14-letter words containing a, c, o, m
- ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
- geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
- geometric mean — the mean of n positive numbers obtained by taking the n th root of the product of the numbers: The geometric mean of 6 and 24 is 12.
- geometric pace — a modern form of a Roman pace, a measure of length taken as 5 feet
- glycaemic load — an index indicating the amount of carbohydrate contained in a specified serving of a particular food. It is calculated by multiplying the food's glycaemic index by its carbohydrate content in grams and then dividing by 100
- gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
- gooseneck lamp — a desk lamp having a flexible shaft or stem.
- grammar school — an elementary school.
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
- haematological — Alternative spelling of hematological.
- haematopoietic — Of or pertaining to haematopoiesis.
- haemocytometer — an apparatus for counting the number of cells in a quantity of blood, typically consisting of a graduated pipette for drawing and diluting the blood and a ruled glass slide on which the cells are counted under a microscope
- half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.
- hamito-semitic — denoting or belonging to this family of languages
- have a stomack — to be pregnant
- have it coming — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
- hepatectomised — Alt form hepatectomized.
- hepatectomized — That has undergone hepatectomy.
- hermaphroditic — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
- heteroaromatic — a heterocyclic aromatic compound.
- heteroromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.
- hierogrammatic — of or relating to a hierogram
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
- home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
- hors de combat — disabled or injured
- horse mackerel — bluefin tuna.
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humidification — to make humid.
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- hydrodynamical — Hydrodynamic.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hyperchromatic — Hyperchromic.
- hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- hypermicrosoma — dwarfishness.
- hypodermically — By hypodermic means.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
- ibm compatible — (computer) A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes). This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway 2000 and OS vendor Microsoft having taken control of the market, marginalising IBM.
- ice cream cone — a thin, crisp, hollow conical wafer for holding one or more scoops of ice cream.
- ice-cream cone — a thin, crisp, hollow conical wafer for holding one or more scoops of ice cream.
- ice-cream soda — An ice-cream soda is a dessert made from ice cream, fruit-flavoured syrup, and soda water. It is usually served in a tall glass.
- image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
- immethodically — Unmethodically.