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14-letter words containing s, h, e, r, m

  • south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • southern yemen — a former name of Yemen (def 1).
  • spearfisherman — a person who engages in spearfishing.
  • speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
  • spermatorrhoea — abnormally frequent and involuntary nonorgasmic emission of semen.
  • spermatothecae — a female reproductive organ in some insects
  • sphaeristerium — an ancient Roman handball court.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • stealth bomber — a type of US military aircraft using advanced technology to render it virtually undetectable to sight, radar, or infrared sensors
  • stereochemical — of, relating to, stereochemistry
  • stoichiometric — of or relating to stoichiometry.
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • summer clothes — light clothes which are suitable for summer
  • summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
  • summer theater — a theater that operates during the summer, especially in a suburban or resort area, usually offering a different play or musical comedy each week.
  • surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
  • swimmer's itch — an inflammation of the skin, resembling insect bites, caused by burrowing larval forms of schistosomes.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • syrian hamster — golden hamster.
  • systems theory — an approach to industrial relations which likens the enterprise to an organism with interdependent parts, each with its own specific function and interrelated responsibilities
  • tam-o'-shanter — a cap of Scottish origin, usually made of wool, having a round, flat top that projects all around the head and has a pompon at its center.
  • tetrachotomous — divided into four parts
  • the kama sutra — an ancient Hindu text on erotic pleasure and other topics
  • the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
  • the rheumatics — rheumatic pains
  • the samaritans — a voluntary organization which offers counselling to people in despair, esp by telephone
  • the surinamese — the people of Surinam collectively
  • the worm turns — If you say that the worm turns, you mean that someone who usually obeys another person or accepts their bad behaviour unexpectedly starts resisting that person or expresses their anger.
  • theriomorphism — the identification of animal characteristics with a supernatural being
  • thermaesthesia — ability to perceive or sense cold or heat; sensitiveness to heat.
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thermal stress — Thermal stress is stress caused by differences in temperature or by differences in thermal expansion.
  • thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • thermochromism — a phenomenon in which certain dyes made from liquid crystals change colour reversibly when their temperature is changed
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thesaurismosis — storage disease.
  • thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
  • thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thorium series — the radioactive series that starts with thorium and ends with a stable isotope of lead of mass number 208.
  • to strike home — If something that is thrown or fired strikes home, it reaches its target.
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
  • tymshare, inc. — (company)   The US company that created the TYMNET network.
  • underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
  • vitreous humor — the transparent gelatinous substance filling the eyeball behind the crystalline lens.
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