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14-letter words containing m, o, s, h

  • showbiz column — a column about the entertainment industry
  • showplace home — a historic house
  • sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • simchath torah — a Jewish festival, celebrated on the 23rd day of Tishri, being the 9th day of Sukkoth, that marks the completion of the annual cycle of the reading of the Torah in the synagogue and the beginning of the new cycle.
  • simplex method — a numerical method for solving problems in linear programming.
  • smoked haddock — haddock that has been cured by treating with smoke
  • smoker's cough — a chronic cough caused by smoking.
  • smooth dogfish — any of several requiem sharks having no spines in front of the dorsal fin, especially Mustelus canis, ranging along the American coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • smooth-running — operating in a flowing and effective manner, without difficulties or obstructions
  • smooth-talking — A smooth-talking man talks very confidently in a way that is likely to persuade people, but may not be sincere or honest.
  • smooth-tongued — fluent or convincing in speech; glib.
  • smothered mate — checkmate delivered by a knight when the king's mobility is restricted by his own pieces.
  • soil mechanics — the branch of civil engineering that deals with the mechanical behavior of soil and similar materials when they are compressed or sheared or when liquids flow through them.
  • soldiers' home — an institution that provides care and shelter for retired soldiers.
  • 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
  • something else — sth different
  • something like — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • something's up — something is amiss
  • south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • south el monte — a town in SW California.
  • south thompson — Benjamin, Count Rumford, 1753–1814, English physicist and diplomat, born in the U.S.
  • southern yemen — a former name of Yemen (def 1).
  • sowing machine — a machine that scatters seeds on land so that they may grow
  • spanish omelet — an omelet served with a sauce of tomatoes, onions, and green peppers.
  • spermatorrhoea — abnormally frequent and involuntary nonorgasmic emission of semen.
  • spermatothecae — a female reproductive organ in some insects
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • squash-blossom — indicating or pertaining to a design or configuration resembling the flower of the squash plant, especially as found in jewelry made by various American Indians.
  • staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
  • 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
  • stigmatophilia — a love for body piercing or tattooing that is accompanied by sexual arousal
  • stoichiometric — of or relating to stoichiometry.
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • straw mushroom — a small brown mushroom, Volvariella volvacea, used in Asian cookery.
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • sulphonium ion — a positive ion produced by the addition of a proton to the sulphur atom of a thiol or thio-ether
  • sulphonmethane — a colourless crystalline compound used medicinally as a hypnotic. Formula: C7H16O4S2
  • sulphur-bottom — blue whale.
  • summer clothes — light clothes which are suitable for summer
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • symphonic poem — a form of tone poem, scored for a symphony orchestra, in which a literary or pictorial “plot” is treated with considerable program detail: originated by Franz Liszt in the mid-19th century and developed especially by Richard Strauss.
  • systems theory — an approach to industrial relations which likens the enterprise to an organism with interdependent parts, each with its own specific function and interrelated responsibilities
  • tam-o'-shanter — a cap of Scottish origin, usually made of wool, having a round, flat top that projects all around the head and has a pompon at its center.
  • tenement house — a building divided into tenements, or apartments, now specif. one in the slums that is run-down, overcrowded, etc.
  • tenement-house — Also called tenement house. a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
  • tetrachotomous — divided into four parts
  • texas hold 'em — a popular variety of poker in which each player can use any or all of five shared cards in combination with either or both of two private cards to form the best possible hand of five cards
  • the mesolithic — the Mesolithic period; Middle Stone Age
  • the omniscient — God
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