14-letter words containing m, o, t, h, u
- smooth-running — operating in a flowing and effective manner, without difficulties or obstructions
- smooth-tongued — fluent or convincing in speech; glib.
- 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'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).
- staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- thaumatography — a treatise or description of the wonders of the natural world
- the full monty — something in its entirety
- 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.
- theologoumenon — a theological assertion or statement not derived from divine revelation
- thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
- 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
- thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
- thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
- thesaurismosis — storage disease.
- thomas aquinas — Saint Thomas ("the Angelic Doctor") 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.
- thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
- thorium series — the radioactive series that starts with thorium and ends with a stable isotope of lead of mass number 208.
- 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 the maximum — If you say that someone does something to the maximum, you are emphasizing that they do it to the greatest degree possible.
- tomato ketchup — sauce made from tomatoes
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
- ubv photometry — the photometric measurement of the color index of a star, using ultraviolet, blue, and visual (yellow) filters.
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- up to the mark — acceptably good
- 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.
- welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
- without number — of too great a quantity to be counted; innumerable
- xanthomelanous — of or relating to olive-skinned and dark-haired peoples, belonging to the Xanthomelanoi division
- youth movement — a political, religious or social movement that is made up of young people