15-letter words containing a, p, l, m, e
- hemel hempstead — a town in W Hertfordshire, in SE England.
- hip replacement — a surgical procedure involving replacing the hip joint with an artificial implant
- homeopathically — By means of homeopathy.
- hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
- hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
- hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hyperlipidaemia — Alternative spelling of hyperlipidemia.
- hyperlipoidemia — An abnormally high level of lipoids in the blood.
- hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
- hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
- hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
- 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.
- impenetrability — the state or quality of being impenetrable.
- imperial bushel — a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel) and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel) Abbreviation: bu., bush.
- imperial gallon — a British gallon used in liquid and dry measurement equivalent to 1.2 U.S. gallons, or 4.54 liters.
- imperial system — a system of measurement units, including the foot, pound, and second, as well as miles and yards
- imperial valley — an irrigated agricultural region in SE California, adjacent to Mexico, formerly a part of the Colorado Desert: it is largely below sea level and contains the Salton Sink.
- imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperviableness — the state of being imperviable
- implausibleness — The quality of being implausible.
- implementations — Plural form of implementation.
- implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- impregnableness — The state of being impregnable; impregnability.
- imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
- instalment plan — agreed series of repayments
- interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
- isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
- juvenal plumage — the first plumage of birds, composed of contour feathers, which in certain species follows the naked nestling stage and in other species follows the molt of natal down.
- kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
- kernmantel rope — a rope made of many straight nylon fibres within a plaited sheath; used for its tensile strength, freedom from twisting, and elasticity
- kilovolt-ampere — an electrical unit, equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Abbreviation: kVA, kva.
- lambda particle — any of a family of neutral baryons with strangeness −1 or charm +1, and isotopic spin 0. The least massive member of the lambda family was the first strange particle to be discovered. Symbol: Λ.
- lamp-post error — fencepost error
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
- laptop computer — portable computer
- leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- 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.
- liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
- lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
- long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
- lumbar puncture — Medicine/Medical. puncture into the arachnoid membrane of the spinal cord, in the lumbar region, and withdrawal of spinal fluid, performed for diagnosis of the fluid, injection of dye for imaging, or administration of anesthesia or medication.
- 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.