11-letter words containing s, h, a, m
- speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
- sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
- 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.
- sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
- sphygmogram — a tracing or diagram produced by a sphygmograph.
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- steam ahead — If an economy or company steams ahead, it becomes stronger and more successful.
- steam chest — the chamber from which steam enters the cylinder of an engine.
- steam-chest — the chamber from which steam enters the cylinder of an engine.
- stomachache — pain in the stomach or abdomen; colic.
- stomachless — lacking or not having a stomach
- storm watch — watch (def 20).
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- sympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- sympathique — pleasing or congenial
- sympathizer — a person who sympathizes.
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
- taphonomist — a specialist in taphonomy
- tetratheism — the belief that the Christian God is four persons
- thalassemia — a hereditary form of anemia, occurring chiefly in people of Mediterranean origin, marked by the abnormal synthesis of hemoglobin and a consequent shortened life span of red blood cells.
- 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 bahamas — a group of over 700 coral islands (about 20 of which are inhabited) in the Caribbean: a British colony from 1783 until 1964; an independent nation within the Commonwealth from 1973. Language: English. Currency: Bahamian dollar. Capital: Nassau. Pop: 319 031 (2013 est). Area: 13 939 sq km (5381 sq miles)
- the marches — borderlands between England & Scotland and between England & Wales
- the midrash — these commentaries and notes collectively
- the same as — If something is happening the same as something else, the two things are happening in a way that is similar or exactly the same.
- the slammer — prison
- theatricism — theatricalism.
- theomachist — a person who battles against the gods or resists the will of the gods
- thermonasty — a nastic movement in response to a temperature change, as occurs in the opening of certain flowers
- thermotaxis — Biology. movement of an organism toward or away from a source of heat.
- thigmotaxis — movement of an organism toward or away from any object that provides a mechanical stimulus.
- 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.
- thomasville — a city in S Georgia.
- thumb glass — a drinking glass having external indentations to allow it to be firmly grasped.
- train smash — a disaster or serious setback (esp in the phrase it's not a train smash)
- transhumant — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
- transmanche — describing the region between Kent and Nord Pas de Calais
- trophoplasm — the cytoplasm that is involved in the nutritive processes of a cell
- ultrasmooth — extremely smooth
- unashamedly — not ashamed; not restrained by embarrassment or consciousness of moral guilt: a liar unashamed even after public disgrace.
- utnapishtim — the favorite of the gods, who survived the great flood and became immortal.
- walthamstow — a former borough, now part of Waltham Forest, in SE England.
- washerwoman — a woman who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundress.
- washerwomen — Plural form of washerwoman.
- watchmakers — Plural form of watchmaker.
- weathermost — (nautical) Farthest to the windward side.