11-letter words containing s, e, m, t, r, h
- spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
- spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
- spermophyte — spermatophyte.
- spherometer — an instrument for measuring the curvature of spheres and curved surfaces.
- stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
- stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
- stethometer — an instrument for measuring the expansion of the chest and abdomen during respiration.
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- storm house — a storm cellar.
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
- sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
- tetratheism — the belief that the Christian God is four persons
- thatcherism — the conservative policies, political philosophy, and leadership style of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, characterized especially by monetarism, privatization, and labor union reform.
- the marches — borderlands between England & Scotland and between England & Wales
- the midrash — these commentaries and notes collectively
- the numbers — an illegal lottery in which small bets are placed on the order of certain numbers, usually the last three, in some tabulation of game scores or financial reports published in the daily newspapers
- the slammer — prison
- theatricism — theatricalism.
- thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
- thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
- thermonasty — a nastic movement in response to a temperature change, as occurs in the opening of certain flowers
- thermoscope — a device that indicates a change in temperature, esp one that does not measure the actual temperature
- thermotaxis — Biology. movement of an organism toward or away from a source of heat.
- thirdstream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
- thumbsucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- transmanche — describing the region between Kent and Nord Pas de Calais
- trumpetfish — any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout, as the slender, brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus, inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position.
- truth serum — a drug, as the barbiturate thiopental, that induces in the subject a desire to talk or a state of heightened suggestibility, used in psychotherapy and in interrogation to discover repressed or consciously withheld information.
- tschernosem — chernozem.
- watchmakers — Plural form of watchmaker.
- weathermost — (nautical) Farthest to the windward side.
- weltschmerz — sorrow that one feels and accepts as one's necessary portion in life; sentimental pessimism.
- wharfmaster — a person who manages a wharf
- what's more — in addition
- whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
- whoremaster — someone who consorts with whores; a lecher or pander.
- xerophytism — (botany) The adaptation of plants to habitats where water is scarce.