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14-letter words containing m, u, s, h

  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • saddam hussein — Also, Hosein, Husain. (al-Husayn) a.d. 629?–680, Arabian caliph, the son of Ali and Fatima and the brother of Hasan.
  • scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • school uniform — standard outfit worn by pupils
  • schumann-heink — Ernestine, 1861–1936, U.S. contralto, born in Bohemia.
  • sense of humor — finding things funny
  • shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
  • showbiz column — a column about the entertainment industry
  • smoker's cough — a chronic cough caused by smoking.
  • 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).
  • sphaeristerium — an ancient Roman handball court.
  • squash-blossom — indicating or pertaining to a design or configuration resembling the flower of the squash plant, especially as found in jewelry made by various American Indians.
  • 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.
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
  • sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
  • sulphonium ion — a positive ion produced by the addition of a proton to the sulphur atom of a thiol or thio-ether
  • 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
  • summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
  • summer theater — a theater that operates during the summer, especially in a suburban or resort area, usually offering a different play or musical comedy each week.
  • surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
  • 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
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • the humanities — the study of literature, philosophy, and the arts
  • the kama sutra — an ancient Hindu text on erotic pleasure and other topics
  • the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
  • the rheumatics — rheumatic pains
  • the surinamese — the people of Surinam collectively
  • 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.
  • thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • 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.
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