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14-letter words containing s, c, h, e, m, i

  • schlockmeister — a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.
  • schmidt system — a wide-angle optical system having a concave, spherical mirror whose aberration is neutralized by a correcting lens: often used in special, photographic reflecting telescopes to obtain clear pictures of large areas of the celestial sphere
  • schoolmistress — a woman who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • schumann-heinkErnestine, 1861–1936, U.S. contralto, born in Bohemia.
  • semi-spherical — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
  • semito-hamitic — a former name for the Afro-Asiatic family of languages
  • servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
  • sewing machine — any of various foot-operated or electric machines for sewing or making stitches, ranging from machines with a shuttle for a spool of thread and a needle for sewing garments to industrial machines for sewing leather, book pages together, etc.
  • simple machine — machine (def 3b).
  • soil mechanics — the branch of civil engineering that deals with the mechanical behavior of soil and similar materials when they are compressed or sheared or when liquids flow through them.
  • south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • sowing machine — a machine that scatters seeds on land so that they may grow
  • stereochemical — of, relating to, stereochemistry
  • stoichiometric — of or relating to stoichiometry.
  • 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
  • summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
  • surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
  • swimmer's itch — an inflammation of the skin, resembling insect bites, caused by burrowing larval forms of schistosomes.
  • symphonic poem — a form of tone poem, scored for a symphony orchestra, in which a literary or pictorial “plot” is treated with considerable program detail: originated by Franz Liszt in the mid-19th century and developed especially by Richard Strauss.
  • the mesolithic — the Mesolithic period; Middle Stone Age
  • the omniscient — God
  • the rheumatics — rheumatic pains
  • thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
  • thermochromism — a phenomenon in which certain dyes made from liquid crystals change colour reversibly when their temperature is changed
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • tymshare, inc. — (company)   The US company that created the TYMNET network.
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
  • wave mechanics — a form of quantum mechanics formulated in terms of a wave equation, as the Schrödinger equation.
  • witches'-besom — witches'-broom.
  • witches'-broom — an abnormal, brushlike growth of small thin branches on woody plants, caused especially by fungi, viruses, and mistletoes.
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