14-letter words containing t, h, e, m
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- dermatographia — a common medical condition in which lightly rubbing the skin produces red, often raised, temporary marks
- dermatographic — relating to dermatography
- detention home — a place where juvenile offenders or delinquents are held in custody, esp. temporarily pending disposition of their cases by the juvenile court
- diathermaneity — the quality of being diathermanous
- dimenhydrinate — a synthetic, crystalline, antihistamine powder, C 17 H 22 NO⋅C 7 H 6 ClN 4 O 2 , used in the treatment of allergic disorders and as a preventive for seasickness and airsickness.
- dimethyl ether — Dimethyl ether is a compound used as a propellant in aerosol canisters.
- dimethylketone — acetone.
- 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
- dream merchant — a person, as a moviemaker or advertiser, who panders to or seeks to develop the public's craving for luxury, romance, or escapism.
- dutch medicine — patent medicine, esp made of herbs
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- eightsome reel — a Scottish dance for eight people
- electrochemist — A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
- electrothermal — concerned with both electricity and heat, esp the production of electricity by heat
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- embellishments — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
- empathetically — In an empathetic way.
- emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
- emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
- emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
- enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
- english system — the foot-pound-second system of measurement
- enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
- enlightenments — Plural form of enlightenment.
- ephemeral port — (networking) A TCP or UDP port number that is automatically allocated from a predefined range by the TCP/IP stack software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a client-server communication.
- 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
- ephemeropteran — of or relating to the Ephemeroptera
- establishments — Plural form of establishment.
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
- 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.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- 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.
- fete champetre — an outdoor festival or a garden party.
- fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
- fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- 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.