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14-letter words containing h, a, m, i

  • human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
  • humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
  • humane studies — educational subjects or courses, or texts, that are, or were historically, considered to have a civilizing influence on those who read or studied them
  • humanistically — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
  • humidification — to make humid.
  • humoristically — In a humoristic way.
  • hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
  • hydraulic ramp — a movable ramp operated by pressure transmitted through a pipe by a liquid
  • hydrodynamical — Hydrodynamic.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydromechanics — hydrodynamics.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hypercalcaemia — a heightened level of calcium in the blood
  • hypercalcaemic — of or relating to hypercalcaemia
  • hyperchromatic — Hyperchromic.
  • hyperemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • hyperglycaemia — an abnormally high level of glucose in the blood.
  • hyperglycaemic — Alternative spelling of hyperglycemic.
  • hyperlipidemia — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; lipemia.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • hypermicrosoma — dwarfishness.
  • hypernatraemia — a heightened concentration of sodium in the blood
  • hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • hyperuricaemia — an abnormal elevation of uric acid in the blood
  • hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
  • hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
  • hypodermically — By hypodermic means.
  • hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
  • hypomixolydian — (in medieval church music) of or relating to the last of the eight scales
  • hypophalangism — the condition of having fewer than the normal number of phalanges per finger or toe.
  • hypopotassemia — hypokalemia.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
  • image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
  • immethodically — Unmethodically.
  • immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
  • impeachability — The state or condition of being impeachable.
  • imperial beach — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • in the name of — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
  • inharmoniously — In an inharmonious way.
  • internal rhyme — a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse.
  • iris diaphragm — a composite diaphragm with a central aperture readily adjustable for size, used to regulate the amount of light admitted to a lens or optical system.
  • isomorphically — In an isomorphic manner.
  • isthmian games — one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held every two years on the Isthmus of Corinth.
  • isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • kidney machine — artificial kidney.
  • knight templar — Templar.
  • lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
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