16-letter words containing m, u, s, t, h
- muskegon heights — a city in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- north massapequa — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- orthodox judaism — Judaism as observed by Orthodox Jews.
- over-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
- phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
- photoluminescent — luminescence induced by the absorption of infrared radiation, visible light, or ultraviolet radiation.
- presumptive heir — heir presumptive.
- prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
- research quantum — the standard by which the contribution to a university of individual academics is measured and on the basis of which universities receive government funding and academics are promoted
- rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- saint-ulmo-light — St. Elmo's fire.
- sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- settlement house — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- settlement-house — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- show-me attitude — a sceptical frame of mind
- shuttle armature — a simple H-shaped armature used in small direct-current motors
- shuttle movement — the movement of a component from one place to another and back to its original position
- sodium methylate — a white, free-flowing, flammable powder, CH 3 ONa, decomposed by water to sodium hydroxide and methyl alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
- sodium phosphate — Also called monobasic sodium phosphate. a white, crystalline, slightly hygroscopic, water-soluble powder, NaH 2 PO 4 , used chiefly in dyeing and in electroplating.
- south vietnamese — of or relating to the former South Vietnam (now part of Vietnam) or its inhabitants
- speech community — the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
- stick in the mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
- stick-in-the-mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
- stomach-churning — causing nausea.
- sulfamethoxazole — an antimicrobial substance, C 1 0 H 1 1 N 3 O 3 S, used against a variety of susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms, as in the treatment of certain urinary tract infections and skin infections.
- summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
- summation method — a method for associating a sum with a divergent series.
- summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
- surrogate mother — a person who acts in the place of another person's biological mother.
- swash plate pump — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and imparts reciprocating motion to push rods parallel to the shaft axis
- synthetic cubism — the late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and material into painting.
- thallium sulfate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, Tl 2 SO 4 , used chiefly as an insecticide and rodenticide.
- thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- three musketeers — French Les Trois Mousquetaires. a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.
- through-composed — having different music for each verse: a through-composed song. Compare strophic (def 2).
- thumb one's nose — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- tibetan buddhism — the form of Mahayana Buddhism that developed and is practiced primarily in Tibet and some nearby nations: its spiritual leader is the Dalai Lama
- tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
- two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
- under sb's thumb — If you are under someone's thumb, you are under their control, or very heavily influenced by them.
- undernourishment — If someone is suffering from undernourishment, they have poor health because they are not eating enough food or are eating the wrong kind of food.
- upper atmosphere — the portion of the atmosphere above the troposphere.