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14-letter words containing s, h, c, a, r

  • hunter's sauce — chasseur (def 4).
  • hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
  • hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
  • hyperaesthesic — relating to an extreme capacity for feeling
  • hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hypermicrosoma — dwarfishness.
  • hyperparasitic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hyperparasitism.
  • hyperrealistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • hyperresonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
  • hypersonically — In a hypersonic way.
  • hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
  • hypochondriacs — Plural form of hypochondriac.
  • hypocoristical — (rare) synonym of hypocoristic.
  • iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
  • ichthyolatrous — relating to the worship of fish or divination by means of fish parts
  • ichthyosaurian — (paleontology) Of or relating to the Ichthyosauria.
  • isomorphically — In an isomorphic manner.
  • james h. clark — Dr. James H. Clark
  • japanese larch — a tree, Larix kaempferi, of Japan, having bluish-green leaves and egg-shaped cones.
  • l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
  • lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
  • lease-purchase — the continuing use of property or goods under a lease for a stipulated period with option for the lessee to buy and with part of the rental charges credited toward the purchase price.
  • leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
  • lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • mackerel shark — any of several fierce sharks of the family Lamidae, including the great white shark and the mako.
  • macrocephalous — Having a large head.
  • magic mushroom — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • marasca cherry — the red acid-tasting fruit of the marasca tree, from which maraschino is made
  • marginal hacks — (humour)   Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
  • marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
  • master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
  • metachromatism — change of color, especially that due to variation in the temperature of a body.
  • metaphosphoric — applied to an acid (HPO3) containing a molecule less of water than orthophosphoric acid
  • method actress — an actress who bases her role on the inner motivation of the character she plays, following the theories of Stanislavsky
  • microcephalous — Microcephalic.
  • microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere
  • misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  • mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
  • mister charlie — a term used to refer to a white person.
  • money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
  • monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
  • monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
  • musical chairs — Also called going to Jerusalem. a game in which players march to music around two rows of chairs placed back to back, there being one chair less than the number of players, the object being to find a seat when the music stops abruptly. The player failing to do so is removed from the game, together with one chair, at each interval.
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