15-letter words containing s, c, h, r, a
- kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
- kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
- laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
- learner's chain — an inexperienced team of slaughtermen working in a freezing works
- lithochromatics — the art or process of painting in oil on stone and taking impressions from the result
- macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
- machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- mahrisch-ostrau — German name of Moravská Ostrava.
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- manasseh cutler — Manasseh, 1742–1823, U.S. Congregational clergyman and scientist: promoted settlement of Ohio; congressman 1801–05.
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- market research — investigation into consumers' needs
- market-research — to conduct market research on.
- masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
- master mechanic — a mechanic, especially one who is thoroughly skilled, in charge of other mechanics.
- measuring chain — a flexible length of metal links used in calculating distances
- mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
- merchant seaman — a seaman who works on a merchant vessel.
- merry christmas — well-wishes for Christmas season
- metatarsal arch — the short lateral arch of the foot formed by the heads of the metatarsal bones.
- michaelmas term — the autumn term at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the Inns of Court, and some other educational establishments
- microaerophiles — Plural form of microaerophile.
- microphysically — in a microphysical manner
- military school — military academy.
- mischaracterize — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
- mishnaic hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 to 500.
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
- morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
- mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
- mushroom anchor — a stockless anchor having a bowlike head, used chiefly for semipermanent moorings.
- natal horoscope — the horoscope based on an individual's birth.
- neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
- nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- non-charismatic — of, having, or characteristic of charisma.
- non-chromosomal — any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order: the human species has 23 pairs, designated 1 to 22 in order of decreasing size and X and Y for the female and male sex chromosomes respectively.
- noncatastrophic — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
- nonpsychiatrist — a person who is not a psychiatrist
- north caucasian — a language family including all the Caucasian languages north of the Caucasian divide, as Kabardian and the Circassian language proper, and a few between the divide and the Black Sea, as Abkhazian.
- nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- on the decrease — decreasing
- on the increase — growing, increasing
- orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
- organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals