21-letter words containing h, a, m, i
- death by misadventure — a possible verdict in a coroner's court, indicating that death was due to an accident not to a crimes or somebody's negligence
- decompression chamber — a chamber in which the pressure of air can be varied slowly for returning people from abnormal pressures to atmospheric pressure without inducing decompression sickness
- denominational school — a school associated with a particular religious denomination
- diapason normal pitch — a standard of pitch in which A above middle C is established at 435 vibrations per second.
- disestablishmentarian — a person who favors the separation of church and state, especially the withdrawal of special rights, status, and support granted an established church by a state; an advocate of disestablishing a state church.
- do/did you hear (me)? — If you say 'Do you hear?' or 'Did you hear me?' to someone, you are telling them in an angry or forceful way to pay attention to what you are saying.
- dynamic data exchange — (language) (DDE, originally Dynamic Data Linking, DDL) A Microsoft Windows 3 hotlink protocol that allows application programs to communicate using a client-server model. Whenever the server (or "publisher") modifies part of a document which is being shared via DDE, one or more clients ("subscribers") are informed and include the modification in the copy of the data on which they are working.
- earthmoving equipment — machines, such as bulldozers, that are used for excavating and moving large quantities of earth
- eastern daylight time — a time zone applicable to many eastern areas of the United States during the summer months, being a daylight-saving variant of Eastern Standard Time
- electromyographically — By means of, or in terms of, electromyography.
- embarras de richesses — a superfluous abundance of options, from which one finds it difficult to select
- enharmonic modulation — a change of key achieved by regarding a note in one key as an equivalent note in another. Thus E flat in the key of A flat could be regarded as D sharp in the key of B major
- epidemic encephalitis — any type of widespread encephalitis caused by various viruses
- foot-in-mouth disease — the habit of making inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent statements.
- frankfort on the main — a city in W central Germany, on the Main River.
- fuming sulphuric acid — a mixture of pyrosulphuric acid, H2S2O7, and other condensed acids, made by dissolving sulphur trioxide in concentrated sulphuric acid
- gastrohepatic omentum — lesser omentum.
- general of the armies — a special rank held by John J. Pershing, equivalent to general of the army.
- get in someone's hair — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- give someone his head — to allow a person greater freedom or responsibility
- give someone the gate — a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
- gram-molecular weight — gram molecule. Abbreviation: GMW.
- ground-effect machine — ACV (def 2).
- happy little vegemite — a person who is in good humour
- have it coming to one — to deserve what one is about to suffer
- highest common factor — greatest common divisor. Abbreviation: H.C.F.
- hindu-arabic numerals — Arabic numeral.
- home improvement loan — a government loan for house improvements such as insulation, adding a bathroom, or urgent repairs
- homogeneous catalysis — Homogeneous catalysis is catalysis in which the catalyst takes part in the reaction that it increases.
- hop, skip, and a jump — a short distance: The laundry is just a hop, skip, and a jump away.
- host command facility — (operating system) (HCF) Used to access IBM S/36 and AS/400 computers from a mainframe.
- human papilloma virus — a species of virus that causes genital warts. Abbreviation: HPV.
- human rights activist — a person who campaigns for human rights
- humanistic psychology — an approach to psychology that emphasizes emotions and the better understanding of the self in terms of observation of oneself and one's relations with others
- hydraulic accumulator — an apparatus in which gas, usually air, is used as a cushion or shock absorber in a hydraulic system.
- hypercholesterolaemia — the condition of having a high concentration of cholesterol in the blood
- hyperlipoproteinaemia — the condition of having an abnormally high level of lipoproteins in the blood
- hypogammaglobulinemia — A type of immune disorder characterised by a reduction in all types of gamma globulins.
- ilya ilyich mechnikov — Élie [French ey-lee] /French eɪˈli/ (Show IPA), (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov) 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.
- immunohistochemically — By means of or in regard to immunohistochemistry.
- in more ways than one — You say in more ways than one to indicate that what you have said is intended to have more than one meaning.
- information gathering — the process of collecting information about something
- irish republican army — an underground Irish nationalist organization founded to work for Irish independence from Great Britain: declared illegal by the Irish government in 1936, but continues activity aimed at the unification of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Abbreviation: IRA, I.R.A.
- joseph-marie jacquard — (person) /zhoh-zef' mah-ree' zhah-kar'/ (1752-07-07 to 1834-08-07) The inventor of the Jacquard loom.
- knights of st columba — an international, semi-secret fraternal and charitable order for Catholic laymen, which originated in New Haven, Connecticut in 1882 (the Knights of Columbus)
- lady murasaki shikibu — Lady, 978?–1031? Japanese poet and novelist.
- lady of the camellias — French La Dame aux Camélias. a novel (1848) and play (1852) by Alexandre Dumas fils.
- lambeth quadrilateral — the four essentials agreed upon at the Lambeth Conference of 1888 for a United Christian Church, namely, the Holy Scriptures, the Apostles' Creed, the sacraments of baptism and Holy Communion, and the historic episcopate
- law of thermodynamics — any of three principles variously stated in equivalent forms, being the principle that the change of energy of a thermodynamic system is equal to the heat transferred minus the work done (first law of thermodynamics) the principle that no cyclic process is possible in which heat is absorbed from a reservoir at a single temperature and converted completely into mechanical work (second law of thermodynamics) and the principle that it is impossible to reduce the temperature of a system to absolute zero in a finite number of operations (third law of thermodynamics)
- light armored vehicle — an eight-wheeled armored reconnaissance car with a 25mm cannon, in service with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps in the 1980s.