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

  • 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).
  • 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.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • limited partner — special partner.
  • linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
  • lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
  • lymphadenopathy — chronically swollen lymph nodes.
  • mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • magna cum laude — with great praise: used in diplomas to grant the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
  • magnesium oxide — magnesia.
  • magnetic domain — a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned with one another because of interactions between molecules or atoms.
  • magnetic needle — a slender magnetized steel rod that, when adjusted to swing in a horizontal plane, as in a compass, indicates the direction of the earth's magnetic fields or the approximate position of north and south.
  • maid of orléansSaint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • maidenhair fern — any fern of the cosmopolitan genus Adiantum, esp A. capillis-veneris, having delicate fan-shaped fronds with small pale-green leaflets: family Adiantaceae
  • maidenhair tree — ginkgo.
  • maidenhair-tree — ginkgo.
  • maidenhair-vine — wire vine.
  • mailing address — postal or delivery address
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