11-letter words containing s, c, h, e, m, r
- french seam — a seam in which the raw edges of the cloth are completely covered by sewing them together, first on the right side, then on the wrong.
- gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
- hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
- heat cramps — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
- hectometers — Plural form of hectometer.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- hemispheric — of or relating to a hemisphere.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- hermeticism — the body of ideas set forth in Hermetic writings.
- hetaerismic — of or relating to courtesans
- hetairismic — relating to hetairism, concubinage
- heteroecism — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
- hierarchism — hierarchical principles, rule, or influence.
- home screen — television.
- homestretch — the straight part of a racetrack from the last turn to the finish line. Compare backstretch.
- hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- hypermnesic — the condition of having an unusually vivid or precise memory.
- hypodermics — Plural form of hypodermic.
- hypsometric — Of or relating to the use of the hypsometer; hypsographic.
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- jackhammers — Plural form of jackhammer.
- machineries — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- macrophages — Plural form of macrophage.
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- marcheshvan — Heshvan.
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- marsh cress — any cress belonging to the genus Rorippa, of the mustard family, especially R. islandica, that grows in marshy areas in North America and Eurasia.
- matchmakers — Plural form of matchmaker.
- mechitarist — a member of an order of Armenian monks founded in Constantinople in the 18th century and following the rule of St. Benedict.
- meerschaums — Plural form of meerschaum.
- merchandise — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- mesomorphic — pertaining to or having a muscular or sturdy body build characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic mesoderm (contrasted with ectomorphic, endomorphic).
- mesonephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.
- mesospheric — Of or pertaining to the mesosphere.
- mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
- metternichs — Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von [kley-mens ven-tsuh l ney-paw-moo k loh-tahr fuh n,, loh-tahr] /ˈkleɪ mɛns ˈvɛn tsəl ˈneɪ pɔ mʊk ˈloʊ tɑr fən,, loʊˈtɑr/ (Show IPA), 1773–1859, Austrian statesman and diplomat.
- microinches — Plural form of microinch.
- microphages — Plural form of microphage.
- microphones — Plural form of microphone.
- microphytes — Plural form of microphyte.
- microsphere — a very small medical particle, containing a diagnostic or therapeutic agent, that is injected into the blood
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- monochromes — Plural form of monochrome.
- petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.