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19-letter words containing e, u, h, m

  • hermitian conjugate — adjoint (def 2).
  • high-pressure steam — High-pressure steam is steam which is at or above 75 pounds per square inch gauge pressure.
  • homme moyen sensuel — an average man, with average tastes and appetites
  • hop, step, and jump — triple jump.
  • housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
  • human rights abuses — acts that contravene human rights
  • human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
  • humanist technology — (philosophy)   Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
  • hydropneumatization — utilization of air pressure in the housing of a water turbine to keep the level of water that has been used from rising to interfere with the rotor blades.
  • immunocytochemistry — the detection of chemical components of cells by means of antibodies coupled to substances that can be made visible.
  • immunohistochemical — (biology) Of, pertaining to, or by means of immunohistochemistry, the use of immunological techniques to study the chemistry of tissues.
  • jamaica honeysuckle — a climbing vine, Passiflora laurifolia, of tropical America, having red-spotted white flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide, with a white and violet-colored crown, and edible yellow fruit.
  • jerusalem artichoke — Also called girasol. a sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, having edible, tuberous, underground stems or rootstocks.
  • johannes damascenus — Johannes [joh-han-eez,, -is] /dʒoʊˈhæn iz,, -ɪs/ (Show IPA), John of Damascus, Saint.
  • junior bantamweight — a boxer weighing up to 115 pounds (51.7 kg), between flyweight and bantamweight.
  • junior middleweight — a boxer weighing up to 154 pounds (69.3 kg), between welterweight and middleweight.
  • league championship — the competition to become league champions
  • liouville's theorem — the theorem that every function of a complex variable, bounded and differentiable for all finite values of the variable, is a constant function.
  • lupus erythematosus — any of several autoimmune diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by red, scaly skin patches.
  • luteinizing hormone — LH.
  • machine instruction — (programming)   The smallest element of a machine code program.
  • magnesium hydroxide — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, Mg(OH) 2 , used chiefly in medicine as an antacid and as a laxative.
  • male chauvinist pig — male chauvinist.
  • malice aforethought — a predetermination to commit an unlawful act without just cause or provocation (applied chiefly to cases of first-degree murder).
  • malicious falsehood — a lie told by someone who knows the lie is false or knows it will do harm to the person it is concerning
  • manchester autocode — (language, history)   The predecessor of Mercury Autocode.
  • mary mcleod bethune — Mary McLeod [muh-kloud] /məˈklaʊd/ (Show IPA), 1875–1955, U.S. educator and civil-rights leader.
  • master of foxhounds — the person responsible for the conduct of a fox hunt and to whom all members of the hunt and its staff are responsible. Abbreviation: M.F.H.
  • maximum thermometer — a thermometer designed to show the highest temperature recorded between resettings.
  • membership function — fuzzy subset
  • midnight regulation — a rule or directive approved by the federal government near the end of a president’s term of office
  • miniature schnauzer — one of a German breed of sturdily built terriers resembling a smaller version of the standard schnauzer, having a wiry, pepper-and-salt, black, or black-and-silver coat, a rectangular head, bushy whiskers, and a docked tail, and originally developed as a farm dog but now raised primarily as a pet.
  • minimum thermometer — a thermometer designed to show the lowest temperature recorded between resettings.
  • missouri meerschaum — corncob (def 2).
  • mother-of-thousands — strawberry geranium.
  • mouse-ear chickweed — any of various similar and related plants of the genus Cerastium
  • mucopolysaccharides — Plural form of mucopolysaccharide.
  • muhammadan calendar — Muslim calendar.
  • mulheim an der ruhr — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, near Essen.
  • multinomial theorem — an expression of a power of a sum in terms of powers of the addends, a generalization of the binomial theorem.
  • multiplexor channel — (MPX) mainframe terminology for a slow peripheral device connection, e.g. for a printer, operator console, or card reader.
  • munchausen syndrome — a factitious disorder in which otherwise healthy individuals seek to hospitalize themselves with feigned or self-induced pathology in order to receive surgical or other medical treatment.
  • mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
  • neuropsychodynamics — The theoretical synthesis of neuroscience and psychodynamics.
  • not for much longer — if something will not happen for much longer, it will soon stop happening
  • not worth a crumpet — utterly worthless
  • oriental fruit moth — a moth, Grapholitha molesta, introduced into the U.S. from Asia, the larvae of which infest and feed on the twigs and fruits of peach, plum, and related trees.
  • paumotu archipelago — Tuamotu Archipelago.
  • phacoemulsification — the removal of a cataract by first liquefying the affected lens with ultrasonic vibrations and then extracting it by suction.
  • phakoemulsification — the removal of a cataract by first liquefying the affected lens with ultrasonic vibrations and then extracting it by suction.
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