16-letter words containing a, s, h, m, e

man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
man-eating shark — any shark known to attack humans, especially the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
mandarin chinese — the official language of China since 1917; the form of Chinese spoken by about two thirds of the population and taught in schools throughout China
manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
maremma sheepdog — a large strongly-built sheepdog of a breed with a long, slightly wavy, white coat
marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
matrix mechanics — a formulation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics in which physical quantities are represented by matrices and matrix algebra is used to predict the outcome of physical measurements.
matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
matthew of paris — c1200–59, English chronicler.
mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
mcnaughten rules — (in English law) a set of rules established by the case of Regina v. McNaughten (1843) by which legal proof of insanity in the commission of a crime depends upon whether or not the accused can show either that he did not know what he was doing or that he is incapable of realizing that what he was doing was wrong
mechanochemistry — the field of chemistry that deals with the direct conversion of chemical into mechanical energy.
mechanoreceptors — Plural form of mechanoreceptor.
medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
medullary sheath — Botany. a narrow zone made up of the innermost layer of woody tissue immediately surrounding the pith in plants.
merchant service — A merchant service is a provider of credit card processing services.
mesembryanthemum — any of various chiefly Old World plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having thick, fleshy leaves and often showy flowers.
metamorphosising — Present participle of metamorphosise.
methamphetamines — Methamphetamine.
mexican hairless — one of a breed of small dogs having no hair except for a tuft on the top of the head and a little fuzz on the lower part of the tail.
michaelmas daisy — an aster.
misapprehensions — Plural form of misapprehension.
missile launcher — system that fires missiles
mit lisp machine — Lisp Machine
monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
morera's theorem — the theorem that a function is analytic in a simply connected domain if its integral is zero around every simple closed curve of finite length in the domain.
mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
mount erymanthus — a mountain in SW Greece, in the NW Peloponnese. Height: 2224 m (7297 ft)
mover and shaker — a person who has power and influence, esp., a member of a group having power and influence
muddleheadedness — The state of being muddle-headed.
muddy the waters — If someone or something muddies the waters, they cause a situation or issue to seem less clear and less easy to understand.
munching squares — A display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca. 1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T - see HAKMEM items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen. The initial value of T is treated as a parameter, which, when well-chosen, can produce amazing effects. Some of these, later (re)discovered on the LISP Machine, have been christened "munching triangles" (try AND for XOR and toggling points instead of plotting them), "munching w's", and "munching mazes". More generally, suppose a graphics program produces an impressive and ever-changing display of some basic form, foo, on a display terminal, and does it using a relatively simple program; then the program (or the resulting display) is likely to be referred to as "munching foos". [This is a good example of the use of the word foo as a metasyntactic variable.]
nash equilibrium — (in game theory) a stable state of a system involving the interaction of two or more players in which no player can gain by a unilateral change of strategy if the strategies of the other players remain unchanged
new smyrna beach — a town in NE Florida.
non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
north massapequa — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
north vietnamese — relating to North Vietnam or its people
northamptonshire — a county in central England. 914 sq. mi. (2365 sq. km).
ohmic resistance — resistance (def 3a).
on her beam-ends — (of a vessel) heeled over through an angle of 90°
on the beam-ends — tipping so far to the side as to be in danger of capsizing
on the same page — one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
one and the same — When two or more people or things are thought to be separate and you say that they are one and the same, you mean that they are in fact one single person or thing.
ophthalmoparesis — (medicine) A partial or complete paralysis of the extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.
orthosympathetic — Of or pertaining to the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system.
over the transom — by unsolicited submission, as to a publisher
palmerston north — a city in New Zealand, in the S North Island on the Manawatu River. Pop: 78 100 (2004 est)
pascal's theorem — the theorem that the lines joining adjacent vertices of a hexagon intersect the same straight line if alternate vertices lie on two intersecting straight lines.
pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium

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