11-letter words containing t, h, e, r, m, o
- river-mouth — an estuary
- roche limit — the minimum distance below which a moon orbiting a celestial body would be disrupted by tidal forces or below which a moon would not have formed.
- room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
- room mother — a female volunteer, often the mother of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
- route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- short metre — a stanza form, used esp for hymns, consisting of four lines, the third of which has eight syllables, while the rest have six
- short money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Commons to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1975
- short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smooth over — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- solo mother — a mother with a dependent child or dependent children and no spouse
- somersworth — a town in SE New Hampshire.
- somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- spermophyte — spermatophyte.
- spherometer — an instrument for measuring the curvature of spheres and curved surfaces.
- stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
- stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
- stethometer — an instrument for measuring the expansion of the chest and abdomen during respiration.
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- storm house — a storm cellar.
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
- tacheometer — a type of theodolite designed for the rapid measurement of distances, elevations, and directions
- tacheometry — the measurement of distance, etc, using a tacheometer
- tcp theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
- the moer in — furious; enraged
- theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
- theomorphic — having the form or likeness of God or a deity.
- thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
- thermobaric — (of an explosive device or explosion) detonated by means of an explosive substance reacting spontaneously with air
- thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
- thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
- thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
- thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
- thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
- thermometer — an instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube that contains a column of liquid, as mercury, that expands and contracts, or rises and falls, with temperature changes, the temperature being read where the top of the column coincides with a calibrated scale marked on the tube or its frame.
- thermometry — the branch of physics dealing with the measurement of temperature.
- thermomotor — a heat engine.
- thermonasty — a nastic movement in response to a temperature change, as occurs in the opening of certain flowers
- thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
- thermophone — an electroacoustic transducer that forms sound waves by the expansion and contraction of the air adjacent to a conductor that varies in temperature according to the magnitude of the current passing through it; formerly used to calibrate microphones.
- thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
- thermoscope — a device that indicates a change in temperature, esp one that does not measure the actual temperature
- thermotaxis — Biology. movement of an organism toward or away from a source of heat.
- thrombocyte — platelet.