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

  • 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.
  • sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
  • 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.
  • 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 aquinasSaint Thomas ("the Angelic Doctor") 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • thomas youngerThomas 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
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
  • ultra-rightism — the beliefs of extremely right-wing political parties or groups
  • unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
  • unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
  • 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
  • xanthomelanous — of or relating to olive-skinned and dark-haired peoples, belonging to the Xanthomelanoi division
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