15-letter words containing s, h, m, a, t
- self-banishment — to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile: He was banished to Devil's Island.
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- serum hepatitis — hepatitis B.
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
- shemini atseres — the festival which follows upon Sukkoth on Tishri 22 (and 23 outside Israel), and includes Simchat Torah
- ship's manifest — a list of the shipments or cargo that a vessel is carrying
- shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
- shot in the arm — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
- sixth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing the right to a trial by jury in criminal cases.
- smallmouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus dolomieu, yellowish-green above and lighter below, having the lower jaw extending to the eye.
- socratic method — the use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition.
- sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
- sodium ethylate — a white, hygroscopic powder, C 2 H 5 ONa, that is decomposed by water into sodium hydroxide and alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
- soft-shell clam — an edible clam, Mya arenaria, inhabiting waters along both coasts of North America, having an oval, relatively thin, whitish shell.
- software method — Software Methodology
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- south glamorgan — a county in SE Wales. 161 sq. mi. (416 sq. km).
- south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
- spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
- spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
- start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
- stigmatophilist — a person who has stigmatophilia
- straight matter — the body text of an article, story, etc., as distinguished from the title, subhead, and other display matter.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- sumatra camphor — borneol.
- swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
- sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
- the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
- the first-named — something that is specified or named first
- the last moment — If someone does something at the last moment, they do it at the latest time possible.
- the midas touch — ability to make money
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- the santa maria — the flagship of Columbus on his first voyage to America (1492)
- the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
- the smart money — If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.
- the square mile — the area in central London in which the United Kingdom's major financial business is transacted
- the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
- theory of games — game theory.
- thermanesthesia — loss of ability to feel cold or heat; loss of the sense or feeling of temperature.
- thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
- tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
- to err is human — If you say that to err is human, you mean that it is natural for human beings to make mistakes.