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15-letter words containing a, m, d, n

  • hearth and home — domestic realm
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • hemadynamometer — An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury.
  • hemodynamically — With regard to hemodynamics.
  • herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
  • hereditarianism — a person who believes that differences between individuals or groups, including moral and intellectual attributes, are predominantly determined by genetic factors (opposed to environmentalist).
  • high and mighty — self-important, arrogant
  • high-and-mighty — haughty; arrogant.
  • holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
  • homing guidance — a method of missile guidance in which internal equipment enables it to steer itself onto the target, as by sensing the target's heat radiation
  • horned screamer — a screamer, Anhima cornuta, of tropical South America, having a long, slender hornlike process projecting from the forehead.
  • how do you mean — If you say 'How do you mean?' to someone, you are asking them to explain or give more details of what they have just said.
  • human condition — mortality
  • humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hydrodynamicist — a specialist in hydrodynamics.
  • hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
  • hydroxycoumarin — (organic compound) Any of several isomeric hydroxy derivatives of coumarin, some of which are the basis of pharmaceuticals.
  • hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
  • hypodorian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from A to A, with the final on D.
  • hypoionian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from G to G, with the final on C.
  • hypolydian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from C to C, with the final on F.
  • identical rhyme — rhyme created by the repetition of a word.
  • identity matrix — a matrix that has 1 in each position on the main diagonal and 0 in all other positions.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • immunodiagnosis — serodiagnosis.
  • immunomodulator — a substance that affects the functioning of the immune system
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
  • inadmissibility — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
  • incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
  • indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
  • indeterminately — not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
  • indetermination — the quality or condition of being indeterminate.
  • indian mulberry — a small tree, Morinda citrifolia, of the madder family, found from India to Australasia, having shiny leaves, white flowers, and fleshy, yellowish fruit, yielding red and yellow dyes.
  • indirect demand — the secondary demand for labour, raw materials, premises etc which arises from the direct demand for goods
  • indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
  • intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
  • intra-abdominal — being within the abdomen.
  • intramyocardial — Into or within the myocardium.
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • lambda-b baryon — a protonlike baryon containing a b quark; a neutral baryon with a mass 11,000 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.1 X 10 -12 seconds.
  • lambda-c baryon — a positively charged baryon with a mean lifetime of approximately 2.1 X 10 -13 seconds.
  • laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
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