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15-letter words containing m, o, t, r, c

  • resurrectionism — the exhumation and stealing of dead bodies, especially for dissection.
  • retained income — retained earnings.
  • 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.
  • rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
  • romantic comedy — a light and humorous movie, play, etc., whose central plot is a happy love story.
  • romanticization — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • rules committee — a special committee of a legislature, as of the U.S. House of Representatives, having the authority to establish rules or methods for expediting legislative action, and usually determining the date a bill is presented for consideration.
  • saccharomycetes — a collective name for yeasts
  • samuel prescott — Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
  • sclerodermatous — Zoology. covered with a hardened tissue, as scales.
  • scotch foursome — foursome (def 2b).
  • scpi consortium — (body)   A body established to promote Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments. Address: 8380 Hercules Drive, Suite P3, La Mesa, CA 91942, USA.
  • second mortgage — a mortgage the lien of which is next in priority to a first mortgage.
  • secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
  • secret mosquito — a high-pitched ringtone for a mobile phone, claimed by its distributors to be inaudible to most adults while remaining audible to children and teenagers
  • semantic memory — the recollection of facts and concepts
  • semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
  • semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
  • semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
  • shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
  • shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
  • simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
  • sister of mercy — a member of a congregation of sisters founded in Dublin in 1827 by Catherine McAuley (1787–1841) and engaged chiefly in works of spiritual and corporal mercy.
  • smoking-concert — a concert where smoking is allowed.
  • social democrat — a person who advocates a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
  • 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.
  • sodium citrates — the sodium salts of citric acid (monosodium citrate, disodium citrate, trisodium citrate)
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • source document — a document that has been or will be transcribed to a word processor or to the memory bank of a computer
  • source material — original, authoritative, or basic materials utilized in research, as diaries or manuscripts.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • sports medicine — a field of medicine concerned with the functioning of the human body during physical activity and with the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries.
  • statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
  • steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
  • 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.
  • storm insurance — insurance cover against damage caused by windstorms
  • sumatra camphor — borneol.
  • summer solstice — the solstice on or about June 21st that marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • super-committee — a committee with members from two or more organizations or political groups
  • symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
  • tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
  • talcum (powder) — a powder for the body and face made of powdered, purified talc, usually perfumed
  • teratocarcinoma — a monstrous malignant tumour typically found in the testes
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