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16-letter words containing h, e, a, d, m

  • drumhead cabbage — acommon type of cabbage with tightly packed leaves and a rounded form with a slightly flattened top
  • drumhead service — a religious service attended by members of a military unit while in the field
  • duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
  • enriched uranium — uranium in which the proportion of the fissile isotope U-235 has been increased to make it more fissile
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • femme de chambre — a chambermaid
  • fisherman's bend — a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.
  • flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
  • fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
  • full steam ahead — If something such as a plan or a project goes full steam ahead, it progresses quickly.
  • give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
  • gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
  • haemodynamically — from a hemodynamic point of view
  • hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
  • hamming distance — (data)   The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
  • hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
  • hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
  • have a good time — enjoy yourself, have fun
  • have a hard time — experience difficulties
  • head arrangement — a roughly outlined musical arrangement that is played from memory and is often learned by ear.
  • head normal form — (theory, reduction)   (HNF) A term describing a lambda expression whose top level is either a variable, a data value, a built-in function applied to too few arguments, or a lambda abstraction whose body is not reducible. I.e. the top level is neither a redex nor a lambda abstraction with a reducible body. An expression in HNF may contain redexes in argument postions whereas a normal form may not. Compare Weak Head Normal Form.
  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • headmistressship — (rare) Alternative form of headmistress-ship.
  • hearing-impaired — having reduced or deficient hearing ability; hard-of-hearing: special programs for hearing-impaired persons.
  • hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • himachal pradesh — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
  • hodmezovasarhely — a city in SE Hungary.
  • home health aide — a worker, usually trained and state-certified, who provides care for elderly, sick, or disabled people in their own home.
  • homme d'affaires — a businessman.
  • hookworm disease — any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
  • housemaid's knee — inflammation of the bursa over the front of the kneecap.
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • hyaloid membrane — the delicate, pellucid, and nearly structureless membrane enclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
  • hydrated alumina — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 3 or Al 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
  • hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
  • hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • hyperlipoidaemia — Alt form hyperlipoidemia.
  • hypoaeolian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E, with the final on A.
  • immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
  • indian meal moth — a small pyralid moth, Plodia interpunctella, whose larvae are an important pest of stored cereals.
  • j. random hacker — (jargon)   /J rand'm hak'r/ MIT jargon for a mythical figure; the archetypal hacker nerd. This may originally have been inspired by "J. Fred Muggs", a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days of TMRC, and was probably influenced by J. Presper Eckert (one of the co-inventors of the electronic computer). See random, Suzie COBOL.
  • leasehold reform — reform of the law relating to leasehold property
  • limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
  • limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • machado de assiz — Joaquim Maria [zhaw-ah-kim mah-ree-ah] /ˈʒɔ ɑ kɪm mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1839–1908, Brazilian writer.
  • machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
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