14-letter words containing s, m, e, t, h
- cholesteatomas — Plural form of cholesteatoma.
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- chrestomathies — Plural form of chrestomathy.
- christian name — Some people refer to their first names as their Christian names.
- christmas cake — A Christmas cake is a special cake that is eaten at Christmas in Britain and some other countries.
- christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
- christmas rose — an evergreen ranunculaceous plant, Helleborus niger, of S Europe and W Asia, with white or pinkish winter-blooming flowers
- christmas seal — a decorative stamp sold by some charitable organizations during the Christmas season to raise money.
- christmas time — the period around Christmas
- christmas tree — A Christmas tree is a fir tree, or an artificial tree that looks like a fir tree, which people put in their houses at Christmas and decorate with coloured lights and ornaments.
- christmasberry — toyon.
- chromatophores — Plural form of chromatophore.
- chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
- chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
- chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
- cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- composite shot — split screen.
- composite-shot — Also called composite shot. Movies, Television. a type of process photography in which two or more shots are juxtaposed and projected simultaneously on the screen.
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- cosmochemistry — the study of the chemical composition of the celestial bodies
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- demythologised — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologise.
- disenchantment — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
- displenishment — the act of displenishing
- eightsome reel — a Scottish dance for eight people
- electrochemist — A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
- embellishments — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
- emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
- emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
- emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
- english system — the foot-pound-second system of measurement
- enlightenments — Plural form of enlightenment.
- ephemeris time — time that is based on the orbit of the earth around the sun rather than the axial rotation of the earth, one ephemeris second being 1⁄31 556 925.9747 of the tropical year 1900. It was used from 1960 to 1983 as an astronomical timescale but has been replaced by terrestrial dynamical time and barycentric dynamic time
- establishments — Plural form of establishment.
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
- face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
- flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water