14-letter words containing h, a, n
- money-changing — the business or act of exchanging currency, usually of different countries, esp. at a set rate
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
- monolithically — of or relating to a monolith.
- mononeuropathy — A neuropathy that affects only a single nerve (as distinguished from polyneuropathy).
- monophonically — In a monophonic manner.
- monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
- monotheletical — like a monothelete
- montreal north — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, N of Montreal.
- morphinomaniac — a person with an uncontrollable addiction to morphine
- motor mechanic — a mechanic who maintains and repairs cars and other road vehicles
- mountain chain — a series of ranges of mountains
- mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
- mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- mowing machine — a machine for mowing or cutting down grass, grain, etc.
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- myelencephalon — the posterior section of the hindbrain comprising the medulla oblongata.
- nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
- name and shame — If something such as a newspaper or an official body names and shames people who have performed badly or who have done something wrong, it identifies those people by name.
- nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
- nanotechnology — a technology executed on the scale of less than 100 nanometers, the goal of which is to control individual atoms and molecules, especially to create computer chips and other microscopic devices.
- napa (leather) — nappa (leather)
- naphthoquinone — (organic compound) Either of two isomers of polycyclic aromatic ketones derived from naphthalene.
- naphthyl group — Also called alpha-naphthyl group, alpha-naphthyl radical. the univalent group C 1 0 H 7 –, having a replaceable hydrogen atom in the first, or alpha, position; 1-naphthyl group.
- narcocatharsis — a technique in narcoanalysis in which the patient is encouraged to reveal suppressed emotions or memories with the aid of narcotic drugs
- narcosynthesis — a treatment for psychiatric disturbances that uses narcotics.
- nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
- natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- naval hospital — a hospital that provides treatment for people in the Navy
- neanderthaloid — resembling or characteristic of the physical type of Neanderthal man.
- nebuchadnezzar — Also, Nebuchadrezzar [neb-uh-kuh d-rez-er, neb-yoo-] /ˌnɛb ə kədˈrɛz ər, ˌnɛb yʊ-/ (Show IPA). a king of Babylonia, 604?–561? b.c., and conqueror of Jerusalem. II Kings 24, 25.
- neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
- neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
- neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
- new haven stem — a straight stem for flatbottomed boats in which the ends of the side planking are mitered and covered with a sheet of metal, the stem piece being wholly inside.
- new netherland — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
- news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
- news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
- nicotine patch — plaster to quit smoking
- nietzscheanism — the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.
- night watchman — watchman.
- nihilistically — of or believing in nihilism, or the total rejection of established laws and institutions: An exhibition of nihilistic art—now there's an oxymoron!
- nineteenth man — the first reserve in a team
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- no matter what — whatever