20-letter words containing m, s, h, e

quaker meeting house — a place where Quakers gather for worship
raynaud's phenomenon — a secondary circulatory disorder, often associated with a primary vascular disease, characterized by changes of blood flow resulting in white, bluish, or red hands and feet
repurchase agreement — a contract between a dealer, as a bank, and an investor, whereby the investor purchases securities with the promise that they will be bought back by the dealer on a designated date, for which the investor receives a fixed return.
rheumatoid arthritis — a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation of the joints, frequently accompanied by marked deformities, and ordinarily associated with manifestations of a general, or systemic, affliction.
ride on shank's mare — to walk
rocky mountain sheep — bighorn.
saint john ambulance — an organization that provides first aid and first-aid training
satellite chromosome — a type of densely staining chromosome of uncertain biological function, found in many plant and animal species.
saxe-weimar-eisenach — a former grand duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
scheme object system — (SOS) Chris Hanson?
semiautobiographical — pertaining to or being a fictionalized account of an author's own life.
shaken baby syndrome — a usually fatal condition of abused infants brought on by violent shaking by the arms or shoulders that causes severe internal bleeding, especially around the brain and in the eyes.
shear transformation — a map of a coordinate space in which one coordinate is held fixed and the other coordinate or coordinates are shifted.
shibah asar betammuz — Shivah Asar Betammuz.
shivah asar betammuz — a Jewish fast day observed on the 17th day of Tammuz in memory of the breach of the walls of Jerusalem by the Romans in a.d. 70.
short message system — A short message system is a way of sending short written messages from one mobile phone to another. The abbreviation SMS is also used.
snow-on-the-mountain — a North American euphorbiaceous plant, Euphorbia marginata, having white-edged leaves and showy white bracts surrounding small flowers
software methodology — (programming) The study of how to navigate through each phase of the software process model (determining data, control, or uses hierarchies, partitioning functions, and allocating requirements) and how to represent phase products (structure charts, stimulus-response threads, and state transition diagrams).
some hope/not a hope — If you say 'Some hope', or 'Not a hope', you think there is no possibility that something will happen, although you may want it to happen.
south american plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising the continent of South America and several ocean basins and bounded on the north by the Caribbean Plate, on the east by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, on the west by a submarine trench that borders the western coast of the continent, and on the south by the Antarctic Plate.
south temperate zone — the part of the earth's surface between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle.
spanish-american war — the war between the U.S. and Spain in 1898.
spiral of archimedes — a curve that is the locus of a point that moves outward with uniform speed along a vector, beginning at the origin, while the vector rotates about the origin with uniform angular velocity. Equation (in polar coordinates): r = aθ.
splice the mainbrace — to issue and partake of an extra allocation of alcoholic spirits
stochastic terrorism — the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted: The lone-wolf attack was apparently influenced by the rhetoric of stochastic terrorism.
stoichiometric ratio — The stoichiometric ratio is the exact ratio between air and flammable gas or vapor at which complete combustion takes place.
sweetheart agreement — a contract made through collusion between management and labor representatives containing terms beneficial to management and detrimental to union workers.
take something amiss — to be annoyed or offended by something
that makes two of us — the same applies to me
the (great) pyramids — the three large pyramids at Gîza, Egypt: the largest is the Pyramid of Khufu
the eye of the storm — If you say that someone or something is at the eye of the storm, you mean they are the main subject of a public disagreement.
the garment industry — the manufacturing of items of clothing
the gnomes of zurich — Swiss bankers and financiers
the methodist church — a group of people within the Christian religion who follow a system of faith and practice initiated by the English preacher John Wesley (1703–91) and his followers
the price of someone — what someone deserves, esp a fitting punishment
the sky is the limit — If you say the sky is the limit, you mean that there is nothing to prevent someone or something from being very successful.
the sum total of sth — all of something
the ten commandments — the commandments summarizing the basic obligations of man towards God and his fellow men, delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai engraved on two tables of stone (Exodus 20:1–17)
the three musketeers — French Les Trois Mousquetaires. a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.
the-comedy-of-errors — an early comedy (1594) by Shakespeare.
there's no mistaking — You can say there is no mistaking something when you are emphasizing that you cannot fail to recognize or understand it.
thermodynamic system — a system whose states of equilibrium can be specified by a few macroscopic properties.
this time, for sure! — (exclamation) Ritual affirmation frequently uttered during protracted debugging sessions involving numerous small obstacles (e.g. attempts to bring up a UUCP connection). For the proper effect, this must be uttered in a fruity imitation of Bullwinkle J. Moose. Also heard: "Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!" The canonical response is, of course, "But that trick *never* works!" See hacker humour.
thomas of erceldoune — Thomas of, Thomas of Erceldoune.
three-dimensionality — having, or seeming to have, the dimension of depth as well as width and height.
to be a one-man show — to be reliant on one person alone
to give someone hell — If you say that someone gives you hell, you are emphasizing that they shout at you very angrily because of something you have done wrong.
to overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
to weather the storm — If someone weathers the storm, they succeed in reaching the end of a very difficult period without much harm or damage.
tomb of the unknowns — See under Unknown Soldier.

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