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16-letter words containing h, e, l, m, s

  • mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
  • muddleheadedness — The state of being muddle-headed.
  • nash equilibrium — (in game theory) a stable state of a system involving the interaction of two or more players in which no player can gain by a unilateral change of strategy if the strategies of the other players remain unchanged
  • non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • ophthalmoparesis — (medicine) A partial or complete paralysis of the extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.
  • overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • palmerston north — a city in New Zealand, in the S North Island on the Manawatu River. Pop: 78 100 (2004 est)
  • pascal's theorem — the theorem that the lines joining adjacent vertices of a hexagon intersect the same straight line if alternate vertices lie on two intersecting straight lines.
  • pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
  • phalansterianism — a system by which society would be reorganized into units comprising their own social and industrial elements; Fourierism.
  • phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
  • phlebothrombosis — the presence of a thrombus in a vein.
  • photoluminescent — luminescence induced by the absorption of infrared radiation, visible light, or ultraviolet radiation.
  • plainclothes man — a detective or police officer who wears civilian clothes while on duty
  • plumber's helper — plunger (def 3).
  • pseudohemophilia — a clotting disorder caused by abnormal factor VIII activity, and characterized by a prolonged bleeding time but without the delayed coagulation time of hemophilia.
  • re-establishment — the act or an instance of establishing.
  • recycling scheme — a scheme enabling the public to recycle waste
  • residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
  • rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • saint-barthelemy — (Saint Bartholomew; Saint Barts; Saint Barths) a resort island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands, part of the French department of Guadeloupe. 6900; 8 sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
  • schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
  • schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
  • schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
  • school committee — (in New Zealand) a parent group selected to support a primary school
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • sealyham terrier — one of a Welsh breed of small terriers having short legs, a docked tail, and a wiry, mostly white coat.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
  • selenomorphology — the study of the lunar surface and landscape
  • self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • settlement house — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
  • settlement-house — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
  • shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
  • shopping complex — a shopping centre
  • shuttle armature — a simple H-shaped armature used in small direct-current motors
  • shuttle movement — the movement of a component from one place to another and back to its original position
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
  • so help me (god) — I swear
  • sodium methylate — a white, free-flowing, flammable powder, CH 3 ONa, decomposed by water to sodium hydroxide and methyl alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
  • sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
  • spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
  • spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
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