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16-letter words containing a, d, e, m

  • have a hard time — experience difficulties
  • head arrangement — a roughly outlined musical arrangement that is played from memory and is often learned by ear.
  • head normal form — (theory, reduction)   (HNF) A term describing a lambda expression whose top level is either a variable, a data value, a built-in function applied to too few arguments, or a lambda abstraction whose body is not reducible. I.e. the top level is neither a redex nor a lambda abstraction with a reducible body. An expression in HNF may contain redexes in argument postions whereas a normal form may not. Compare Weak Head Normal Form.
  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • headmistressship — (rare) Alternative form of headmistress-ship.
  • hearing-impaired — having reduced or deficient hearing ability; hard-of-hearing: special programs for hearing-impaired persons.
  • hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • himachal pradesh — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
  • hodmezovasarhely — a city in SE Hungary.
  • home health aide — a worker, usually trained and state-certified, who provides care for elderly, sick, or disabled people in their own home.
  • homme d'affaires — a businessman.
  • hookworm disease — any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
  • housemaid's knee — inflammation of the bursa over the front of the kneecap.
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • hyaloid membrane — the delicate, pellucid, and nearly structureless membrane enclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
  • hydrated alumina — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 3 or Al 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
  • hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
  • hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • hyperlipoidaemia — Alt form hyperlipoidemia.
  • hypoaeolian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E, with the final on A.
  • immediate family — parents, siblings, children
  • immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • implied warranty — a warranty not stated explicitly by the seller of merchandise or real property but presumed for reasons of commercial or legal custom (distinguished from express warranty).
  • incidental music — music intended primarily to point up or accompany parts of the action of a play or to serve as transitional material between scenes.
  • indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
  • indian meal moth — a small pyralid moth, Plodia interpunctella, whose larvae are an important pest of stored cereals.
  • indirect primary — a primary in which members of a party elect delegates to a party convention that in turn elects the party's candidates.
  • indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
  • indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
  • infinite decimal — nonterminating decimal.
  • information desk — helpdesk, information point
  • interdimensional — Between dimensions.
  • interlaced image — progressive coding
  • intermediateness — The condition of being intermediate.
  • intradermal test — a test for immunity or allergy to a particular antigen by observing the local reaction following injection of a small amount of the antigen into the skin.
  • irremediableness — The state or quality of being irremediable.
  • j. random hacker — (jargon)   /J rand'm hak'r/ MIT jargon for a mythical figure; the archetypal hacker nerd. This may originally have been inspired by "J. Fred Muggs", a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days of TMRC, and was probably influenced by J. Presper Eckert (one of the co-inventors of the electronic computer). See random, Suzie COBOL.
  • judas maccabaeus — Judas or Judah [joo-duh] /ˈdʒu də/ (Show IPA), ("the Hammer") died c. 160 b.c, Judean patriot, one of the Maccabees: military leader 166–160 (son of Mattathias).
  • kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
  • kiss and make up — be reconciled
  • land-poor farmer — a farmer who owns much unprofitable land and lacks the money to maintain its fertility or improve it
  • landed immigrant — foreigner: permanent resident
  • laodicea ad mare — the chief port of Syria, in the northwest: tobacco industry. Pop: 486 000 (2005 est) (Latin name)
  • lay intermediary — a layperson who is interposed between a lawyer and client to prevent the existence of a direct relationship between them.
  • leasehold reform — reform of the law relating to leasehold property
  • legal department — the department that deals with legal matters
  • liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
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