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16-letter words containing r, h, a, m

  • spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
  • spring ephemeral — any of various woodland wildflowers that appear above ground in early spring, flower and fruit, and die in a short two-month period.
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • submarine chaser — a small patrol vessel, 100–200 feet (30–60 meters) long, designed for military operations against submarines.
  • sulfarsphenamine — a yellow, water-soluble, arsenic-containing powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 As 2 N 2 Na 2 O 8 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of syphilis.
  • surrogate mother — a person who acts in the place of another person's biological mother.
  • synchronous dram — Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
  • the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
  • the first family — a President's family
  • the marseillaise — the French national anthem. Words and music were composed in 1792 by C. J. Rouget de Lisle as a war song for the Rhine army of revolutionary France
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the tamil tigers — a Sri Lankan Tamil separatist movement founded in the early 1970s that sought to establish an independent Tamil homeland (Tamil Eelam) in northern Sri Lanka; they waged a military campaign until defeated in 2009 by the Sri Lankan army
  • thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
  • thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
  • thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
  • thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
  • thermoanesthesia — thermanesthesia.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • thomas jefferson — Joseph, 1829–1905, U.S. actor.
  • three-ball match — a match among three players each of whom plays a ball.
  • three-card monte — a gambling game in which the players are shown three cards and bet that they can identify one particular card of the three, as stipulated by the dealer, after the cards have been moved around face down by the dealer.
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • tobacco hornworm — the larva of a hawk moth, Manduca sexta, having a hornlike structure at its posterior end and feeding on the leaves of tobacco and other plants of the nightshade family.
  • transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
  • trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
  • trichotillomania — a compulsion to pull out one's hair.
  • triphenylmethane — a colorless, crystalline, solid compound containing three benzene rings, C 19 H 16 , from which many dyes are derived.
  • tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
  • umbilical hernia — a hernia of the umbilicus.
  • under the hammer — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
  • uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
  • unmarried mother — a woman who has a baby while she is not married
  • upper atmosphere — the portion of the atmosphere above the troposphere.
  • urim and thummim — two objects probably used as oracles and carried in the breastplate of the high priest (Exodus 28:30)
  • valet de chambre — valet (def 1).
  • vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
  • walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
  • wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
  • withdrawing room — a room to withdraw or retire to; drawing room.
  • without a murmur — If someone does something without a murmur, they do it without complaining.
  • write home about — a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.
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