14-letter words containing m, o, s, h
- the worm turns — If you say that the worm turns, you mean that someone who usually obeys another person or accepts their bad behaviour unexpectedly starts resisting that person or expresses their anger.
- theriomorphism — the identification of animal characteristics with a supernatural being
- thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
- thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
- thermochromism — a phenomenon in which certain dyes made from liquid crystals change colour reversibly when their temperature is changed
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
- thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- thesaurismosis — storage disease.
- thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
- thomas aquinas — Saint Thomas ("the Angelic Doctor") 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.
- thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
- thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
- thomson effect — the tendency of unevenly heated segments of a strip of a conductor to increase or decrease in temperature differences when an electric current is passed through the strip.
- thorium series — the radioactive series that starts with thorium and ends with a stable isotope of lead of mass number 208.
- thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
- thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- thymelaeaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, a family of trees and shrubs having tough acrid bark and simple leaves: includes spurge laurel, leatherwood, and mezereon
- to strike home — If something that is thrown or fired strikes home, it reaches its target.
- top-hat scheme — a pension scheme for the senior executives of an organization
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- trichomoniasis — a sexually transmitted disease typically asymptomatic in men and resulting in vaginitis with a copious, frothy discharge and itching in women, caused by a trichomonad Trichomonas vaginalis.
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unhandsomeness — unattractiveness
- vitreous humor — the transparent gelatinous substance filling the eyeball behind the crystalline lens.
- voucher system — Accounting. a procedure for controlling disbursements by means of vouchers.
- waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
- welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
- white mariposa — a Mariposa lily, Calochortus venustus, having white or pale lilac flowers.
- wild monkshood — a plant, Aconitum uncinatum, of the buttercup family, native to the eastern central U.S., having roundish leaves and hooded, blue flowers, growing in rich, moist soil.
- witches'-besom — witches'-broom.
- witches'-broom — an abnormal, brushlike growth of small thin branches on woody plants, caused especially by fungi, viruses, and mistletoes.
- with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- women's rights — the rights, claimed by and for women, of equal privileges and opportunities with men
- xanthomelanous — of or relating to olive-skinned and dark-haired peoples, belonging to the Xanthomelanoi division