15-letter words containing m, o, t, h, r, e
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
- poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
- pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
- posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
- power macintosh — Power Mac
- protonephridium — a tubular, excretory structure in certain invertebrates, as flatworms, rotifers, and some larvae, usually ending internally in flame cells and having an external pore
- psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
- retirement home — care facility for elderly people
- reverend mother — a title of respect or form of address for the Mother Superior of a convent
- rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- roche moutonnee — a rounded, glacially eroded rock outcrop, usually one of a group, resembling a sheep's back.
- rolle's theorem — the theorem that a differentiable function having equal values at the endpoints of an interval has a derivative equal to zero at some point in the interval.
- run of the mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
- run-of-the-mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
- run-of-the-mine — of or relating to ore or coal that is crude, ungraded, etc.
- rutherford atom — the atom postulated as analogous to the solar system, with electrons revolving around a small, central, positive nucleus that constitutes practically the entire mass of the atom
- saccharomycetes — a collective name for yeasts
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- scotch foursome — foursome (def 2b).
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
- shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
- shot in the arm — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- socratic method — the use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition.
- sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
- software method — Software Methodology
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
- spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
- start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
- stereochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the determination of the relative positions in space of the atoms or groups of atoms in a compound and with the effects of these positions on the properties of the compound.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
- telethermometer — any of various thermometers that indicate or record temperatures at a distance, as by means of an electric current.
- the amen corner — the part of a church, usually to one side of the pulpit, occupied by people who lead the responsive amens during the service
- the motor trade — the business of selling and buying cars and other road vehicles
- the other woman — married man's female lover
- the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
- the prime mover — God, esp when considered as a first cause
- the reformation — the 16th-cent. religious movement that aimed at reforming the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in establishing the Protestant churches
- the second form — the second year of secondary school
- the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
- the smart money — If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.
- the working man — working class people collectively
- the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
- theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances