18-letter words containing s, c, h, m
- swedish gymnastics — a system of passive and active exercising of muscles and joints
- sympathetic strike — sympathy strike.
- sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
- symphony orchestra — a large orchestra composed of wind, string, and percussion instruments and organized to perform symphonic compositions.
- synthetic geometry — elementary geometry, as distinct from analytic geometry.
- systematic phoneme — a phonological unit in generative phonology representing an underlying form that takes into account the relationship between phonological patterns and morphological variation, as the unit underlying the second vowel in both derive and derivative.
- the dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
- the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
- the uncircumcision — the gentiles
- thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
- to come unstitched — to go wrong or awry
- to cut the mustard — If someone does not cut the mustard, their work or their performance is not as good as it should be or as good as it is expected to be.
- two-chamber system — the system of having two parliamentary chambers, as the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the United Kingdom
- vermilion rockfish — a scarlet-red rockfish, Sebastes miniatus, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America, important as a food fish.
- what has become of — If you wonder what has become of someone or something, you wonder where they are and what has happened to them.
- whittaker chambers — Robert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.
- world championship — an international competition in a particular sport or activity for people all around the world