16-letter words containing s, c, h, m, i
- scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
- schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
- schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
- school committee — (in New Zealand) a parent group selected to support a primary school
- secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
- sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
- shipping company — business that sends goods overseas
- shopping complex — a shopping centre
- simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
- smack in the eye — a snub or setback
- something fierce — desperately, intensely
- sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
- sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
- spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
- spanish moroccan — of or relating to the former Spanish colony of Spanish Morocco (now part of Morocco) or its inhabitants
- spanish-american — noting or pertaining to the parts of America where Spanish is the prevailing language.
- spectrochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical analysis of substances by means of the spectra of light they absorb or emit.
- spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
- speech community — the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
- spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
- steamboat gothic — a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
- 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.
- stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
- stomach stapling — Stomach stapling is an operation in which part of the stomach is removed in order to help a person to eat less and lose weight.
- stomach-churning — causing nausea.
- submarine chaser — a small patrol vessel, 100–200 feet (30–60 meters) long, designed for military operations against submarines.
- summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
- 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.
- system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
- 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 morn's nicht — tomorrow night
- thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
- unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
- uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- whatchamacallits — Plural form of whatchamacallit.
- when it comes to — with regard to