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18-letter words containing s, h, a, m

  • something to spare — a surplus of something
  • southampton island — an island in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories at the entrance to Hudson Bay. 19,100 sq. mi. (49,470 sq. km).
  • southern cameroons — German Kamerun. a region in W Africa: a German protectorate 1884–1919; divided in 1919 into British and French mandates.
  • spherical geometry — the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.
  • status asthmaticus — a severe attack of asthma in which the patient may die from respiratory failure if not treated with inhaled oxygen or other appropriate measures
  • stem-cell research — research that is carried out on stem cells for use in medicine
  • stinking chamomile — mayweed.
  • stoichiometrically — of or relating to stoichiometry.
  • stokely carmichael — Hoagland Howard [hohg-luh nd] /ˈhoʊg lənd/ (Show IPA), ("Hoagy") 1899–1981, U.S. songwriter and musician.
  • stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • tan someone's hide — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
  • temporary hardness — hardness of water due to the presence of magnesium and calcium hydrogencarbonates, which can be precipitated as carbonates by boiling
  • the damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
  • 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 lords temporal — (in Britain) peers other than bishops in their capacity as members of the House of Lords
  • the magnolia state — a nickname referring to Mississippi
  • the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
  • the middle passage — the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas
  • the mosque of omar — the mosque in Jerusalem, Israel, built in 691 ad by caliph 'Abd al-Malik: the third most holy place of Islam; stands on the Temple Mount alongside the al-Aqsa mosque
  • the mountain state — a nickname referring to West Virginia
  • the palmetto state — a nickname for South Carolina
  • the same old story — the familiar or regular course of events
  • the welsh assembly — the elected assembly for Wales, based in Cardiff, that has certain powers devolved from the UK government
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • thomas alva edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
  • 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.
  • to raise the alarm — If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
  • transmission shaft — a shaft that rotates transmitting motion from the engine to the differential gear
  • two-chamber system — the system of having two parliamentary chambers, as the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the United Kingdom
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • wesleyan methodist — a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.
  • 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.
  • white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
  • whittaker chambers — Robert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.
  • withdrawal symptom — effects of stopping a drug
  • woman of the house — lady of the house.
  • world championship — an international competition in a particular sport or activity for people all around the world
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