15-letter words containing c, h, e, r, m, o
- human resources — (used with a plural verb) people, especially the personnel employed by a given company, institution, or the like.
- hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
- hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
- hydromechanical — Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hyperdemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- hypersomnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
- immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
- inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
- incomprehension — lack of comprehension or understanding: The audience listened politely but with incomprehension.
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- karaoke machine — a device that plays a prerecorded backing tape, to which people take it in turns to sing
- keratoacanthoma — (pathology) A common low-grade malignancy of the skin.
- lzh compression — (algorithm) (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
- macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
- make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
- marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
- mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
- mechanoreceptor — any of the sense organs that respond to vibration, stretching, pressure, or other mechanical stimuli.
- mechlorethamine — a nitrogen mustard, C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, used in combination with other drugs in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and certain other cancers.
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- metamorphically — In a metamorphic manner.
- methyl chloride — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Cl, used chiefly as a refrigerant, as a local anesthetic, and as a methylating agent in organic synthesis.
- microaerophiles — Plural form of microaerophile.
- microaerophilic — Of, or relating to a microaerophile.
- microearthquake — an earthquake of very low intensity (magnitude of 2 or less on the Richter scale).
- microphotometer — a photometer adapted for measuring the intensity of light emitted, transmitted, or reflected by minute objects.
- microphotometry — the use of microphotometers to measure the intensity of light transmitted or reflected by very small areas
- microtechnology — technology that uses microelectronics
- miscomprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of miscomprehend.
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- monosaccharides — Plural form of monosaccharide.
- morphine addict — a person who is addicted to the drug morphine
- morphophonemics — Also called morphonology, morphophonology. the study of the relations between morphemes and their phonological realizations, components, or mappings.
- mourners' bench — a front row of seats at a revival meeting, for those who are to profess penitence
- neurochemically — In a neurochemical manner or context.
- nonmetaphorical — not metaphorical; literal
- orange chromide — an Asian cichlid fish, Etropus maculatus, with a brownish-orange spotted body
- overachievement — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- pharmacotherapy — the treatment of disease through the administration of drugs.
- phloem necrosis — a disease of the American elm caused by a mycoplasmalike organism, characterized by yellowing and necrosis of the foliage and yellowish-brown discoloration of the phloem.
- photomicroscope — a microscope having an illuminator and a camera mechanism for producing a photomicrograph.
- physical memory — (memory management) The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
- posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
- power macintosh — Power Mac
- proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
- psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- radiochemically — by radiochemical means or methods; from a radiochemical perspective
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).