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the old dominion — a nickname for the US state of Virginia
  • the story of mel — The story of Mel, a Real Programmer
  • thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
  • thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
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