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

  • spermatothecae — a female reproductive organ in some insects
  • 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.
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • sulphonmethane — a colourless crystalline compound used medicinally as a hypnotic. Formula: C7H16O4S2
  • summer clothes — light clothes which are suitable for summer
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • 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.
  • telephotometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of light emanating from a distant object.
  • 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 atomic age — the current historical period, initiated by the development of the first atomic bomb towards the end of World War II and now marked by a balance of power between nations possessing the hydrogen bomb and the use of nuclear power as a source of energy
  • the full monty — something in its entirety
  • the hexaemeron — the six-day period of the Creation
  • the home front — the civilian population
  • the job market — the people who are looking for work and the jobs available for them to do
  • the long march — a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey
  • the mabinogion — a collection of Welsh tales based on old Celtic legends and mythology in which magic and the supernatural play a large part
  • the mesolithic — the Mesolithic period; Middle Stone Age
  • the omnipotent — an epithet for God
  • the omniscient — God
  • the paranormal — paranormal happenings generally
  • the real mccoy — the genuine thing or person as promised, stated, or implied (usually preceded by the or the real): Those other paintings are copies, but this one is the McCoy.
  • the roman rite — the liturgical rite used in the Diocese of Rome
  • the royal mail — the national postal service of the United Kingdom
  • the unemployed — people who are out of work
  • 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.
  • the-mabinogion — a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.
  • theologoumenon — a theological assertion or statement not derived from divine revelation
  • theory of mind — Psychology, Philosophy. the ability to interpret one’s own and other people’s mental and emotional states, understanding that each person has unique motives, perspectives, etc.: People with autism seem to lack theory of mind. Abbreviation: ToM, TOM.
  • 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.
  • thermoelectric — of, relating to, or involving the direct relationship between heat and electricity.
  • thermoelectron — an electron emitted by an incandescent material.
  • thermoformable — having the ability to be shaped using heat and pressure
  • thermojunction — a point of electrical contact between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears, the magnitude of which depends on the temperature of the contact and the nature of the metals
  • thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
  • thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
  • thermoperiodic — responding to or affected by periodic differences in temperatures.
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • thermoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by changes in temperature.
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