13-letter words containing h, e, m, i, o, n
- endotheliomas — Plural form of endothelioma.
- entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
- epiphenomenal — Being of secondary consequence to a causal chain of processes, but playing no causal role in the process of interest.Huettel, Function Magnetic Imaging, 2004.
- epiphenomenon — A secondary effect or byproduct that arises from but does not causally influence a process, in particular.
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- ethnomedicine — (medicine) traditional folk-medicine.
- ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
- eventide home — a retirement home
- exhibitionism — Extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention to oneself.
- fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
- fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
- fisher of men — an evangelist
- gilmore, john — John Gilmore
- haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- haemorrhaging — Present participle of haemorrhage.
- harmonic mean — the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers.
- harmonic tone — a tone produced by suppressing the fundamental tone and bringing into prominence one of its overtones.
- hatemongering — The behaviour of a hatemonger; the spreading of hatred.
- heart monitor — a machine that registers the activity of the heart
- heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
- helminthology — the scientific study of worms, especially of parasitic worms.
- hematogenesis — hematopoiesis.
- hematosalpinx — (medicine) A medical condition involving bleeding into the Fallopian tubes.
- hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
- hemp agrimony — a European composite plant, Eupatorium cannabinum, having dull purplish flowers.
- hexamethonium — a compound, C 10 H 24 N 2 , used in the treatment of severe hypertension to lower blood pressure and increase blood flow by blocking transmission of nerve impulses that constrict blood vessels.
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- home invasion — an act or instance of entering an occupied residence with the intent to commit a burglary or other crime.
- home shopping — buying items via tv or internet
- homeownership — a person who owns a home.
- homeschooling — a school set up in the home.
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- homing pigeon — any pigeon used to carry messages and equipped by training and breeding to fly home, sometimes from great distances.
- homogeneities — Plural form of homogeneity.
- homogenetical — of, involving or relating to homogeny
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- hydroxylamine — an unstable, weakly basic, crystalline compound, NH 3 O, used as a reducing agent, analytical reagent, and chemical intermediate.
- hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
- hyperromantic — extremely or excessively romantic
- hyponatraemia — a condition in which there is a low concentration of sodium in the blood
- iceman cometh — a play (1946) by Eugene O'Neill.
- ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
- immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
- immunotherapy — treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- inhomogeneity — lack of homogeneity.
- inhomogeneous — lack of homogeneity.